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Friday Recommendation: Captain Marvel

By | Feb 1, 2013 | Columns

Hello there, reader. Today I’d like to talk to you about a book called “Captain Marvel.” Lets start with this note: one of my favorite comic characters is Carol Danvers. I don’t think I can fully explain why, although it might have to do with her being a cat lover like myself. A more serious […]

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Friday Recommendation: Repulse

By | Jan 18, 2013 | Columns

There are some comics out there that you can only recommend with some reservations, and I’m happy to say that “Repulse” from Szymon Kudranski and Image Comics is one of them. First of all, you should read it in one sitting. It’s 72 pages, so not a big deal. Second of all, you should read […]

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Friday Recommendation: McSweeney’s #13

By | Dec 14, 2012 | Columns

The purpose of any anthology, to my mind, is to introduce the reader to material he or she may not have encountered otherwise, usually by grouping submissions around a theme. Here, in the thirteenth issue of the literary quarterly McSweeney’s, the theme is simply comics, with Chris Ware acting as editor; and as you can […]

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Friday Recommendation: I Kill Giants

By | Nov 16, 2012 | Columns

It is honestly difficult for me to write a “review” of Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura’s “I Kill Giants.” After all, the difference between an objective review and, say, commentary is that word “objective” — and I, unfortunately, cannot be objective about the masterwork that is “I Kill Giants.” Why, you ask? Because it […]

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Friday Recommendation: Bucko

By | Nov 9, 2012 | Columns

You know how, when you go to an interview for a job but you get sick because you were drinking while prepping for a threesome you didn’t end up having anyway, and then you have to run to the restroom only to find a dead body, but you have to go to the bathroom so […]

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