Author Archives: Johnny Hall

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2023 Year in Review: Johnny Hall

By | Dec 29, 2023 | Columns

Like a snake eating its own tail we come to the end of the year, re-ingesting and reconsidering the books, artists, and moments in the comics world that most moved us, or made us think, or perhaps even better, gave us shelter from the world outside for a short little while. And what a year, […]

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Five Thoughts on Hawkeye‘s “Ronin”

By | Dec 17, 2021 | Television

In one of the most important episodes of any Phase Four MCU project, Clint becomes Ronin once again, Echo learns that there’s a rat in the TSM, Jacques Duquesne gets brought in by the police on suspicion of murder, and a character decides definitively they were born to be a superhero. All that, and that’s […]

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Five Thoughts on Hawkeye‘s “Echoes”

By | Dec 3, 2021 | Television

“I’m not a role model,” says Clint Barton towards the end of this week’s episode, and despite being known to the world as an Avenger, the group that just got done saving half of the population of the universe, audiences know that what Hawkeye the Elder is saying carries water. The MCU version of Barton […]

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“Monsters”

By | May 25, 2021 | Reviews

The story will sound familiar: a young man adrift in the world and unsure of his place in it agrees to join up with the U.S. military, only for scientists to use him as a guinea pig in the race to create the perfect Cold War soldier. Warping his body and mind beyond recognition, they […]

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“Post York”

By | Apr 23, 2021 | Reviews

There are several progenitors to James Romberger’s newest graphic novel, “Post York,” recently released by Dark Horse: the original Eisner nominated short story, Romberger’s son’s rap song of the same name, and the ever-present awareness of the devastating effects humanity has on the environment. Told in three vignettes, this expanded story depicts a harsh future […]

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“MADI: Once Upon A Time In The Future”

By | Mar 19, 2021 | Reviews

When Duncan Jones, the director of two sci-fi movies set in the same universe (2009’s Moon and 2018’s Mute) realized the conclusion to his “Mooniverse Trilogy” was just too epic in scale to obtain a budget to film it to his satisfaction, he turned to comics. Well, first he turned to the internet. On a […]

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“Please Don’t Step On My JNCO Jeans”

By | Feb 18, 2021 | Reviews

With “Please Don’t Step On My JNCO Jeans,” cartoonist Noah Van Sciver brings us yet again into his world- anxieties great and small, embarrassments subtle and overt, memories painful and endearing, in a collection of strips published in various local papers now curated into this one (slim) volume. For longtime fans of Van Sciver’s self-deprecating […]

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“The Eternaut 1969”

By | Jan 22, 2021 | Reviews

It is often a wonder to me how books find us at the right time, as if searching us out, right when we need to be reading it. In this instance, I blame the kismetic reissue of this powerful and politically charged sci-fi comic story squarely upon the shoulders of Fantagraphics heads Gary Groth and […]

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“Lon Chaney Speaks”

By | Nov 13, 2020 | Reviews

There are but a few people instrumental to the success of early Hollywood cinema to remain as discussed, or perhaps better said, to remain as ingrained in the culture of American film as the great Lon Chaney. Known the world over as “The Man of a Thousand Faces,” his versatility as a performer in the […]

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