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Friday Recommendation: Ghost World

By | Oct 26, 2012 | Columns

Daniel Clowes has already gotten some love here at Multiversity (you can check out Brian’s Friday Rec for “Wilson” over here), but I thought I’d add to Brian’s thoughts on one of Clowes’ earlier works, “Ghost World”. Like Brian, I encountered the book as a teenager and loved the bajeezus out of it — not […]

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Friday Recommendation: Dial H

By | Oct 19, 2012 | Columns

Here is a book that I talk about so much that it’s probably starting to get annoying. The problem is that I think that this book is going to get cancelled for the 5th or 6th wave of the DC Comics New 52. When that happens, a single tear will stream down my cheek, at […]

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Friday Recommendation: “I, Vampire”

By | Oct 12, 2012 | Columns

We are in the throes of New York Comic Con today and, when you take away all the craziness, photo ops, amazing parties, and cosplay, what all comic conventions really are boils down to this: they are places to learn more about comics. Whether it is by attending a panel, chatting with a creator, buying […]

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Friday Recommendation: Lucifer

By | Oct 5, 2012 | Columns

Let me talk to you about the Devil. Or, well, one of the various literary interpretations of the character. In the late 80s and early 90s, Neil Gaiman featured Lucifer in a few stories of his hit series “The Sandman.” Gaiman’s take on Lucifer was very much inspired by the tragic role in Milton’s Paradise […]

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Friday Recommendation: Proof

By | Sep 21, 2012 | Columns

I think we’re all inordinately attached to the stories that first attracted us to comics as a medium. And while I read my very first comics in trade (they were “Sandman” and “Watchmen”, of course) the first single issue I ever bought — and the first series I ever put on a pull list — […]

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Friday Recommendation: Transmetropolitan

By | Aug 24, 2012 | Columns

Nearly every comic creator, no matter how diverse their output, has a work that the comics-reading public has labeled as their defining work; maybe not their best, but the one that readers associate as the most indicative of that creator’s style. For Grant Morrison, it’s “The Invisibles,” for Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips it’s “Criminal,” […]

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Friday Recommendation: The Invisibles

By | Aug 17, 2012 | Columns

This week saw the release of the meganormous “Invisibles” omnibus from Vertigo Comics, collecting the entire series in one giant volume. A tremendous epic from Grant Morrison and a bevy of talented artists, it’s a highly influential and incredibly important series within the comic medium. Telling a wide-spanning tale of a group of anarchists on […]

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Friday Recommendation: Black Hole

By | Aug 10, 2012 | Columns

It’s so hard to know where to start, when you’re talking about a book like “Black Hole”. Charles Burns’s opus has garnered enough of a following in its collected form that you’ll find it on a lot of top ten lists, and yet it still manages to be a slightly obscure title, something that maybe […]

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