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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Deconstructing Comics #820: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ #14-16 — The Coming Of … The Editor!
Jack Kirby‘s The Eternals was not a conventional superhero book. It didn’t even seem to take place in the Marvel
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Deconstructing Comics #819: We Catch Up With ‘The Re-Up’ And ‘Amazing Tales’
This week we catch up with the work of two DCP favorites: Chad Bilyeu and David Dye! Chad’s series, The
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Deconstructing Comics #818 — Requiems: ‘Ghost Band’ And ‘Grimm’s Assistant’
If you’ve ever felt like your city left you before you left your city, Jason McNamara‘s Ghost Band is for you.
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ (2019)
Tim gets ever closer to catching up with the MCU! Tim and Mulele discuss Avengers: Endgame‘s time-travel explanation (and problems),
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Deconstructing Comics #437 (Flashback): ‘Real’ Is A Slam Dunk
FLASHBACK! Sports have rarely been subject matter for comics in the US; perhaps comics’ inherent static-ness has seemed antithetical to an
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Deconstructing Comics #817: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ 1977 Annual + #13 — Fun Stories With Few Eternals
We left the Eternals joined together in the Unimind. The 1977 Annual doesn’t clearly fit into continuity, but features only
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Deconstructing Comics #816″ Chester Brown Interview — ‘Paying For It’ The Movie
Chester Brown’s work has come up on this show a number of times over the years. We’ve discussed Ed the
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Deconstructing Comics #593 (Flashback): Reading ‘Nancy’ — Plus ‘Cat And Mouse’!
FLASHBACK! A comic strip gag can be a deceptively simple thing. Once you take it apart — “deconstruct” it, one
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Critiquing Comics #239: ‘Let’s Go, Coco’ And ‘Digital Bardos’
What does an 11-year-old do when her “only friend” moves away? In Coco Fox‘s “sorta” memoir, Let’s Go, Coco, she
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Deconstructing Comics #338 (Flashback): Everything’s ‘Archie’!
FLASHBACK! It’s been more than 70 years now since the debut of Archie comics, featuring (though not quite from the
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Deconstructing Comics #815: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ #9-12 — Judging Books By Their Covers
Eternals are only human, I guess! In Eternals #9-12, many of the Eternals exhibit a segregationist attitude toward the Deviants,
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Deconstructing Comics #134 (Flashback): ‘The R. Crumb Handbook’
FLASHBACK! A then-recent R. Crumb compilation is reviewed by a Crumb connoisseur (Kumar) and a Crumb newbie (Tim). The book
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Critiquing Comics #238: ‘Jane Jet’ And ‘The Fog Within’
Once again we take a look at some comics submitted by their creators; we talk about what we liked about
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Deconstructing Comics #591 (Flashback): ‘Promethea’ — A Mind-Bending, Life-Changing Comic
FLASHBACK! While Alan Moore and J.H. Williams’ Promethea, published from 1999 to 2005, is not one of Moore’s most remembered
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Deconstructing Comics #296 (Flashback): ‘Little Orphan Annie’
FLASHBACK! Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie debuted in 1924 and was a big success. FDR having not yet turned him
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Captain Marvel’
Back in Critiquing Comics 154, Tim and Mulele discussed 2019’s Captain Marvel; Tim enjoyed it, Mulele did not. Now that we’ve
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Deconstructing Comics #598 (Flashback): Dylan Horrocks Looks Back At ‘Hicksville’
FLASHBACK! Twenty years after the first collection of Hicksville was released, creator Dylan Horrocks talks to Emmet about how the comic
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Deconstructing Comics #814: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ #5-8 — As Wacky As They Wanna Be
Reading the original Jack Kirby iteration of The Eternals shows that the MCU movie based on the title was rather dour,
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Deconstructing Comics #813: ‘Cross Game’ — Baseball Manga That’s Not About Baseball (Much)
Mitsuru Adachi‘s Cross Game is a baseball manga for people who don’t care about baseball. A tragedy early in the story
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Deconstructing Comics #812: Jonah Lobe On Character Anatomy And ‘Quiet: Level One’
Jonah Lobe, after many years designing characters for video games, has recently turned his attention to comics. He’s the illustrator
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Deconstructing Comics #811: ‘Blood Of The Virgin’ — About Much More Than Filmmaking
On the surface, Sammy Harkham’s Blood of the Virgin is about an editor of b-movies in 1970s L.A. who has greater
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Deconstructing Comics #810: ‘Batman/Dylan Dog’ — Dark Knight Meets Nightmare Investigator
Batman meets Italy’s humorous horror icon, Dylan Dog, in a beautiful three-issue series originally published in Italian and recently released
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Deconstructing Comics #809: Pidge Interview — “Fiction Is A Way To Tell The Truth”
Sure, comics are great for fantastical stories, but they can tell intimate, personal stories as well — or sometimes the
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Deconstructing Comics #808: Jack Kirby’s ‘The Eternals’ #1-4 — Chariots Of The Superheroes?
So many Jack Kirby creations focus on gods, from The Mighty Thor to New Gods; he picked up concepts from myth
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Critiquing Comics #236: ‘Clover And Cutlass’ And ‘Coiled To Strike’
Clover and Cutlass is a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy YA comedy web comic by Toby Boyd. Adam joins Tim to
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Deconstructing Comics #807: Reviews — ‘Fiendish’ And ‘Safer Places’
Friend of the show Irene Strychalski, former artist of such Marvel titles as Gwenpool and Silk, has been focused on her
Read moreDeconstructing Comics #806: ‘Berserk’ Vol. 13 & 14 — Is This Scene Necessary?
Berserk volume 12 left us at a crucial point: The Band of the Hawk were to be sacrificed so that
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