Comic Books

January 23, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #4: The Middle

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #4 by Drew Barth The Middle It’s hard to talk about comics without mentioning specific runs of things. Walt Simonson’s run on Thor, Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette’s Swamp Thing, Paul Cornell and Pete Wood’s Action Comics, etc. “Runs” as they’re typically known are portions of longer running… Continue reading

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Aquaman, Catwoman, David Messina, Garry Brown, Genevieve Valentine, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Robson Rocha

January 18, 2019

The Curator of Schlock #257: Brightburn Trailer

The Curator of Schlock #257 by Jeff Shuster Brightburn Trailer Leave Superman alone. Just leave him alone. I don’t typically review trailers. What’s in a trailer, honestly? False advertising? Sure. Remember how excited you got after watching the trailer for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace? Did that movie live up to the trailer? No.… Continue reading

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January 16, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #3: JUMP for Me

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #3 by Drew Barth JUMP for Me My first major foray into print comics was with Shonen Jumpwhen I was about twelve years old. It wasn’t hard to tempt me with the first issue of it I saw at a CVS—the Yu-Gi-Ohcover and free card on the inside… Continue reading

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January 11, 2019

The Curator of Schlock #256: Venom

The Curator of Schlock #256 by Jeff Shuster Venom The villain is the hero. In other news, 2 +2 = 3 because Sony says so! I think I have a movie pitch I’d like to send over to the brass over at Sony Pictures: Snickers: The Movie. I think there’s a lot of potential in this… Continue reading

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January 9, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #2: Guess I’ll DIE

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #2 by Drew Barth Guess I’ll DIE First issues are weird things. They’re thesis statements on a series; a contract with the reader that assures them the three to five dollars they paid for that first issue was worth it; a firm artistic statement on what this creative… Continue reading

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A Comic Shop, DIE, Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans

January 2, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #1: New Year

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #1 by Drew Barth New Year 2019 is already breathing down our necks and I feel the fear. So that means it’s time to dump myself headlong into comics to displace the existential dread of the next twelve months in global warming reporting. Ha. Ha. Ha. Anyway. 2019… Continue reading

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December 15, 2018

Episode 345: Chip Kidd!

Episode 345 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I share a conversation I had with author, editor, comic book fan, and book designer Chip Kidd, from about 40 feet away from Biscayne Bay. We spoke about the DC/Marvel… Continue reading

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December 4, 2018

Buzzed Books #82: Flavor

Buzzed Books #82 by Drew Barth Joseph Keatinge and Wook Jin Clark’s Flavor Vol. 1 (Collects Issues 1-6) “Culinary consultant” may be my favorite thing I’ve seen in a comic credits page in a while. Seeing a culinary consultant, specifically Ali Bouzari, on a credits page in a comic that is about food in all… Continue reading

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November 13, 2018

Buzzed Books #79: Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix

Buzzed Books #79 by Drew Barth Rich Tommaso’s Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix (Collects Issues 1-4) Let’s talk about adventure comics. While DC Comics published their own, titled Adventure Comics in kind with Action and Detective, the realm of adventure comics as a genre is uniquely European. Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, the various works of Jacques… Continue reading

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October 22, 2018

Pensive Prowler #24: Justice League of Steppenwolf

Pensive Prowler #24 by Dmetri Kakmi Justice League of Steppenwolf The following does not constitute a film review of Justice League. More a running commentary as my befuddle mind tried to make sense of the movie through an alcoholic haze. As the movie begins (I can’t put my finger on what’s wrong with the title),… Continue reading

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