Author Archives: David Harper

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The Secret History of SHIELD

By | Nov 25, 2009 | News

Earlier in November, I thought it was curious that Jonathan Hickman had posted the following tweet given the current nature of the Marvel Universe. At this point, I simply refuse to type S.H.I.E.L.D. in my scripts. I’m not doing it any longer. Forget it. It was interesting in that SHIELD does not exist in the […]

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Small Press Spotlight: Terry Moore’s Echo

By | Nov 24, 2009 | Columns

This week on my Small Press Spotlight series, I have Terry Moore’s Echo as brought to us by his creator owned imprint Abstract Studio. This is the first creator owned imprint, creator owned release I’ve looked at here. Such is the life of Moore, one of the most renowned creators of the past couple decades […]

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Multiversity 101: Comic Book Literacy

By | Nov 23, 2009 | Longform

In this week’s edition of my industry analyzing column Multiversity 101, I wanted to take a look at two trends in comics: the increasing age of the average reader and the increasing legitimacy of using comic books as a tool to promote literacy and learning in schools. These two subjects, if properly managed by the […]

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Small Press Spotlight: Blankets

By | Nov 17, 2009 | Columns

In this week’s edition of my Small Press Spotlight series, I’m targeting one of the most critically lauded and popular graphic novels of the past decade: Craig Thompson’s Blankets. This title was released by Top Shelf Productions in 2003, and has since went on to win Harvey, Eisner and Ersatz awards for his writing, art, […]

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Kick-Ass Teaser Trailer Premiere

By | Nov 11, 2009 | News

Kick-AssTrailer Park | MySpace VideoBack in August, Matt posted a review of the script for Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s Kick-Ass. While his review wasn’t exactly positive, scripts can change and I’d be lying if I didn’t say the title it is based off of wasn’t entertaining. Today featured the […]

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Columns
Small Press Spotlight: Mouse Guard

By | Nov 10, 2009 | Columns

This week in our Small Press Spotlight series, I’ll be taking a look at Archaia Press’ and their highly touted release from David Petersen – Mouse Guard. Mouse Guard is an Eisner award winning series that truly came out of nowhere to take the comic world by storm in 2006. While it is highly esteemed, […]

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Fantastic Four for Free!

By | Nov 3, 2009 | News

As you can tell given our recent interview with series writer Jonathan Hickman and extremely effusive reviews from Matt and myself recently, we’re big, big fans of Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham and their current run on Fantastic Four. In many ways, it’s the best Fantastic Four run I’ve read ever in that the cosmic […]

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Small Press Spotlight: The Golem’s Mighty Swing

By | Nov 3, 2009 | Columns

This week on Small Press Spotlight, I’ll be looking at James Sturm The Golem’s Mighty Swing, a 2001 original graphic novel from Drawn and Quarterly. Drawn and Quarterly is a comic publisher out of Canada that actually is the biggest in Canada and really focuses on producing high quality graphic novels and comics. From what […]

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