Category: comic books
On Zombies
Excellent graphic for this one: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/brains-rotting-flesh-and-infection-zombie-101-with-an-expert-cu-professor
Read moreBats
Via the incomparable Jolyon Yates: 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…
Read moreBest of 2018 so far—the September roundup
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…
Read moreHorror 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…
Read moreBest of 2018 so far—the August roundup
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:
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Read moreBest 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 . . . ]
Read moreBest 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 . . . ]
Read moreThanos #spoiler
He’s Adrian Veidt with a cosmic version of the Redeker Plan, yeah? It’s a good build for a bad guy. I miss his old “I want to kill half the…
Read moreBest of 2018 so far—the May roundup
Death of the Fanboy
Had this stranded in a tab for weeks, finally cued it up just now. Good stuff: http://nerdsthatgeek.com/blogs/the-death-of-the-fanboy
Read moreComic Booking
Solid advice from Jason Starr. (good novelist, too) And, since I don’t have time right now to search up how to embed eleven tweets (“Moment?” “Storify?”) when they’re not self-grouped…
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