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Boldly Strippedis a wonderfully naughty book. It istheperfect smutty gift for every Trek Original Series (TOS) nerd in the universe. The book is as
Boldly Strippedis a wonderfully naughty book. It istheperfect smutty gift for every Trek Original Series (TOS) nerd in the universe. The book is as beautifully designed and crafted as Hazel Honeysuckle is herself. The painstaking care in recreating sets, making costumes and prosthetics, painting Hazel's skin to get each alien race just right, along with the playfulness and unrepentant sexuality makeBoldly Strippeda must-have artifact for any true lover of TOS. And the best part of it is knowing that those who producedBoldly Stripped,from Hazel to Dangrrr to everyone in between, are huge nerds just like us. They all love TOS just as much as we do, and they do honour to Roddenberry's original series in a way that far exceeds all the "new" series that invade our airwaves.Boldly Strippedis a labour of love that just happens to appreciate the fact that a little lust never hurt anyone. ...more |
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Whew! I just finished my smoke. Time to clean up the mess.;) In all serious, though,Yes, Royawas something of a revelation. I feel like I have been w Whew! I just finished my smoke. Time to clean up the mess.;) In all serious, though,Yes, Royawas something of a revelation. I feel like I have been waiting my whole life for this story. It is the erotica I have been craving; it is everything I desire in real life, everything I have experienced in a piece here and a piece there but never as a whole; it is arousing, loving, brave, sexy, caring, submissive & dominant, defiant; it makes me proud to be bisexual, actually. And that is quite an affirming thing. ...more |
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Know before you begin theSavage Avengersthat the assembled team has nothing to do with the Avengers -- no affiliation -- and that they are not even
Know before you begin theSavage Avengersthat the assembled team has nothing to do with the Avengers -- no affiliation -- and that they are not even remotely a team of Savage "Avengers." The comic could just as easily be called Conan's Bastards, or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Savage Land, or The Dirty Half-Dozen, but Marvel knows that if they throw Avengers in a title it's going to sell more comics, soSavage Avengersis the title they gave us. False advertising aside there is really only one thing that doesn't work for me inSavage Avengers,and that is the same thing that fails to work for me whenever he appears -- the Punisher. Apologies to Gerry Duggan for my feelings since Duggan's motive for choosing Frank Castle as one of his Savages makes perfect sense and is upheld by his story's internal logic, but I simply can't stand the Punisher. I find him boring, overused, one note, a prime example in our comic book writers of what Ursula K. Leguin called "the treason of the artist": The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. (from The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas),and the Punisher's presence in any comic, for me at least, diminishes whatever else is being done, which is particularly unfortunate in theSavage Avengers,considering how good everything else is. We get Wolverine lopping off limbs left and right, while stretching his healing factor beyond anything we've ever seen before; we get Elektra as something of a chess master moving her pawns around and keeping them alive when she can; we get Doctor Voodoo (perhaps the least savage of the bunch) magicking his ass off; Venom doing what Venom does best -- cracking wise in a supporting role; and best of all, Conan of Cimmeria, hot off the pages of Savage Sword of Conan, ridiculously exiles from Hyboria and set loose in the Savage Land (what next? Kull as a member of the Fantastic Four?). I'm going to come right out and say that I came toSavage Avengersbecause of Conan. I'm a huge fan. I still play Conan RPG games and strategy games. I even love apocryphal Conan villains -- like theSavage Avengers' Kulan Gath -- even though they have no connection whatsoever to the original works ofRobert E. Howard.All of these elements are worth the visit with Gerry Duggan's mad team of Savage Bad-Asses, and the art work is a slicing, dicing, bloody brilliant morass of gore, so that is good too. Savage Avengersis pure O-Positive escapism, and very nearly perfect. If only Frank Castle would fuck off and die. Or even better... I'd love a Mandela effect where only I can remember that the Punisher ever existed and the rest of the world has no idea what I am talking about. What a wonderful world that would be. ...more |
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My brain is working in two directions when it comes toKeanu ReevesBRZRKR, vol. 1.The first has to do with the man himself and the second has to do
My brain is working in two directions when it comes toKeanu ReevesBRZRKR, vol. 1.The first has to do with the man himself and the second has to do with the story. I'll talk about the latter first. The Latter --A stew of violence that mixes Highlander, Wolverine and Conan into one frothing broth of bloodiness,BRZRKR, vol. 1doesn't even come close to matching its ingredients for tastiness, but that doesn't mean it is inedible. It may not fill you up on a Saturday afternoon, but it'll give you some sustenance and make you keen for a little more to eat. It helps that Keanu is the model for the beserker in question, B, because it becomes much easier to picture the live action version of the tale (which is in the works at Netflix), adding a little extra spice to the stew. Yet it remains difficult for me to give it a high recommendation. It's a diversion. A bloody, mildly interesting, well drawn, decently scripted diversion. But not much more. The Former --What I think is far more interesting is the other thoughts -- the thoughts about Keanu Reeves -- thatBRZRKR, vol. 1has conjured in me. Maybe I am wrong about the cultural moment that imagines Keanu as the finest, kindest, most down to earth star imaginable. Perhaps the narrative doesn't exist and I have merely imagined it, but without seeking anything out about Keanu, this is what I "know": that he is currently praised for dating someone who is age appropriate (and *GASP* even has grey hair!), that he is widely seen as a good man because of the simple way he lives his life, including his use of public transportation, that he is praised for being kind on sets, a pleasure to work with, and respectful of all the cast and crew (but shouldn't that be the bare minimum for all of us in every job?), and that he seems to have a total lack of ego. As I say, I could be wrong about this, but that is certainly the image of Keanu that I have osmosed over the last little while. But having readBRZRKR, vol. 1I can't help wondering if he is as amazing as we all seem to think. Some of those assumed positives I mentioned seem to have humility all wrapped up in them, but how much humility can a man have when he is writing about an indestructible demi-god and then adding his own face to the character? I'm going to venture... not very much. And what about the idea that Reeves is a simple man, living well beneath his means? If that is true then Keanu has money to burn, so why on earth does he need a Kickstarter campaign to produce his pet project? He raised over one million dollars from fans, but surely he could have hired his collaborators and paid for publication on his own dime, without asking for money from hundreds of thousands of folks who surely have a fraction of what Keanu has. Then there is his movie career. There are some cute parts mixed in, and some parts that are heavy on kindness, but most of Keanu's career has seen him as a purveyor of violence, often ultraviolence. From Johnny Utah to Neo, from Jack Traven to John Wick, Reeves plays violent killers, albeit violent killers with style, and now, withBRZRKR, vol. 1,Reeves has penned his own ultraviolent killer to make all of his other ultraviolent killers seem like Smurfs by comparison. The Keanu Reeves we imagine should be using his superstardom to break down the Hollywood obsession with violence rather than reinforcing the obsession, but here he is giving us another "hero" who bathes in blood. None of this means that what our culture seems to think of Keanu Reeves is wrong. He may be all those things I mentioned before, butBRZRKR, vol. 1suggests that he is much more complex than we seem to be convincing ourselves he is, and maybe what we need to recognize that this current myth of Keanu Nice Guy Extraordinaire is just that -- myth. Keanu is man. Just a man. ...more |
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More a money grabbie graphic advertisement for Marvel’s version of Conan the Barbarian than a true graphic novel or even an actual showcase of excepti
More a money grabbie graphic advertisement for Marvel’s version of Conan the Barbarian than a true graphic novel or even an actual showcase of exceptional shorts,Exodus and Other Taleswouldn’t even be worth reviewing if not for a couple of exceptional tales hidden within. Exodus, by Esad Ribić ★★★★★:The book opens with the most exceptional tale of them all --Exodus. Artist and occasional writer Esad Ribić, whose best work is often providing the art for famous comic writer Jason Aaron, is my son’s favourite comic book artist (and my son has some authority in this field, being a seriously talented illustrator himself). While I tend to favour more traditional penciling, I have to admit that Ribić’s water colour inspired airbrush paintings blow me away, and I absolutely see why Miloš admires him so. There is a depth of colour and texture to his art that transcends classic comic illustration, and his medium seems to enable him to capture human expression better than any comic artist I have ever seen. This ability to capture expression is on full display in Ribić’s Conan one-shot. In fact, it is the primary tool of his storytelling. There is almost no dialogue inExodus,and what dialogue does appear is a series of glyphs (which may or may not be decipherable) that represent the language of the Hyborian Age speakers. The only way to tell what is being felt or said is through the expressions of the characters and the actions they engage in. It is a silent film captured on a comic book page in gloriously rich colour. Imagine the cinematography ofRevenant(and even some of the plot), and the silent middle ofCastawayapplied to a Conan tale and you will imagine precisely what you’re getting into when you read Exodus. I hope Ribić continues to turn out work likeExodus,because he reminds us how beautiful the storytelling of comic books can be. Savage Sword of Conan #12, written by Frank Tieri, penciled by Andrea di Vito ★★★:This traditionally spun Conan tale really deserves its own title beyond the comic it appeared in, especially since it is a one-shot interlude inSavage Swordrather than part of a larger story arc -- so I am going to call itDemon Seedto make it easier to write about. Though a big drop off from the brilliance of Ribić’sExodus,Demon Seedis a perfectly functional Conan story, something the Conan dilettantesL. Sprague de CampandLin Carterwould have written. Conan slays men and demons alike, his actions are not terribly well informed but he can be forgiven because he is tricked into bad assery, and the pacing and action flow well. There is nothing profound, nothing particularly mind-blowing happening, but the art is pretty and the story is workmanlike, soDemon Seedis exactly what one would expect to fill their Conan void when they pick up their comics every month. Does it belong in a collection of Conan shorts, though? Not really. Aftermath - and a Beginning, written by Roy Thomas, art by Steve McNiven ★★:This story is a real piss off. The telling is fine, the art is fine, but it is a prologue that drops off just when it is starting to show its power, and we’re given this not-so-fine piece of writing as the parting shot: “For the remainder of this tale of the coming of Conan, see a reprinting of the first issue of Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian, originally published precisely half a century agone.” Now that old story never needed a prologue, so why Thomas and McNiven bothered, and why Marvel gave them the greenlight to bother is beyond me, but the cynical nature of the call to go read the actual story, which must cost a reader more money, either on comixology or at the local comic book store, makes me not give a shit about the whys. In the City of Thieves, written by Kurt Busiek, art by Pete Woods ★★★★½:This story could have been a piss off akin toAftermath - and a Beginningbecause it too is a prologue to an existing Conan tale, but there is a difference that sets it apart and that difference makes all the difference. In the City of Thievesdrops Conan into Zamora a couple of days before the classic Robert E. Howard story,The Tower of the Elephantbegins. If you’ve read that story, your mind will already be full of the sights and scents of Zamora, and the glistening tower that hides a bad ass interdimensional secret, which will surely elevate your experience withIn the City of Thieves.If you haven’t read the story -- and here is the difference I was talking about -- it won’t really matter becauseIn the City of Thievesis a complete one-off tale that doesn’t change or require its source inspiration in any way. Plus, it is a solid story in its own right, tapping into Conan’s superstitions, his intelligence, his cynicism, and his greed. Best of all... he doesn’t kill anyone. It’s almost unique in the universe of Conan, making it a near match for Ribić’sExodus,and one of the only other tales in this book worthy of a place in a collection of Conan shorts. Die by the Sword, written by Chris Claremont, art by Roberto de la Torre ★★★★It’s always fun to read something by Chris Claremont, the king of all good X-Men stories, but it is particularly fun to see him playing with the barbaric Cimmerian. Die by the Swordis the simplest tale in this collection, spanning the length of one battle Conan is fighting for Turan against the Hyrkanians. In the early stages of the battle, he comes closest to defeat at the hands of an Hyrkanian woman, whom he dispatches without ceremony before moving on, but he stumbles upon her fierce daughter later in the battle and they share a moment of philosophical discussion before she also dies under Conan's sword. It is moving in its simplicity, and it reveals that Claremont has one of the best understandings of Howard’s Conan. It makes me long for a full year of Claremont Conan comics. That would be an impressive run. But this tiny sliver of a story, good as it is and full of promise for all the untold Claremont Conan tales, isn't exceptional, only very good. Requiem, by Kevin Eastman ★The worst story and worst art in the collection combine in Kevin Eastman’sRequiem,which ends up being nothing more than poorly worked revenge porn. It really has no business in the same comic asExodus,and more than any other entry,Requiemcheapens this graphic collection. The revenge motive has always been one of the laziest and silliest drivers of non-Howard Conan stories, andRequiemis a particularly crappy entry in that Conan niche. Conan fights some baddies and barely escapes over a waterfall, a poor group of villagers downriver nurse Conan back to health, then he leaves them. A panel or two later Conan sees their village burning, goes back, and sure enough it is the baddies who sent him over the waterfall. He kills them... and scene. It’s the plot of a thirteen year old boy’s D&D wet dreams. It’s one thing that shit like this gets produced (I get how that happens) it’s another thing to slip it into a collection of supposedly great Conan stories to ambush unsuspecting readers. Ship of the Damned, written by Steven S. DeKnight, art by Jesus Saiz ★★★The collection ends with a disappointing tale, not becauseShip of the Damnedis poorly written or poorly penciled, but because it is a novella length tale jammed into the space of a short story with art that is beautiful but far too clean for the Hyborian Age. DeKnight needed 12 issues to tell this tale properly, to have us understand Conan’s love for Belit, to build up the crew, to prepare us for the hell ship, and then to really take us through that ship to the tales denouement. But instead of 12 issues we got 10 pages, and that just isn’t enough. As for the art, Saiz crafted some attractive stuff (his conjuring of the spirit at the heart of the ship was particularly impressive), but the lines were too crisp, too clean, too without grit and character -- grit and character that still manages to appear in Ribić’s work despite his pretty watercolour palette -- too without the lived in quality that marks the best Conan art. It’s pretty to look at, and "better" than lots of art in this collection, but his style would be better suited to the Avengers than to the Cimmerian. What a shameShip of the Damnedwasn’t better. But the same must be said for the whole collection, so I suppose it was a fitting end to an uneven comic. ...more |
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I own Thor #337 and read the same copy I own the month it came out in 1983. Should that matter to you, dear reader? Probably not. But I am a Beta Ray
I own Thor #337 and read the same copy I own the month it came out in 1983. Should that matter to you, dear reader? Probably not. But I am a Beta Ray Bill fan from the very beginning, and I feel like that counts for something. Family and friends can attest to my deep love for Beta Ray Bill because when I talk about Marvel I always find a way to bring him into the discussion. So there you go. I have a stake in Walt Simonson's greatest creation, and I am predisposed to love anything and everything Beta Ray Bill. Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill,however, makes me want to cry. It is a soulless, poorly plotted, space opera wannabe, lazily repeating Bill's origin story -- this time "after" Ragnarok, which effectively takes away all the characters who lend Beta Ray Bill its emotional depth -- then adding a new herald for Galactus, some disintegrating, interstellar hell-gate opening idiot named Stardust, Galactus himself, and a failed Ray Bill called Alpha Ray Bill who is back then gone then remade by Galactus and back again. And when all the drivel in space is overMichael Avon Oemingbrings Beta Ray Bill back to New York City for an action epilogue that includes Spidey, the Boar, and a new alter-ego for Beta Ray Bill -- Simon Walters (a tip of the pen to Walt Simonson, obviously) -- a recently deceased war veteran. So it is space drivel then Manhattan drivel. Drivel. Drivel. Drivel. Beta Ray Drivel. ...more |
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I have finely found that most elusive ofChina Miéville's creatures -- a story that disappoints. Never before have I closed a cover on a Miéville book I have finely found that most elusive ofChina Miéville's creatures -- a story that disappoints. Never before have I closed a cover on a Miéville book and felt as let down as I did finishing. Did I miss something? Was it failure on my part as a reader? Am I becoming too jaded? Nope, nope & nope. No, I think it all boils down to being both a rehash and dumping ground for Miéville. The rehashing is everywhere, but the rehashing that bothered me most was in the dialogue boxes of "Abyss" -- the big existential baddy of the first story arc -- because it was a cheaper, dirtier, less coherent and far less effective version ofPerdido Street Station's Weaver. Where the Weaver was surprising and energizing, Abyss was an unearned interjection and utterly draining. Then there is the dumping ground of weird and steampunky characters that feel like rejects from New Crobuzon or the weird Englands ofUn Lun Dun,King Rat,andKraken.Now maybe some of these or none of these characters were figments of Miéville's imagination. Perhaps they came from previous incarnations ofDial HfromD.C.ages past, but shit like "Boy Chimney" (my favourite of the bunch), "Captain Lachrymose," and "Iron Snail" all feel an awful lot like Miéville creations. And those three were the good ones. Ugh. The New 52Dial His Miéville, so I will go on until I finish reading his run, but at the moment I am regretting my foray into graphic Miéville. I hope it gets better, but I fear I am going to have to wait forA Spectre Haunting Europebefore I get back to my usual Miéville love. ...more |
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As an opening arc for an ongoing comic series,Bitch Planet,Vol 1: Extraordinary Machinemight be up there with my three or four favourites of the las
As an opening arc for an ongoing comic series,Bitch Planet,Vol 1: Extraordinary Machinemight be up there with my three or four favourites of the last decade. The amazing Kelly Sue DeConnick drops us right smack into her Father Earth-Mother Space-verse, and leaves it up to us to navigate our way to understanding what the hell is going on, strategically underspecifying almost everything except what is needed to tell us about her characters and her plot in the immediatenowof her tale. There is a lot going on. The Bitch Planet is the prison colony for the non-compliant women of Earth -- an Earth fully enveloped in a hyper-patriarchy that seems to have taken on a quasi-religious dogmatism (which reminds me of the Sons of Adam fromRacoona Sheldon's Sci-Fi classic,The Screwfly Solution.Non-compliance means almost anything: being obese (so not living up to a nearly impossible physical standard), "talking back" to a husband, being unemployed, sexual orientation, being a "bad mother" and on and on. There is an insane, ultra-violent, hand ball based sport that controls the hearts and minds of Father Earth-Mother Space-verse. Media perpetuates the ills of the nastiest opinions and diverts the attention of the fooled billions. Voyeurism is rampant (and we the reader are implicated in that nasty male gaze at all times). And sexual harassment, assault and rape are ubiquitous. And the unspoken or barely suggested background of the Father Earth-Mother Space-verse makesBitch Planet,Vol 1: Extraordinary Machineeven richer. All the non-compliance we're faced with and steered into noticing and responding to is matched by a deep level of compliance everywhere else, mostly male but also female. And then there is a hint of non-compliance amongst men too (and questions of what that means and where it will lead made for some kick ass conversations amongst those I was reading this with). There are Pervs Camps that could be the destination of a Peeping Tom guard, raising the question of what other "perversions" the camps are used to punish. Toxicity of human behaviour -- mostly masculine -- is everywhere in the background. And how the world's reached this point hang over the tale like a storm cloud. And if that isn't enough there is the satirical awesomeness of the advertising pages that end each issue. This is top notch comic writing. But surely anyone who reads DeConnick's work on a regular basis has come to expect that. If you happen to read these words, though, Kelly Sue, can I ask a favour? Can you take your extraordinary talent and write us a Sci-Fi novel? You see, we lost a goddess of Sci-Fi literature recently, and we could sure use your voice in prose too. ...more |
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While Book Three ofSaga of the Swamp Thingdoesn't include my favourite Swamp Thing moment (that has to be Abby and the Swamp Thing's consummation in
While Book Three ofSaga of the Swamp Thingdoesn't include my favourite Swamp Thing moment (that has to be Abby and the Swamp Thing's consummation in Book Two) nor my favourite Swamp Thing arc (that is still the Floronic Man Green vs. Red arc from Book One), it is, perhaps, the most consistently excellent of the Moore years so far -- and it does contain my favourite single issue: "The Curse." It begins with the creepy "The Nukeface Papers," wherein Swamp Thing begins to understand the breadth of his powers. It is a tale where the horror of 80s environmental concerns take the shape of a nuclear waste drinking bum, who inadvertently "kills" Swamp Thing. The eco-criticism at the heart of this arc -- which includes newspaper clippings from an imagined coal mining disaster juxtaposed with real world 3-Mile island articles -- is particularly chilling considering how little those dangers have changed since 1985. It continues into a creepy Vampire arc, where a clan of Vampires and their horrifying Vampire Queen -- a morbidly obese, bloated carrier of countless fishlike Vampire eggs -- live beneath the still waters of a manmade lake, a lake that sprang up over an old town because of a dam project. Again, ecological concerns are firmly in place, but the macabre kookiness is in the frightening progeny of the Vampires and the bizarre way Swamp Thing deals with their presence. Next up is "The Curse" -- a werewolf story with an extended menstruation metaphor that is a shockingly prescient scream of patriarchal ubiquity. Then the book wraps up with a zombie tale, wherein the roots of racism have sunk themselves into the earth surrounding a Louisiana plantation, and then those roots reveal the ease with which others can find themselves engaging in racism despite their belief that they have moved beyond such things. Add to all of this brilliance the dirty, nicotine stained fingers of John Constantine (looking as he did for so many of his early years as Dune-era Sting), and Book Three ofSaga of the Swamp Thingis a high point for the Moore-Bissette-Totleben collaboration. ...more |
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This may be the best bunch ofAlan Moore's Swamp Thing run (with the amazing collaboration of Bissette and Totleben). It was a hell of a run. Around 4
This may be the best bunch ofAlan Moore's Swamp Thing run (with the amazing collaboration of Bissette and Totleben). It was a hell of a run. Around 48 comics long, and this collection of seven chapters is exceptional. And if one needs any proof that Moore is a truly great author, not just a great "comic book" author, one need look no further than this volume. It's in his metaphors (just look at what is probably the best description of the Flash's everyday existence in the history of comics); it's in the singular moments of terror (just look at the moment that the Joker stops laughing... in his single panel cameo); it's in the way he takes a magic tuber ride into the realm of Swamp Thing sex, conveying both real love and intimacy in a comic that was supposed to be a horror mag. His prose and his dialogue are gorgeous. Truly. And when those words are matched with the textured, detailed art of Bissette, they threaten to overwhelm. And that art... that art can and must be lingered on, poured over, read and reread for all the details Moore made Bissette add and all the details he added himself (see Moore-Bissette-Totleben in a book about a serial killer). Sometimes it borders on overload, but then Moore drags us back from the edge and we settle down into the simplicity of the tale, and horror gives way to love, and complexity gives way to simplicity, and we are handed a reprieve before the next mad arc begins again. It's no wonder DC made Vertigo and let him run wild with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Faced with his unparalleled talent it was the only thing they should have done. Thank Kal-El they actually did it. ...more |
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I left comics just before this series began because of a move to another part of the world, so coming back to the Old Man Logan of these graphic novel
I left comics just before this series began because of a move to another part of the world, so coming back to the Old Man Logan of these graphic novels is a return without background, without context, andWarzones!is a fucking confusing way to start. I imagine I would have enjoyed it more with context, but I am hoping this zero issue will provide enough context for me to enjoy the future volumes. What I liked: Not much, actually, but at least the art was impressive. And I did like the characterization and importance of Emma Frost. What I didn't like: The Warzones themselves, all under a Godlike Victor von Doom, just seem overbaked to me. Mjolnirs are everywhere, even War Machine is "a Thor," each zone has its own Warlord, bla, bla, bla. It's an idea that might have been brilliant with all new characters in their own universe outside of Marvel, but feels cheesy as hell in the confines of even a splintered and alternate Marvel Universe. ...more |
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There was much talk about the gender flip when Goddess Thor replaced Odinson (which was to be expected), and much of the initial talk came from Thor f
There was much talk about the gender flip when Goddess Thor replaced Odinson (which was to be expected), and much of the initial talk came from Thor fans (mostly men) who were critical of the change. Then that talk was answered by the opposition camp (mostly women) who were critical of the criticism. I have been a Marvel Thor fan since I was a teenager. I have the entire run ofWalt Simonsonbagged and boarded and filed for posterity, and I have a future tattoo of a Simonson Thor all picked out. My daughter loves Lady Sif (and hates Jane Foster because Jane gets in the way of Sif's love), and her twin brother has won awards for his God of Thunder cosplay at local conventions. We are a Thor family, so I couldn't help be interested in the debate. I personally loved the idea as soon as I heard it was happening because I'd had my own idea for years that every character that Thor truly loved -- Sif, Jane, Baldur, Freyja, maybe even Steve -- were worthy of Mjolnir, and that any of them in a time of dire need could lift the hammer. My heart and brain were prepared for the change, therefore, and I had no problem seeing someone else wield Mjolnir, especially knowing it was coming from the very capable mind of Jason Aaron. Surprise, surprise, though... my twelve year old twins had other ideas. I was fully expecting them to be on board and excited like I was, but neither of them were, which made me pause and want to take another, deeper look at why it is that some folks (those mostly men again) were so upset by the Thor shakeup. I started by talking to my daughter. For Bronte it was annoyance at the gimmickieness of the whole thing. You see, Bronte already loves Asgard’s heroines. Her favourite, favourite, favourite Marvel Superhero is the Lady Sif (her very first comic was during the Sif arc of Journey Into Mystery), and Valkyrie was the next Asgardian she came to love, so she was annoyed that the creators must have thought that the only way to get girls to read Thor comics was to make Thor female rather than to start telling tales that foregrounded the amazing women that already exist in the Marvel Universe and give them their own titles. She, it turns out, wants the already existing women of Marvel to achieve the level of respect they deserve and to, in her words, “Not ride the coattails of the boys!” Then I went to my son. For Milos, the problem had to do with the loss of Thor “him” self. Milos imagines himself as Thor nearly every day and still, at twelve, pretends he’s Thor, running around the house in helmet and cape with Mjolnir in hand saving the realms. His blonde hair (turning brown slowly these days, much to his chagrin) is down to his shoulders and has only been cut (well… trimmed rather than cut) once a year for his whole life – all of this because of Thor. So he saw Lady Thor as an undermining of all he loved. Not only was Thor suddenly personally unworthy of his hammer, but someone else was worthy, and Milos felt like he couldn’t play her because she was, well, a her. The change hurt him, then the hurt became anger because he wondered why they couldn’t just make a new hero who was a girl and leave Thor alone. I was surprised. I figured my own opinion would be theirs (not at all self-absorbed, am I?). But it wasn’t, and they were pissed in a place where I was excited. And neither of them fill the stereotype of what one might imagine the opponents of Lady Thor to be. Milos comes closer, certainly, but he lives in a home of strong women, and he is not a basement dwelling square, and all his best friends are girls, and he loves damn near every Marvel Superheroine there is. But here’s the kicker. Once the two of them read Goddess of Thunder, one of them decided it was awesome and the other had their opinion that it sucked deepened. I imagine you’ve guessed it, but it is Bronte who hates it more and Milos who has decided Lady Thor is “badass cool!” Bronte just can’t see the point. Lady Thor is just Thor (and by the time she finished Goddess of Thunder, she knew exactly who Lady Thor is), and Lady Sif barely gets any time at all, and besides, Bronte would just rather read stories about the awesome ladies that have always been there. Milos, however, is super stoked because it’s not like Thor is gone. He has relinquished the name Thor and become Odinson (certainly nonsensical if you are a believer in Norse Religion, but fitting in the Marvel Universe), and even though he’s lost Mjolnir, he still has Jarnbjorn and a sweet new Uru arm. So there is a new-old Thor out there for him to play, and now that he knows who Lady Thor is and is able to put into the context of the overarching tale, he’s just fine. You just never know why people are going to fear change or even hate change once it has happened, but something about this moment tells me we need to listen to peoples stories rather than shutting them up and shutting them down. And that goes for everyone. For me, I love Thor, the Goddess of Thunder. She makes sense. It enriches her, the character who is now Thor, and it enriches Odinson, and I am a sucker for the enriching of stories and characters I love. I should get the next 5 issues soon. Can’t wait to give them a go ...more |
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I could be out of touch here, and maybe I am, but I am having serious problems with this critically acclaimed iteration of Jem and the Holograms when
I could be out of touch here, and maybe I am, but I am having serious problems with this critically acclaimed iteration of Jem and the Holograms when it comes to believing in the ages / maturity of Jerrica and her sisters. I have an eight year old daughter, a thirteen year old daughter, and I spend much of my time around 18-20-something women, and there are times in Jem and the Holograms when any of the characters could be any of those ages. The most consistently mature is Jerrica, but even she slips into bizarrely childlike behaviour from time to time. The ages / maturity just don't ring true to me. Even Scoutie, my eight year old, is more mature than some of the characters some of the time, and all the other women I am around on a regular basis make Jerrica and her sisters seem inconsistently written at best or utterly vapid at worst. And this is a huge shame because it distracts from many of the things for whichKelly Thompsondeserves praise. The focus on young women doing it on their own (-ish), the fact that a compelling story is being told almost without violence, creativity and the arts as a pursuit being praised rather than denigrated, male characters in supporting roles (yet remaining interesting and worthwhile), themes of love and trust and self-respect and body positivity all getting some time on stage -- these are stories worth telling and they are mostly being told well -- except for the odd immaturity that seems to take hold of the characters from time to time. The age vs. maturity issue really does hinder my enjoyment. Most of the time I think it is the inconsistent art that is to blame (too many different artists disrupt the story's flow), but sometimes it is in Thompson's writing too. Jem and the Holograms and their enemies, the Misfits, can go from reasonably bothered to spoiled bratty in the space of a panel, and it undermines my desire to pull for them. But you know what... I know this comic isn't for me. I know I'm not the target audience, and my littlest girl loves it, so who am I to be mean about Jem and the Holograms? I am the wrong person to be judging. But as long as Scoutie is reading these, I will be too, and I fear my struggle with the maturity of the bands will continue. Oh well, It's definitely worth a read or two, especially if you are an eight year old who loves to play piano and loves to cosplay Jem. ...more |
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That a book and its characters could be worth reading when their stories were originally conceived as a way to sell dolls that already existed as conc
That a book and its characters could be worth reading when their stories were originally conceived as a way to sell dolls that already existed as concepts, that a corporate crafted method of scamming money from little girls at Toys R Us would be something I would eventually find myself sharing with my youngest daughter, that anything good could come of such cynicism are things I am probably going to struggle with for a long time, but here I am after readingKelly Thompson's 2015 IDW reboot ofJem and the Holograms #1for the second time to admit that perhaps where an idea comes from isn't nearly as important as what is done with it once it exists. I've not watched the old Jem cartoon, so I don't have any preconceived notions of whatJem and the Hologramsshould be, so I come to this Thompson/Campbell version of Jem absolutely fresh and without Jem specific baggage (and I have already claimed my ideological baggage, so...). What I come away with fromJem and the Holograms: Showtimeis a warm feeling for its creators, its characters and its tale. I can't help liking a story where the women outnumber the men by a large margin; I can't help liking a story where friendship is at its heart; I can't help liking a story where love knows no gender boundaries or sexuality boundaries without any anxiety, shame or judgment coming from the creators; I can't help liking a story where exuberance abounds; I can't help liking a story with such pinks and purples. So I do... I like this story. Very much. But for all the things there is to like, for all the things I do like, I can't help feeling that it is all too slight for my tastes. My mind isn't hungering for anything violent or dark (although Dark Jem is on the horizon for me), I am not looking for anything more complicated when it comes to the plot, but I do want something more when it comes to thematic oomph! I want more than pleasant despite how pleasant pleasant can be. Fingers crossed I'll get that oomph! inJem and the Holograms#2. ...more |
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When a comic store discussion kicks up about Mike Grell'sGreenArrow: The Longbow Hunters,there is an almost religious hush that settles on the speak
When a comic store discussion kicks up about Mike Grell'sGreenArrow: The Longbow Hunters,there is an almost religious hush that settles on the speakers as they stand around the stacks or lean against the glass display cases. There is a sort of mythic reverence these nerd acolytes try to pass on to the uninitiated, and having once been one of the latter, I myself was personally touched by the former. Due to a peculiarity in me, however, I didn't take my copy home and devour it with a born-again religious fervour. I did take it home, that much is true, but as I am wont to do with most things other folks revere, I couldn't bring myself to start. Instead,The Longbow Huntersjoined my bedside stack of things to read, then daunted me from that vantage. It took me years to finally pick it up and see what all that love was about. I understand the reverence now even if I don't feel it myself. The Longbow Hunterscame out between DC's two granddaddy examples of comic book seriousness. Sandwiched betweenThe Dark Knight Returns(1986) andThe Killing Joke(1988),The Longbow Huntersfeatures mature incarnations of Oliver Queen and Dinah Lance (stripped of her Black Canary persona), as they love one another, ponder parenthood (and the decision on this is particularly fascinating), come to accept their place as "super-heroes," and put their lives on the line for what they believe. Beyond their somewhat comfortable world, a sort of Jack-the-Ripper serial killer is slaughtering prostitutes, while a second bowman is taking out a series of seemingly unconnected, rich, powerful victims, and a plague of drug crime is polluting the streets the two love so much. In the midst of all this gritty chaos is a favourite of all Green Arrow fans -- Shado. She is a Yakuza assassin, forced to kill a series of targets to regain her family's honour and pay off her blood debt, and her presence forces Green Arrow to consider his own ethics, and embrace the killing of foes. It is never clear if this acceptance of killing is due to a need for justice or a recognition of vengeance as a motivation, but both concepts are possible, and the lack of resolution is one of the story's great strengths. The Longbow Huntersis a strong story. It is beautifully illustrated (brutally illustrated in some parts) intelligently conceived and plotted, and the dialogue mostly holds up for our contemporary audiences. It also goes some distance towards making Green Arrow a serious hero in the DC Universe, and it is a pivotal moment in what would be Green Arrow's finest years as a solo hero and a member of the Justice League. Unfortunately, though, Green Arrow has never been and will never be as beloved as his fellow from Gotham City, so this comic will never have the readership the comics that include the BatFamily command. I think, ultimately, it is this underdog status that makes it such a religious experience for the nerdy followers of DC. If they know theThe Longbow Hunters,if they've read it and appreciated it, if they can pass on their specialized knowledge to others, if they can proselytize their fervour for this high quality, nearly forgotten brother to the granddaddies, they can hold a tiny little niche of the comic book experience that makes them belong, makes them feel special, makes them safe in a world that they feel hates them. And that may just beThe Longbow Huntersgreatest accomplishment, maintaining a safe space within which to geek out. I am glad I finally pulled it out of my stacks and gave it a read. It's not my favourite, but anything with Shado, especially Shado at her best, is a comic for me. ...more |
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Is it just me, or have we reached a point where it has become cool (perhaps hipster cool?) to hold Alan Moore at arms length and dismiss his work? I d
Is it just me, or have we reached a point where it has become cool (perhaps hipster cool?) to hold Alan Moore at arms length and dismiss his work? I don’t think it is just me. It certainly feels like that was the everyreader (if not the critical) reception to Alan Moore’s Fashion Beast. Travelling around to the comic book stores in my region (my decidedly rural Canadian region, it should be stated), I have not found anyone but myself who has actually read this entire series. Two people I know read a couple of issues then stopped, and a few read the first issue but no more. Only I have read the entire series in my less than immediate vicinity.And when I’ve brought up Fashion Beast it has been to a universal cool. Even those who’ve read some of the series responded with little more than a shrug and a “meh.” This is a shame because Fashion Beast is as accomplished a piece of fiction as anything Moore’s written with (perhaps) the exception of From Hell (yes. I am actually saying it is as accomplished as Watchmen). It is a tormented and tortured retelling of Beauty and the Beast characterised by sexual ambiguity, abuse, power struggle, dystopia and psychological horror. And that is just the crust of the story. Dig deeper from the crust to the inner core and Fashion Beast is revealed to compress itself into subsurface layers of storytelling, layers we must work hard to uncover but whose uncovering is absolutely rewarding. There are layers of perception, of reality and hyperreality, of anarchy, of fascism, of evolution and human interference with evolution, of fable, of morbidity, of asexuality, of transexuality, of subjugation and domination, of class and economics, of signs and semiotics, and these are just some of what make up the earth of Fashion Beast. I have read some criticism of the screenplay structure of the tale, since it does come from an original Moore screenplay written in the eighties, because the screenplay structure doesn’t mimic the issue to issue structure of a comic narrative. I understand that feeling, and perhaps that has something to do with the response of those who’ve only read a couple of issues. This structure does mean that the story takes time to reveal its shape, but if one gives the cinematic orogenesis of Fashion Beast time, if one allows for a different pace of graphic storytelling, one will find the shape as pleasing as the more natural shapes we read everyday. I suppose it is unfair to suggest that the lack of interest in Moore has to do with hipsterism. I think, in the end, it is simply that he challenges us too much (whether in form or substance). He is like Orwell of comic book writing. Everyone says his name in hushed tones, everyone has read Animal Farm (Watchmen), and everyone claims to have read 1984 (V for Vendetta), and hard core readers (scholars and activists) have read The Road to Wigan Pier (From Dead), but going any farther is just too damn much work, so we admire Orwell (Moore) from a distance, recognize his importance, claim to be fans, but stay away — always — from the literature on the periphery. It’s easier that way. So I get that. It just bums me out because genius tends to go un(der)appreciated. ...more |
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This volume in the Death of Captain America suffers a bit from the mid-tale doldrums, but it is still a solid part of one of the best Captain America
This volume in the Death of Captain America suffers a bit from the mid-tale doldrums, but it is still a solid part of one of the best Captain America stories ever told, and I am loathe to be too critical. My favourite part of this tale, as with so many Captain America tales (especially when Cap himself is missing) is Falcon. Sam Wilson is one of the best men in the Marvel Universe. If Captain America is worthy to carry Thor's hammer, Sam is the only man I can think of who is worthy to carry Cap's shield. But here Ed Brubaker passes the shield on to Bucky, the Winter Soldier, in what is a fairly logical decision on the part of Tony Stark, then director of S*H*I*E*L*D*. It bums me out a bit, the shield passing Sam Wilson by, but the high-flying Falcon gets plenty to do in this volume, and he is the main reason to keep reading. There's plenty of other good moments scattered throughout this volume too. Hawkeye has a nice moment with Bucky; Sharon is a mess, trapped as she is with Faustus and the Red Skull; and the use of the 24-hour News network is a nice touch for telling a story of government conspiracy and corruption. Still, it is more a placeholder before the big climax than anything else, even if the slow build is much appreciated by me. I have great fear that the Death of Cap will play out at the end of Marvel Disney's Civil War in some weird montage or post credit sequence, and that would be a huge kick in the balls. I'd much rather Captain America four, bringing back the big screen Black Widow, Hawkeye, Falcon and Winter Soldier. That could be so good. Only time will tell, I suppose. Or maybe Idris Alba would tell if I could get him on the phone;) ...more |
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Chapter 1-- A little friendly violence, a little friendly homophobia, a little friendly racism, and Tony Chu and John Colby (ex-partner turned cyber-fChapter 1-- A little friendly violence, a little friendly homophobia, a little friendly racism, and Tony Chu and John Colby (ex-partner turned cyber-faced FDA newbie) are as partners-in-love as they ever were. So they start investigating a piece of shit, which leads to some pee, some more violence, a glimpse of Colby's cyborg powers and some actual detection (Batman Detective Comics could learn a valuable lesson). It is a fun though slight beginning to the second volume.Chapter 2-- Chicken is illegal in Tony Chu's world, so it is a black market item, but now, apparently, there is a plant that may taste like chicken, so Chu is off to Micronesia to track the plant (fruit?) down.Chapter 3-- Chew is satire the way Soylent Green is people -- hell, it's reminiscent of Jonathan Swift -- so the powers of Chu and others, the speculative politics, the fowl dystopia, all these elements ease our potential tension in the face of the satire and make it completely palatable -- and believable.Chapter 4-- Vampires AND a Cibolocutor. Wht's that you ask? That is a guy who can translate any work of art -- like a play or a song -- into a dish, thus transferring the emotion generated by the art into the flavour tasted by the diner. C'mon! That is cool, isn't it? Not as cool as the fact that the Vampire is on the Micronesian Isle to liberate (or eat?) the Cibopath. But Tony Chu is on the case, so look out Vampire.Chapter 5-- Another neatly and quickly wrapped arc is over, and for all the entertainmentInternational Flavourgave me I feel cheated. Things went a little too fast this time, and the plot was a little too big for five short issues....more |
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Aquaman #1-- So how does one deal with Aquaman's baggage as a lesser light in the DC Universe? How does one make him relevent when he's always been thAquaman #1-- So how does one deal with Aquaman's baggage as a lesser light in the DC Universe? How does one make him relevent when he's always been the easy target of pop culture jokes (and hisMarvelequivalent is decidely more bad ass)?Aquaman #2-- Cheesy puns aside for this issue, I promise.Aquaman #3-- The neo-uber-gila men run into too much resistance and retreat into the sea, bearing humans in goo-pods as future food, but they leave behind one of their kind, which gives Arthur / Aquaman a reason to fill Mera and us in on his background, and how his youth fits in with deluded and slightly evil Marine Biologist Stephen Shin.Aquaman #4 Aquaman and Mera track the new-uber-gila men to their lair with a hive-Queen at the center. Mera wants to kill them and do away with their "evil," but Arthur wants to protect their species and to understand them if he can. The conflict between their approaches is interesting, but there's little debate -- almost no debate. Aquaman presses on, not killing the new-uber-gila men in the process, and Mera follows unhappily.Aquaman #5 The first ten panels, which include a two page spread, are ten of the best panels I've seen. Arthur falls from the sky, and climbing out of the crater he left in the desert, he looks around and whispers, "Uh-oh." It looks gorgeous and it is scripted with sparing beauty. The rest of the issue fails to match this brilliance, however, and disappointment in this arc is truly beginning to settle in for me.Aquaman #6 Before the next arc begins, before we figure out "Who sank Atlantis?" (the big question surrounding what's to come), we get an interesting little interlude with Mera (a.k.a. Aquawoman, but don't call her that). We see her Atlantean ethics at odds with supposedly human ethics (which are always a little too benevolent in the DC universe beyond Gotham), we discover the breadth of her powers, and she makes a friend. I like her. I wonder if I will like Arthur as much as I like her the next trade around. Doubt it....more |
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Captain Atom #1 It has been so long anything with Captain Atom that I can't even remember his real name, and they helped me not a whit in this openingCaptain Atom #1 It has been so long anything with Captain Atom that I can't even remember his real name, and they helped me not a whit in this opening issue. No matter, they told us what we needed to know about him: 1. he's an ex-pilot; 2. he had a quantum accident during a mission he volunteered for that made him into Captain Atom; 3. he absorbs energy; 4. he can manipulate matter, organic or inorganic, at at least the atomic level, including himself; 5. he could on the verge of dissipating as he tries to bring his powers under control; 6. he's in some study under Dr. Megala -- a sort of Stephen Hawking for the DC universe; 7. his own safety means less than the safety of people he doesn't know; 8. So he's a hero.Captain Atom #2 Second issue in a row where Captain Atom's conflict is a problem that needs to be and can be fixed without engaging in battle. last time he absorbed the energy of a NYC volcano, and this time he goes into a kid's head (quite literally) to "attack" and eradicate the boy's brain tumour. That and the struggle to stay corporeal are the conflicts in the story. There are no big villains, no scenes of Captain Atom punching the shit out of people or attacking them with radioactive bolts, just a super-guy solving problems as peaceably as he can, which is more peaceably than anyone else I've seen. It will probably change (there is a mutated beast at the end of issues #1 & #2 that suggest there's a big traditional battle coming) but this intelligent use of his powers is refreshing while it lasts.Captain Atom #3 Captain Atom is starting to feel like a god. Nothing seems to be beyond him. He needn't eat or sleep, so he needn't stop saving lives, which takes him into the metaphysical questions only he, the Beyonder or Dr. Manhattan (and maybe a couple of others) need to ponder: Am I a God? Am I God? Does my presence disrupt God's plan?Captain Atom #4 Now the question is: Am I a weapon? The answer to this one is obvious, though, so Captain Atom must decide if he is willing to be a deterant in the "good ol' U.S. of A.'s" arsenal. It takes no time for him to make the choice, and once again, despite half the air force attacking him with missiles and bullets, he doesn't take the bellicose route. He transmutes the armaments into feathers, mooting their offensive capacity, proving his place as one of the coolest heroes around.Captain Atom #5 Twice in this issue, Captain Atom engages in classic super-heroing: the first is in a dream and leads to the disintegration of Dr. Renata Carter, one of the scientists studying him (and the one who seems to be falling in love with him), so he chooses a less destructive path when he actually goes to help Renata, taking a decidely less super-heroey path in the end; the second is in reality, and the flesh mutation beast that has been growing at the end of each comic has eaten (devoured? absorbed?) the population of an entire town, and Captain Atom loses his temper, lashing out with his energy in a very super-heroey way, but it doesn't work the way he planned, and the fleshy mutation beast grows exponentially. Then it begins -- possibly -- to devour Captain Atom himself. The super-heroey stuff has backfired. Sweet!Captain Atom #6 Freddie Williams II's art is damn good, but it is Jose Villarrubia's colours that are the true star of this book. In fact, it is the colours that are pivotal to the books art. Villarrubia's colours, the bright pastel of Captain Atom contrasted with the more naturally coloured real world, are some of the best I haveeverseen, which is fitting considering how radical the tale is....more |
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