Heroes Never Rust
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Heroes Never Rust #84: Watchmen, and Flashbacks
Heroes Never Rust #84 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Flashbacks Flashbacks are tricky. A story needs to move forward, not backward. But. Sometimes to move forward we have to move backward. Readers need information for certain scenes and characters to have resonance. At times, events that occurred before the story’s present are necessary. They may be Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #83: World Building in Watchmen
Heroes Never Rust #83 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: World Building Fictional stories take place in a fictional world. Even if that world is supposed to be our own, the story takes place in a world that does not exist. For a story to succeed, the reader must buy into the world. Obviously, the closer the Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #82: Epilogues: Your Last Shot
Heroes Never Rust #82 by Sean Ironman Epilogues: Your Last Shot The fourth and final issue of Nemesis features a great deal of violence as the police chief eventually overcomes and kills Nemesis. The villain dies with three pages remaining for the comic. These pages fast-forward years after the Nemesis encounter and acts as an Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #81: Personal Taste, or Bad Craft?
Heroes Never Rust #81 by Sean Ironman Personal Taste, or Bad Craft? If it has been unclear in my last two posts, I’ll come right out and say it here—I dislike Nemesis. I think it represents everything wrong with comics in the last ten years. It’s a comic consisting of shock after shock. So many Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #80: Ridiculousness in Fiction
Heroes Never Rust #80 by Sean Ironman Ridiculousness in Fiction As the story speeds along in the second issue of Nemesis, the situations get more and more over the top. That’s not necessarily bad, unless you wanted a different type of story. In the last few decades in comics, there’s been a push toward realism Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #79: Skip the Obvious
Heroes Never Rust #79 by Sean Ironman Skip the Obvious Two weeks ago, I met with an undergraduate student to discuss her thesis, a collection of essays. One of my suggestions for her essay about the sickness and eventual death of her grandfather was to skip the paragraph about how upset she was over his Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #78: Ink
Heroes Never Rust #78 by Sean Ironman Ink When discussing comics, many people, including myself, usually refer to the writer and the artist as the creators of the comic, but “artist” may not be the correct word. The term, to me, simplifies the process, as if the visual elements were the job of one person. Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #77: “Down” Time
Heroes Never Rust #77 by Sean Ironman “Down” Time The war in Europe winds down. Germans surrender. U.S. soldiers wait on the decision of whether they are heading home or heading to the war in the Pacific. Sergeant Brewer should be happy. He survived. As a soldier in the Hundred and First Airborne Division, he Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #76: Dodgin’ D-Day
Heroes Never Rust #76 by Sean Ironman Dodgin’ D-Day Garth Ennis’s and John Higgins’s War Story: D-Day Dodgers follows Second Lieutenant Ross, a British soldier joining up with B Company in Italy. The Western Front has begun with Normandy and the Allied Forces are gaining ground in France. The Russians are driving Germans back to Continue reading
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