March 2010
5 posts
Committed: Event Banner Envy
There’s a dilution of the bold and uncompromising design of comic books, and it is the event banner. Last year there were event banners scattered across the face of nearly every DC title, and they were a mess.
Over the last 4 days, I have alphabetized an entire year of DC comic books. Not my own meager collection you understand, but an entire comic shop full of them. I volunteered to help my...
Committed: Comics are Better than Psychoanalysis
The other day I finished reading the first trade paperback of Phonogram (Rue Britannia.) It has this interesting ending which got me thinking about how comics help us to grow and keep moving forward, even when we’re unaware of it. The protagonist wraps up everything, pretty much, then decides to tie up one final loose end. He has to take a ghost of a girl’s memories and help that...
Committed: ECCC: Mr. Crowley goes to Oz
I’ve come to the conclusion that people are attending cons wrong. At least I think that must be the problem, since they find them so very draining. People I know prepare for comic conventions as if they are prepping for the Iditarod, rather than a relaxing weekend with like-minded people.
Growing up in Europe, we’d make fun of the Americans and the way they’d go on...
Committed: Kick-Ass and Why Violence is a Feminist...
Do you worry about your daughter growing up feeling weak, ineffectual, powerless, and generally having less options in life than her male counterparts? Men are still more successful in many industries, and the changes in the status quo have created a number of social areas in which men (often unconsciously) will strive to use language and aggressive behavior to make women feel excluded,...
Committed: Different Issues with Back Issues, Pt 2
Continuing the epic forage through my childhood comic book collection, moving into the realm of comix. Once I’d browsed and reminisced through my superhero comics to my hearts content, I moved on to the darker, more mysterious contents of the remaining boxes. Here I had apparently separated out my less heroic comics into their own looming piles. I can only imagine that I somehow sensed...
