Grant Morrison
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #295: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 15
Once again, I’m writing this article on the precipice of election day and, just like before, it feels like an exercise in routine. I’m reviewing the menu on the Hindenburg on the fifth of May kind of anxiety, you know? And yet, I still need to sift through my pile of comics, some of which Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #287: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 8
Digging through my pile of finished series that I’ve yet to actually read has revealed a few things thus far. One of those is that I’ve become so good at putting off reading some of these series that they’ve survived two separate house moves between getting them and actually sitting down to read them. The Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #49: Is Gud Dog?
Heroes Never Rust #49 by Sean Ironman Is Gud Dog? To me, the comics medium is my favorite medium for stories. I like movies. I like TV. Prose. Poetry. Music. I like stories, but I love comics. One of the reasons I love comics is that I feel artists can do more in a comic Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #40: All Will Be Well
Heroes Never Rust #40 by Sean Ironman All Will Be Well The riot portion of the “Riot at Xavier’s” storyline has yet to begin. New X-Men #136 ends with Quentin Quire shouting “Riot!” into a bullhorn on Open Day, a day Xavier invited humans to the school. A sort-of Open House. But, except for the Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #39: Kids
Heroes Never Rust #39 by Sean Ironman Kids The cover to New X-Men #135 says it all. The X-Men (Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, and Xorn), all teachers at Xavier’s Institute for Higher Learning, stand around helplessly, each looking at another member of the team for an answer. Newspaper articles make Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #38: The Next Generation
Heroes Never Rust #38 by Sean Ironman The Next Generation I love the X-Men. No matter how long it’s been since I’ve read new comics, when I come back, I read X-Men comics. I follow them even when I’m not reading comics. One of the reasons I like them is that they aren’t just fighting Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #10: Grant Morrison’s Animal Man
Heroes Never Rust #10 by Sean Ironman Grant Morrison’s Animal Man Neil Adams, one of the comics’ greatest artists, once said, “There are no bad characters, only bad writers.” After reading comics nearly my whole life, I not only have to agree with Adams, but I don’t even understand how someone could argue otherwise. When Continue reading
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