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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Deconstructing Comics #805: ‘Feeding Ghosts’ — A Story Of Chinese History And Family Trauma
This week, an interview with Tessa Hulls, author of the graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts. It’s about her Chinese grandmother’s persecution by
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Deconstructing Comics #804: ‘Berserk’ Vol. 11 & 12 — Cartoonish Violence, Epic Horror
Kentaro Miura’s Berserk can be upsetting, fascinating, offputting, incredible, and even sometimes a bit comedic, as Tim and Kumar have
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Deconstructing Comics #803: Jack Kirby’s ‘2001’ #6-10 — Machine Man Begins
What did Marvel expect Jack Kirby to do with a 2001: A Space Odyssey series? Especially when they told him not to
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Critiquing Comics #235: ‘Rebirth Of The Gangster’ And ‘Toe & So Long’
Critiquing Comics returns, with a comic that we just couldn’t put down, and one that we couldn’t quite pick up
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Deconstructing Comics #801: ‘Swamp Thing’ Begins — Issues 1-13 Reviewed
The character of Swamp Thing originated in House of Secrets #92 in 1971, drawn by Berni Wrightson and written by Len
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Deconstructing Comics #800: ‘Batman And The Outsiders’ Vol. 2 Review
Batman and the Outsiders was one of DC’s top sellers in the 1980s. This time, Tim is joined by John
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Deconstructing Comics #799: ‘Berserk’ Vol. 9 & 10 Deep Dive
Kentaro Miura’s Berserk can be confounding. Reading volumes 9 and 10 prompts us to ask “Just what genre is this comic,
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ (2018)
After the gravitas of Avengers: Infinity War, which ended in a blaze of glory only for the villain, what did we
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Something For The Weekend: Your Regular Dose Of Popular Posts
Another week gone and another weekend is upon us. Here’s hoping you’re all doing something exciting with it. It even
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Deconstructing Comics #689 (Flashback): Priest’s ‘Black Panther’
FLASHBACK! In 1998, under the “Marvel Knights” banner, Christopher Priest began the first ongoing Black Panther title in nearly two decades.
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Deconstructing Comics #798: ‘Delicious in Dungeon’ Yields A Feast
Ryoko Kui’s Delicious in Dungeon pokes fun at fantasy games and cooking manga tropes, exploring what it would really be
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