Tag: comics

• Notes on The Sandman: Act II (Eps. 12-21) (November 20, 2021)

  "A Game of You" and four short stories, and that's all for now.

• Notes on The Sandman: Act II (Eps. 1-11) (November 11, 2021)

  Overall observations, "Season of Mists", and three "Distant Mirrors" stories.

• Notes on Audible’s The Sandman (Eps. 17-20) (October 30, 2021)

  Covering the "Dream Country" stories.

• Notes on Audible’s The Sandman (Eps. 10-16) (October 19, 2021)

  Covering "The Doll's House".

• Notes on Audible’s The Sandman (Eps. 1-9) (October 17, 2021)

  General observations, "More than Rubies", and the first three one-issue stories.

• Oh wow, a radio-play adaptation of The Sandman (October 6, 2021)

  Nobody told me about this! But, then, who would have?

• I read Providence (September 26, 2021)

  Enjoyed this 12-issue Lovecraft-remix comic, set throughout my dearly loved and much-missed New England.

• Pleasant thoughts about Spider-Man (January 15, 2021)

  I bought some groceries, and I thought about Spider-Man.

• Eulogy for a superhero (September 17, 2020)

  I plan to read this tomorrow afternoon, as my family bids a pandemic-delayed farewell to my brother Pete, who died in January.

• Three more comics I’ve read (November 2019) (November 27, 2019)

  I continue to read lots of comics during pieces of downtime during a very demanding month. Here are my thoughts on three more titles I've enjoyed lately.

• I’ve been reading Nexus (November 23, 2019)

  Thoughts on the reading the earliest issues of Baron and Rude's "Nexus" as e-comics while grinding through a relocation to New York City.

• I read Going into Town (November 4, 2019)

  I took both delight and great comfort from Roz Chast's newcomer-oriented guide to New York City.

• Investigations into a present but silent Garfield (May 16, 2019)

  I accidentally led a group research project into a dimly remembered but superior predecessor to "Garfield Minus Garfield".

• I read Little Teeth (April 14, 2019)

  I enjoyed this low-key but hilarious comic book about queer-poly funny animals in the Pacific Northwest experiencing drama.

• Finding Beanworld in Providence (March 10, 2019)

  On the realization that I'd been treating my city of residence more like a hostel than a home, and my resolution to fix that.

• I am reading Wuthering Heights (and works adjacent) (December 18, 2018)

  Not even halfway into Emily Brontë's classic novel of horrible people skulking about the moors, and I feel overwhelmed by all the related treasures I've discovered.

• I read The Book of the New Sun (and re-read From Hell) (July 21, 2018)

  I found Gene Wolfe's epic SF novel from the early 1980s a rewarding read, despite (and, okay, partially because of) its somewhat dated presentation of female characters.

• I read American Flagg!: Hard Times (October 15, 2017)

  Howard Chaykin's Reagan-era comix chronicle imagining a near-future United States in dire trouble.

• I read Drop-Out (September 6, 2017)

  I enjoyed this disturbing but hopeful and quirkily beautiful webcomic by gray Folie, which recently concluded its two-year-long story.

• I read: Ruins
  (September 12, 2016)

  Graphic novel by Peter Kuper, discovered by my partner at Newport Public Library. A swift and pleasant read, with a thin story but a lush depiction of finding oneself falling in love with an initially foreign culture, ever deeper, by layers.

• I read: The Imitation Game
  (August 14, 2016)

  At the time of this writing I do not know how this comic book by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis relates to the film of the same title, and the same subject matter — a (somewhat fictionalized) biography of Alan Turing. The comic has a copyright date of 2016, which seems to preclude the possibility that latter adapts the former. I see that the words “comic” and “graphic” do not appear on the film’s Wikipedia page, and the book made no acknowledgment in the other direction. I avoid contaminating my thoughts about media I blog about here until the blogging’s done, so I’ll leave it as a curious coincidence for now.

• I read: Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon
  (April 11, 2015)

  Requested this collection of the first five issues of Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye comic book (plus a story from Young Avengers for salt) via public interlibrary loan — a comic-book first for me. Motivation came from my partner’s newly kindled love for all things Marvel via the MCU, and my recollection of praise for this volume when it first appeared in 2013, as well as my loving the stylish cover art.

• I read: _Poorcraft_
  (March 25, 2015)

  I purchased Poorcraft: The Funnybook Fundamentals of Living Well on Less as a DRM-free, five-dollar PDF after a friend posted one of its panels on Twitter. I fell instantly in love with Diana Nock’s artwork, with rubbery, noodly characters influenced as much by pre-war American animation as by the cartoons of our post- Spongebob present.