January 2010
5 posts
Committed: Man-Hating Indie Comics
Recently I noticed something a little creepy, nothing groundbreaking, but it’s not good news, particularly for all you men out there. Nearly all of the American independent comic books that I’ve read, present the most degenerate and pathetic versions of men. Horrible, miserable, unhappy, lazy, stupid, selfish, unhealthy men. Men you do not want to meet. For some reason, these...
Committed: Comics without Capes
In talking to my American comic book reading friends, I’m beginning to see that my experience of comic books is pretty different from theirs. While they grew up watching superhero cartoons on TV and buying the superhero comics that went along with them, I didn’t have much access to either of those mediums so I took another route.
The first and only comic books I saw were the ones...
Committed: Byrne's Superman
In 1986, when John Byrne’s revamp of Superman came out, I was so excited. I was a teenager, and I suppose my taste was pretty cheesy at times. That’s my excuse anyway, because I know that once I had The Man of Steel miniseries in my sweaty little hands, he seemed to be so busy coming up with updated rationales for everything, that he skimped on any kind of character development or...
Committed: Introduction
There’s nothing cool or sexy about reading comics. I mean it, and I should know, I’ve been reading them all my life, since I could only understand the pictures and wonder what the hell the words meant (but when the comic books you’re reading are your dad’s stolen Fat Freddy’s Cat, not being able to read detracts nothing). Up until very recently, my comic book...
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish!
This is the last of my weekly columns for iFanboy. What started out as a six month experiment, has turned into a passion, and after a year and a half as a weekly columnist here, I’m excited to move outside of my comfort zone and start writing with some new people at Comics Should Be Good. It’s been an incredible journey and as I prepare to move on, I’ve been talking with my...
