Comments on: AIT/Planet Lar Graphic Novels 2006-2007

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Martian Confederacy Out This Week » Comics Worth Reading — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:25:21 +0000

[...] Released this week was The Martian Confederacy, a new sci-fi adventure graphic novel written by Jason McNamara (First Moon, Continuity) and drawn by Paige Braddock (Jane’s World). [...]

By: AIT Graphic Novels 2008 » Comics Worth Reading

AIT Graphic Novels 2008 » Comics Worth Reading — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:19:32 +0000

[...] on from my two-year (2006-2007) roundup of AIT/Planet Lar graphic novels, here’s what they’ve released so far in [...]

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Larry Young Argues for Optimism » Comics Worth Reading — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:35:17 +0000

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By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:18:51 +0000

It’s true, I suspect that projects like that are going to have a much wider range of response, because of its experimentalism.

By: Johnny B

Johnny B — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:52:31 +0000

…story ideas, I meant to say.

By: Johnny B

Johnny B — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:52:04 +0000

I mean, you're not saying that "surreal" covers all sins? Nah, it doesn't cover all sins- no more so than any other style/genre/whatever. It's hard to quantify. What seems fresh and clever to me won't always seem the same way to others. Me, I thought Last Sane Cowboy was a wonderfully surreal collection of ideas, and "wacky" (and certainly not "pretentious"- Goodbrey wasn't putting on airs) didn't do them justice. The pseudo-Xeroxed art style, something I ordinarily have little use for, helped give it an even weirder edge. You disagree, and that's fine- free internet, and all that. Just wanted to take up for that particular GN, which I liked a lot. FWIW, we agree on First Moon, which I liked more than i thought I would...

By: Tommy Raiko

Tommy Raiko — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:05:36 +0000

“To be perfectly honest, When I saw “Black Diamond” I thought is was Eddie Campbell’s Black Diamond Detective Agency.”

To be embarrassingly honest myself, whenever I hear of either SLG’s or Eddie Campbell’s “Black Diamond,” I think of the old AC comic book “Black Diamond” connected with B-movie queen Sybil Danning…

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:33:53 +0000

To be perfectly honest, When I saw “Black Diamond” I thought is was Eddie Campbell’s Black Diamond Detective Agency.
The “Holmes” book sounds interesting, but Sherlock Holmes “Addiction” to cocaine is overplayed way too much outside of the Canon. Did you know that Holmes only used cocaine in only two stories of the Doyle Canon? This absurd fascination began with the book The Seven-Per-Cent Solution from the 1970′s. Hell, everyone else was on drugs at that time so why shouldn’t the worlds greatest detective? I realize authors try to dig up flaws in our heroes to make them more human then super-human. But please, just let it go and let our heroes be just that – heroes.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:02:28 +0000

I know what I do isn’t for everybody, but this was pretty much the worst review my book’s received, in what has generally been a very positive critical response since it came out last April.

If any other reviewers are reading this and would like a chance to judge The Last Sane Cowboy for themselves, drop me an e-mail to merlin@e-merl.com and I’ll set you up with a PDF of the book to review.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:29:23 +0000

I think CCL’s “I’ve never heard of any of them” is my favorite response and a cogent epitaph.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:28:29 +0000

No, the implausible can be fun, too — but you’re gambling that your reader will be carried away enough to overlook the gaps.

“Surrealism” can be good or bad, well-done or not, right? I mean, you’re not saying that “surreal” covers all sins?

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Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:01:06 +0000

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By: Johnny B

Johnny B — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:03:00 +0000

My first reaction is to ask if something has to be “plausibile” to be “great fun”. The next is to wonder (in the case of Last Sane Cowboy) if there’s any place for surrealism and ideas that are outside the norm, or “wacky”, in your definition of what constitutes “good” from “bad”.

Not judging one way or the other, just asking.

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Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:36:37 +0000

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