January 2011
4 posts
Committed: Deadpool MAX - Doing It Wrong
With a Lapham/Baker Deadpool MAX, my expectations were high, but it is possible that someone mixed up the contracts. Hiring Kyle Baker to write Deadpool MAX with David Lapham to draw it would make so much sense. Instead Lapham shows that he is more than capable of writing some seriously nasty stuff, but his humor is distinctly mean-spirited and Baker’s art only compounds the misery.
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Committed: “Director’s Cut” Comic Books
With all of the luxury, hard cover reprints of comic books, why is it so rare to see any involvement by the original authors? And why isn’t this more of a selling point, as it would be with movies when directors, writers and actors assemble to create a the “special features” on DVDs? As I begin to look at my books with a more critical eye, I can see that in many instances,...
Committed: Passing Periods, my favorite mini-comic
I’ve got a guilty secret within my guilty not-so-secret of comic book love and that is Joey Sayers’ hysterical mini-comic book; Passing Periods. This is one of those hand-stapled, photocopied, crappy little things, or at least that is all it appears to be on first glance, until you bother to read it and let the fun wash over you.
I’m all for comic book object fetish,...
Committed: Is Indie the New Mainstream?
Popular, successful comic book creators are often accused of being unsuccessful unless they make books for Marvel or DC, but these books are rarely the most lauded. Despite what some readers of the CBR Top 100 Comic Books of 2010 might think, mainstream acceptance of beautifully crafted comic books doesn’t translate to equivalent breakthroughs in the quality of superhero comic books.
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