Critiquing Comics #213: ‘Bric-A-Brac’
This time, a Christmas-themed comic. Isn’t it a little late for that? A seasonal comic may be a rather odd
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Deconstructing Comics #721 — Kirby’s Fourth World: ‘Jimmy Olsen’ Pt 1
By the end of the 1960s, Jack Kirby had had enough of Marvel. He felt that the company had not
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Critiquing Comics #211: ‘Thready’
Thready is a comic about a week in the life of a character who is bipolar. That’s him in the
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Deconstructing Comics #720: ‘The Other 1980s’
There were several landmark comics titles in the 1980s (do we really need to name them?), but unfortunately they tend
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Deconstructing Comics #719: ‘Demon Slayer’
The latest manga sensation is Koyoharu Gotouge‘s Demon Slayer. Both the manga and the anime have broken records (including in
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’
“Tim Catches Up with the MCU” moves on to the second Avengers movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Tim reveals
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Deconstructing Comics #718: ‘No One Else’
After years of putting her life on hold to care for her father, he passes on. How does she react?
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Deconstructing Comics #717: ‘Chad in Amsterdam’ #6
Chad Bilyeu, an American living in Amsterdam, has been a favorite of ours over on Critiquing Comics for the past
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Critiquing Comics #210: ‘Epic Tavern’s Tales From The Fantastical Crimes Unit’
Epic Tavern’s Tales from the Fantastical Crimes Unit gives us a noir-type detective on the case of a kidnapped centaur
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Deconstructing Comics #716: 1950s ‘World’s Finest’ Might Be “World’s Goofiest”
If you’re not into the drama of the past few decades of DC Comics, come with us back to the
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Deconstructing Comics #714: Debbie Jacobson
Ghosting is about a bus driver in a budding relationship with a woman who suddenly disappears from his life. Has
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Critiquing Comics #209: ‘Producing The End Of The World’
Anthologies have traditionally been something of a bear to critique, especially if they’re not very good. Producing the End of
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Deconstructing Comics #713: ‘Second Coming’ Comes Back
Mark Russell & Richard Pace‘s Second Coming stirred up controversy before it even came out, because it was a comic
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Critiquing Comics #208: ‘Amazing Tales’ #4
David Dye has been one of our favorites here on Critiquing Comics; Tim and Mulele even interviewed him once. He’s
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Deconstructing Comics #712: San Diego Comic-Con Begins
San Diego Comic-Con has always been about more than comics! That’s the contention of producer and journalist Mathew Klickstein, who
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
“Tim Catches Up with the MCU” continues with our look at Guardians of the Galaxy. How does it rank in
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Deconstructing Comics #711: Tom Scioli’s ‘Kirby’
Tom Scioli’s Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics is a bio in comics form and written
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Critiquing Comics #207: ‘Texas Tracts’
Texas Tracts, by Rachelle Meyer, is a series of three short comics, modeled in format after the Christian evangelical “Chick
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
In this episode of “Tim Catches Up with the MCU”, Tim and Mulele discuss the political thriller Captain America: The
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Deconstructing Comics #710: Naoki Urasawa’s ‘Pluto’
You’re probably aware of the Osamu Tezuka character Astro Boy (called Tetsuwon Atom in Japan). Starting in 2003, Naoki Urasawa
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Critiquing Comics #206: ‘Root And Branch’
Root and Branch is a comic that flirts with the fantasy genre, but is more concerned about a clash of
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Deconstructing Comics #709: ‘Air Gear’
Shonen manga are known for putting their protagonists in systems that they must work their way up through in a
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Critiquing Comics #205: ‘Honeymoon In The Afterlife’
Is Matt Canning‘s Honeymoon in the Afterlife about dying? Is it about life? Unlike some inscrutable comics we’ve discussed recently,
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Something For The Weekend: A Wide Selection Of Popular Post From The Past Week
Well, it’s been a busy week on all fronts, as reflected in this week’s ten-to-takeaway with news and previewed from
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Deconstructing Comics #708: Aaack! ‘Cathy’ Is Still Relevant!
Cathy Guisewite‘s longrunning comic strip Cathy is still a topic of discussion eleven years after it ended. While it may
Read moreDeconstructing Comics #707: Joe Dator And ‘Inked’
After fifteen years of cartooning for The New Yorker, Joe Dator has a deep catalog of published work –
Read moreDeconstructing Comics #706: ‘Ping Pong’
Prolific manga creator Taiyo Matsumoto‘s Ping Pong is, nominally, a sports manga, but it doesn’t stick to the tropes. It
Read moreCritiquing Comics #203: “Midnight Highway”
Midnight Highway is a horror comic on which all the creators are firing on all cylinders. Well, most of them.
Read moreDeconstructing Comics Special — ‘Thor: The Dark World’
This week, from our archive of Patreon podcasts, Tim and Mulele discuss the movie Thor: The Dark World in another
Read moreCritiquing Comics #202: ‘Theatrics’
Neil Gibson is back! Tim and Mulele have discussed his Twisted Dark anthology series more than once, and Koom once
Read moreCritiquing Comics #201: ‘Adora And The Distance’
Although it’s currently only available digitally, Adora and the Distance, by Marc Bernardin, Ariela Kistantina, Bryan Valenza, and Bernardo Brice,
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