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
Read moreDeconstructing Comics #796: Stan Mack And ‘Real Life Funnies’
If you read New York’s Village Voice newspaper between 1974 and 1995, you are probably familiar with Stan Mack‘s Real Life
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Deconstructing Comics #479 (Flashback): Some Of The Greatest Superman Stories (Or Not)
FLASHBACK! There’s no doubt that Superman is one of the most significant characters in the history of American comics. He ended
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Deconstructing Comics #219 (Flashback): ‘Asterios Polyp’
FLASHBACK! Reviews of Asterios Polyp blanket the Internet; why need we pile on? Well, for starters, to counteract all the reviewers
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Deconstructing Comics #795: Jack Kirby’s ‘Capt. America And The Falcon’ #198-200 — Bicentennial Madness
Cap and the Falcon have found the underground bunker of the aristocratic forces hoping to take over America on the
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Something For The Weekend: Your Regular Dose Of Popular Posts
We have another selection of posts from the past week to share with you. Posts that proved to be our
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Deconstructing Comics #794: ‘The Ballad Of Halo Jones’ — In Color!
To mark the recent passing of artist Ian Gibson, Kumar and Dana dive into a long-overdue discussion of his masterpiece with
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Deconstructing Comics #793: ‘Berserk’ Vol. 7-8: The Battle for Doldrey
While Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is meant to feature the swordsman character Guts, in volumes 7 and 8 the focus is on
Read moreDeconstructing Comics Special: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ (2018)
Tim continues to catch up with the MCU! This film is awkward to review nearly two years after it came out,
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Deconstructing Comics #792: Jack Kirby’s ‘Capt. America And The Falcon’ #195-197 — “Kill-Derby”
Cap and Falcon are trapped in an underground bunker where elites plot to destroy the Bicentennial celebrations and take away
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Deconstructing Comics #791: Daniel Clowes’ ‘Monica’
Monica is Dan Clowes‘s richest and most rewarding book in years, combining the surrealism of early works like Like a
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Deconstructing Comics #790: ‘Social Fiction’ By Chantal Montellier
Chantal Montellier‘s Social Fiction, published by New York Review Comics with a translation by Geoffrey Brock, is a collection of
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Deconstructing Comics #789: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America And The Falcon’ #193-194 — “Madbomb”
When Jack Kirby returned to Marvel in 1975, the first series he worked on starred the character that was one of
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Deconstructing Comics #291 (Flashback): ‘Monster’ — Justifiable Homicide? Pt 2
FLASHBACK! Planning a murder that you think will prevent future murders? That’s the premise — or, at least, one of
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Deconstructing Comics #290 (Flashback): ‘Nexus’ — Justifiable Homicide? Pt 1
FLASHBACK! We begin a two-review series on comics that ask hard questions about whether murder can ever be justified. This
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Deconstructing Comics #788: Alan Moore’s ‘1963’
In 1993, the Image revolution was underway, itself a result of the 1986 earthquake brought about by Alan Moore‘s Watchmen and
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Deconstructing Comics #462 (Flashback): ‘Usagi Yojimbo’
FLASHBACK! Originating out of the same ’80s black-and-white/anthropomorphic boom that brought us the Ninja Turtles, Usagi Yojimbo is one of the
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Deconstructing Comics #787: Jack Kirby’s ‘OMAC’ — The World That’s Going
The run of Jack Kirby‘s OMAC: One-Man Army Corps was bright but short, lasting only through eight bi-monthly issues. This time,
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Deconstructing Comics #786: Jack Kirby’s ‘OMAC’ — The World That’s Coming
One of Jack Kirby‘s late efforts at DC was OMAC: One-Man Army Corps, which focuses on “the world that’s coming”:
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Black Panther’ (2018)
Paul of To the Batpoles joins Tim and Mulele to discuss 2018’s Black Panther film, trying to separate political filmmaking
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Deconstructing Comics #785: ‘Berserk’ — The Prosaic Past
After covering the first four volumes of Kentaro Miura‘s Berserk a few months back, Tim and Kumar decided to keep going.
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