Deconstructing Comics #780 (Flashback): Jim Shooter Interview
FLASHBACK! Jim Shooter, who was Marvel Editor-in-Chief from 1978 to 1987, passed away on June 30th. He wrote a number of
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Deconstructing Comics #847: ‘Angel And The Ape’ — Forgotten, But Not Gone
In the 1960s, both Marvel and DC tried publishing humor books, often in a style reminiscent of MAD Magazine. One
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Deconstructing Comics #846: Pow! Crack! Breaking Down Comics Sound Effects
[ POW! ZAP! Comics may not be for kids anymore, but they still have sound effects! Our own Patrick Ijima-Washburn noticed
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Deconstructing Comics #845: Jack Kirby’s ‘Cap And Falcon’ #209-211: An Uncle Sam Person
While the last three issues of Captain America and the Falcon we looked at were rather underwhelming, issues 209 to 211
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Deconstructing Comics #843: The Fantastic Four On Film — ‘Fant4stic’ (2015) Pt 2
We conclude our look at 2015’s Fant4stic, directed by Josh Trank. Trank’s behavior on the set (and on Twitter) have been
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Deconstructing Comics #842: Struggling With Kit Anderson’s ‘Second Shift’
After the (connected) short stories of Safer Places, Kit Anderson‘s new book is a full-on graphic novel called Second Shift (again
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Deconstructing Comics #840: Joe Sacco’s Books On The Middle East
Joe Sacco has been covering the Israel-Palestine conflict in varying forms since 1991: first in Palestine, then in Footnotes in
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Deconstructing Comics #385 (Flashback): The Legacy Of ‘Starman’
FLASHBACK! The 1990s DC series Starman is one of comicdom’s most fondly remembered series. Interestingly, says series author James Robinson,
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Critiquing Comics #243: ‘Fables Of Fear’ And ‘Black Plastic’
Fables of Fear is an anthology horror title by Karl Brandt and David Parsons. Tim and Adam discuss; there are
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Deconstructing Comics #559 (Flashback): Drawn & Quarterly And Canadian Comics
FLASHBACK! This week a wide-ranging discussion between two Canadians, Koom and Ian, about comics in Canada. The talk centers on Montreal-based
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Deconstructing Comics #210 (Flashback): Jillian Tamaki Interview
FLASHBACK! Skim is a coming-of-age graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki, and drawn by her cousin Jillian Tamaki. Jillian works primarily
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Deconstructing Comics #839: The Fantastic Four On Film — ‘Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer’ (2007)
This week we look at the movie that was based on the “Galactus Trilogy” of Fantastic Four #48-50, Fantastic Four: Rise of
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Deconstructing Comics #838: ‘The Fantastic Four’ On Film — The Galactus Trilogy
One of the most famous Fantastic Four stories is the “Galactus Trilogy” from Fantastic Four #48-50 in 1966. This story has
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Deconstructing Comics #837: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America’ #206-208 — The Tiger, The Swine … And The Fish
When Steve and Sam foil an attempt by police from south of the border to arrest their friendly waiter, the
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Deconstructing Comics #836: ‘Clyde Fans’ Reviewed By Two Fans
In Clyde Fans by Seth, two brothers run a fan company for fifty years. One might expect it to be prosaic,
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Deconstructing Comics #835: ‘Raised By Ghosts’ — A Time Capsule Relevant To Anyone Who’s Been A Teen
Briana Loewinsohn, who got a lot of praise two years back for her graphic memoir Ephemera, is back with a
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Deconstructing Comics #834: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America And The Falcon’ Vs A Bodybuilding Corpse
What’s that Kirby Crackle octopus chasing Cap and Falcon? And didn’t it used to be an oddly muscular, bald (naturally) corpse?
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Deconstructing Comics #833: Jack Kirby’s ‘Cap And Falcon’ #201-203 — Who Are “The Night People”?
The Night People are looking for a superhero. But who are the Night People? Where do they come from? And what
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Deconstructing Comics #831: The Fantastic Four On Film — ‘Fantastic Four’ (2005) Pt 2
While the 2005 film Fantastic Four gives us, debatably, a well-cast group of heroes, with plenty of comics-accurate details, the script
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Critiquing Comics #242: ‘The Star Tide Shores’ Vol. 1
The Star Tide Shores is an action space adventure comic that isn’t afraid to get a little deeper emotionally than,
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Deconstructing Comics #830: The Fantastic Four On Film — ‘Fantastic Four’ (2005) Pt 1
After the fiasco of the 1994 unreleased Fantastic Four movie, development proceeded on a big-budget FF film, which finally hit theaters
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Deconstructing Comics #829: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles’
Captain America was the obvious choice of a character to help Marvel celebrate the USA’s bicentennial in 1976. The job
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Deconstructing Comics #828: Japan’s Mythical “Oni” In Manga
Oni are mythical monsters similar to the ogres of Western tradition. Like many of the legendary Japanese creatures, their characteristics
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Deconstructing Comics #827: ‘Cross Game’ Omnibus 2 — Subtle Shifts
The second omnibus volume of Mitsuru Adachi‘s Cross Game focuses largely on a scrimmage between the varsity team and the
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Deconstructing Comics #826: Hugh D’Andrade’s ‘The Murder Next Door’ — Your Trauma Is Your Trauma
When Hugh D’Andrade was ten years old, his next door neighbor was mysteriously murdered, and he saw the body. In his
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Deconstructing Comics #825: Brad Guigar Talks Promoting Your Webcomic, Even (Especially?) If It’s NSFW
Brad Guigar, creator of Evil Inc., has been putting his comics on the Web for over 20 years, and this
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Deconstructing Comics Special: Tim Catches Up with the MCU — ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’
Tim is now completely caught up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Mulele joins him to discuss the most recently released
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Critiquing Comics #241: ‘The Shapes’ #4: El Puro
Samuel Edme‘s comic The Shapes is … a bit hard to pin down. It looks like notebook scribblings, it has its
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Deconstructing Comics #823: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ #17-19 — Lots O’ Ikaris (Or Ikarus?)
We’ve reached the end of Jack Kirby‘s Eternals series. Sure, it was a weird series, but introducing a Hulk robot apparently
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Deconstructing Comics #822: The Fantastic Four On Film — ‘The Fantastic Four’ (1994), Why Wasn’t The Film Released? (Part Two)
The 1994 film The Fantastic Four seems to have been made with the expectation, at least from producer Roger Corman on
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Deconstructing Comics #821: The Fantastic Four On Film — ‘The Fantastic Four’ (1994), A Roger Corman Production (Part One)
By the early 1990s, Superman and Batman were blockbuster movie franchises, but Marvel had yet to find a way to
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