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Author: Koom Kankesan

Books Reviews 

Alan Moore Book Club: Illuminations: “And At The Last, Just to Be Done With Silence”

The last story in Illuminations, “And at the Last, Just to Be Done With Silence”, is a mere ten pages

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December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 Koom Kankesan 539 Views Alan Moore, Illuminations
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’: “American Light: An Appreciation”

What are we to make of this pastiche that comes right after the story “What We Can Know About Thunderman”,

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December 23, 2022December 22, 2022 Koom Kankesan 744 Views Alan Moore, Illuminations
Comics Reviews 

Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ – Chapter 7

Daredevil #233. As soon as the character Nuke gets mentioned, someone will inevitably say “give me a red.” It seems

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December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 Koom Kankesan 398 Views Daredevil #233, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ – Chapter 6

Daredevil #232. There are many fantastic individual elements in this issue including Karen’s struggle to kick her habit and her

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December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 Koom Kankesan 411 Views Daredevil #232, Daredevil: Born Again, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller
Books Reviews 

Alan Moore Book Club: Illuminations: What We Can Know About Thunderman

The longest story in Illuminations, at 241 pages, ‘What We Can Know About Thunderman’, is a savage satire of the

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December 9, 2022December 8, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1359 Views
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’: Chapter 5

Daredevil #231. This issue wraps up the main arc of the Born Again trade paperback. There are still a couple

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December 7, 2022December 6, 2022 Koom Kankesan 464 Views Daredevil #231, Daredevil: Born Again, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ – Chapter 4

Daredevil #230. This issue’s cover is one of my favourites. It highlights Ben Urich’s struggle to stand up with dignity

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December 4, 2022December 3, 2022 Koom Kankesan 414 Views Daredevil #230, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller
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Christmas Book Club – ‘Daredevil: Born Again: Interregnum’

While discussing Daredevil: Born Again, it might be worth thinking about what might have been. Born Again isn’t the first

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December 2, 2022December 1, 2022 Koom Kankesan 444 Views Daredevil: Born Again, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Chapter 3

Daredevil #229. I read in an interview somewhere a long time ago that someone gave Frank Miller a copy of

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December 1, 2022November 30, 2022 Koom Kankesan 496 Views Daredevil #229, Daredevil: Born Again, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Chapter 2

Daredevil #228. David Mazzucchelli’s partner Richmond Lewis colours this issue though Mazzucchelli is credited in the original printing. I’m not

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November 29, 2022November 28, 2022 Koom Kankesan 502 Views Daredevil #228, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Chapter 1

Frank Miller experienced a very successful and significant run as artist on Daredevil from issue 158 to 191. With Daredevil

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November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 Koom Kankesan 535 Views Daredevil, Daredevil: Born Again, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller, Marvel Comics, the man without fear
Books Reviews 

Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’: “Illuminations”

The sixth entry in the book, ‘Illuminations’, at eighteen pages long, is the short story which also bears the same

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November 9, 2022November 8, 2022 Koom Kankesan 683 Views
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’: “The Improbably Complex High-Energy State”

The fifth entry in the book, “The Improbably Complex High-Energy State”, at thirty-eight pages long, is a playful but ultimately

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November 1, 2022October 31, 2022 Koom Kankesan 911 Views Alan Moore, Illuminations
Books 

Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – “Cold Reading”

The fourth entry in Illuminations by Alan Moore, “Cold Reading”, is eighteen pages long and was originally published in the

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October 26, 2022October 25, 2022 Koom Kankesan 817 Views Alan Moore, Illuminations
Books Reviews 

Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – Location, Location, Location

The third entry in Moore’s collection of short stories Illuminations, “Location, Location, Location”, is thirty-six pages long and deals with

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October 25, 2022October 24, 2022 Koom Kankesan 806 Views Alan Moore, Illuminations
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – Not Even Legend

The reader surmises that the stories in this collection might not be presented in the order in which they were

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October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1023 Views Alan Moore, Illuminations
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – Hypothetical Lizard

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October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1081 Views Alan Moore, Illuminations
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‘Queen Camilla’ By Sue Townsend Revisited

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October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Koom Kankesan 635 Views Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend, The Queen and I
Film 

‘The Woman King’ Inspires A Discussion

The Woman King, Gina Prince-Blythewood‘s female-driven film about the Agojie, woman warriors who were part of the Dahomey kingdom (now

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October 2, 2022October 2, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1316 Views
Comics Reviews 

Review: Noah Van Sciver’s ‘As a Cartoonist’

Noah Van Sciver’s new book from Fantagraphics, As a Cartoonist, is a miscellany of short pieces chronicling Van Sciver’s personal

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July 27, 2022July 26, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1002 Views As a Cartoonist, Noah Van Sciver
Comics Conventions 

Toronto Comic Art Festival 2022 In Photos

The first in person TCAF (since the 2019 show) brought people out in strong numbers. Here are photos of what

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June 19, 2022June 19, 2022 Koom Kankesan 980 Views Toronto Comic Art Festival 2022
Comics Events 

TCAF 2022: Photos From The Academic Symposium

The Tornoto Comics Arts Festival academic symposium featured talks by academics researching topics related to comics. Some of these concerns

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June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 Koom Kankesan 848 Views
Comics Conventions Events 

Toronto Comics Art Festival 2022: Word Balloon Academy

Friday, June 17th (before the Toronto Comics Art Festival kickoff panel in the Toronto Reference Library) saw a number of daytime

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June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 Koom Kankesan 744 Views TCAF 2022
Comics Events 

Commentary: On Anticipating TCAF

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) is just a week away. This will be the first in-person festival TCAF has

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June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1042 Views Drawn & Quarterly, TCAF, TCAF 2022
Film Reviews 

Film Review: ‘The Northman’

The Northman, Robert Eggers’ epic new period piece should make fans of his The Witch who subsequently hated his The

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April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1584 Views Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Robert Eggers, The Northman, Willem Dafoe
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Review: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

Everything Everywhere All At Once, the new film by The Daniels (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) is easily the most

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April 13, 2022April 13, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1313 Views Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All At Once, James Hong, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu
Film Reviews 

Film Review: HBO’s ‘Scenes From A Marriage’

Scenes From A Marriage, Hagai Levi’s reimagining of Ingmar Bergman’s mini series of the same name, is easily the best

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March 28, 2022March 27, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1033 Views Erland Josephson, Hagai Levi, Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Scenes From A Marriage
Film Reviews 

Film Review: ‘Belfast’

Belfast, the film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, is told from the viewpoint of a nine year old working

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March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1189 Views Belfast, Kenneth Branagh.
Comics Conventions 

The Toronto Comicon: Day Two

Saturday, March 19th, 2022, at the Toronto Comicon felt like a full event. The weather was damp and drizzly and

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March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1432 Views Toronto Comic Con
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Review: The Toronto Comicon 2022

After almost three years of not attending a large comic convention, I went to the Toronto Comicon today and walked

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March 19, 2022March 19, 2022 Koom Kankesan 2343 Views Jim Shooter, Pat Broderick, The Toronto Comicon 2022, Tom Grummett
Film 

Film Review: ‘After Yang’

After Yang is a low key sci-fi drama directed by Kogonada. It stars Colin Farrell as Jake, a husband and

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March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 Koom Kankesan 1156 Views After Yang, Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Kogonada, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Sarita Choudhury
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