Category: comic books

Bats

Via the incomparable Jolyon Yates:

p.1 – 2
p.3 – 4
p.5 – 6

story’s at Automata.

Cool thing about having somebody with Jolyon’s chops do this with a story? It’s that the story gets better. Artists, man, they got the eye, the pencil, and they know how to move across the page in a way we fiction writers only aspire to.

Hey, guess I’m not the only one to entertain this possibility:

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13th Night

13th Night centers around a colorful cast of college-aged characters visiting the First Folio on its tour to the University of Colorado Boulder. They get swept up into a mysterious and magical force that is wreaking havoc on the order, purpose, and sense of Shakespeare’s work. With their own lives in various degrees of peril, the youthful entourage calls on their knowledge of the Bard to set things right and preserve the First Folio so all may continue to enjoy it. Embe…

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Horror Comics Wrap-Up

Or, intro? Anyway, I had 750 words to sum up horror comics for NPR, since they kept coming up when we were curating the 100 Horror list. Was cool, trying to make everything fit. 

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Best of 2018 — halfway through

Every year when I cobble together some best-of-the-year list from half-remembered this and that, I always end up remembering stuff from the last few months instead of the whole year, and feeling like that’s all unfair. So, in an effort to work around that, and trusting that I actually come back and LOOK at this in five months, but mostly because I’m just now thinking of it, here’s my favorites so far:

Comic Book:

Exclusive preview: Jeff Lemire's Descender Volume 1: Tin ...

Everything here is just working so well: the wo…

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Best of 2018 so far—the July roundup

[ I keep forgetting to do these the day-of. So, at least this one’s the week-of . . . ]

The Qwillery BookCon 2018: Quirk Books SpotlightSpirit of Steamboat: A Walt Longmire Story Audiobook | Craig Johnson | Audible.com | Audible.co.uk Any Other Name Audiobook | Craig Johnson | Audible.comNew Solo Poster Strikes a Familiar Pose - IGN Wildling (2018) - Posters — The Movie Database (TMDb)Leigh Whannell's Upgrade Starring Logan Marshall-Green Gets Poster and NSFW Trailer - Dread Central    Amazon.com: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer ...Comic Book Review: Descender, Vol. 2 TP - Bounding Into Comics  Werewolves on the Moon: Versus Vampires #2 :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics

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Best of 2018 so far—the June roundup

[ late with this one, oops—been in California since the end of May, and am evidently not thinking much . . . ]

Justified DVD Release Date A Series of Unfortunate Events – Season 2 | Aviously Jon Hamm in “Stinker Lets Loose!” – Movie Mom The Rider Movie Review & Film Summary (2018) | Roger Ebert QUICK ENDING! Stephen King's The Outsider Sweepstakes

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