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Heroes Never Rust #58: Brutality
Heroes Never Rust #58 by Sean Ironman Brutality Fight sequences can be difficult in comics, in really any medium. What do you show? How long should it last? How should it be paced? How should the characters fight? How much detail in the injuries is shown? And there are many more questions to consider. Unfortunately, superhero… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #13: Amy Zhang’s Falling Into Place
Buzzed Books #13 by Leslie Salas Amy Zhang’s Falling Into Place Falling Into Place centers on the most popular junior at Meridian high school, Liz Emerson, and her choice to practice the laws of physics by driving her Mercedes off an icy road. Liz’s story unfolds in braided non-chronological storytelling, bouncing between an unlikely narrator’s… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas # 58: What We Talk About When We Talk About Bugs
In Boozo Veritas # 58 by Teege Braune What We Talk About When We Talk About Bugs Last night I dreamed my home was infested by large, yellow centipedes each about four inches long. They seemed to be hiding in every crevice and nook as if materializing from the very dirt and mold, betraying no discernible… Continue reading
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Episode 116: Stephen Corey!
Episode 116 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 interview Stephen Corey, Editor-in-Chief of The Georgia Review, Plus August Evans writes about Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Margaret Atwood if the first entrant into the Future Library Project, with… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #12: King John
Shakespearing #12 by David Foley King John Poor John. Nobody likes him. In The Lion in Winter, he’s portrayed as a pimply, mouth-breathing lout; he’s the villain to Richard Lionheart’s hero in Ivanhoe; and nobody seems to think much of the play Shakespeare wrote about him. Titus Andronicus gets more love. This is strange, because… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #55: Lupin the 3rd
The Curator of Schlock #55 by Jeff Shuster Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo Okay, you Japanese animation fans, never let it be said that The Curator of Schlock doesn’t provide his readers with what they want. First I want to point out that you younglings probably can’t appreciate just how good you have it when… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #57: Paneling
Heroes Never Rust #57 by Sean Ironman Paneling Ten years ago, I took a Digital Rhetorics course in college. The professor made it a comics class. We spent the semester studying and making comics. When it came to creating our own comics, we were told to draw a grid of panels on a page and… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #57: RIP Bar-BQ-Bar
In Boozo Veritas #57 by Teege Braune RIP Bar-BQ-Bar I was thinking about doing a piece for Labor Day about William Blake’s idea of the creative process as a form of labor embodied by the tension and perfect balance between inspiration personified by Urthona (i.e. the Holy Spirit) and reason personified by Urizen (i.e. Satan) and… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #11: Richard II
Shakespearing #11 by David Foley Richard II I tried, as I re-read Richard II, to uncover why the play so fascinated me as a teenager. Some of the first Shakespearean speeches I memorized were from Richard II. With a couple of drinks in me, I can still give a quite moving rendition of the “sad… Continue reading
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Episode 115: Mailbag 6 (The Sweet Cheat Gone)
Episode 115 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Clint Peters writes about how reading Montaigne changed his life. NOTES Check out David James Poissant’s wonderful story collection, The Heaven of Animals.… Continue reading
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