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The Best of Simon and Kirby

When I first opened this coffee table book, I expected more text, fewer comics, but it’s not that kind of retrospective. Instead, The Best of Simon and Kirby is a sampler of the many types of work Joe Simon and Jack Kirby produced over their long career in comics, with over two dozen comic stories reprinted. Grouped by genre — heroes, science fiction, war and adventure, romance, crime, western, horror, and sick humor — each section has an introductory essay […]

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Watchmen: Director’s Cut

I was happy I went into this “blind”, not having seen the movie in theaters. At the time Watchmen came out, I was kind of tired of hearing about it, so now I could approach it with fewer preconceptions. Plus, since the director’s cut is now about three hours long, I appreciated being able to pause it as needed. An extra 25 minutes have been added into this version, promoted as “more Rorschach and a scene of Hollis Mason’s death”. […]

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Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991

Zot! changed my life. The 36-issue comic series by Scott McCloud ran from 1984 to 1991. It started as a manga-influenced light-hearted superhero series, but by the end, McCloud was telling powerful stories about everyday life as a teen. McCloud is better known today as the author of Understanding Comics, a non-fiction exploration of the format; its followup, Reinventing Comics, which examines technology; and a how-to book, Making Comics. But he originally started with this series, an homage to the […]

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Green Lantern: Interview With Tricia Helfer

It’s only a couple of weeks until Green Lantern: First Flight arrives, so here’s the latest in a series of interviews provided by Warner Home Video. This time it’s Tricia Helfer, the voice of Boodikka, and geek-favorite actress from Battlestar Galactica. QUESTION: What did you seek to convey vocally as Boodikka? TRICIA HELFER: Boodikka’s a fighter, a protector. She is very honorable in that she does what she thinks is right, even if some things go against the grain. She’s […]

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Twilight Manga Announced

Putting out a Twilight manga is a perfect combination for the teen girl target audience. No specific release date has been announced, but publisher Yen Press should have a huge hit, especially if they can get it out around the July 2010 date of the third movie. (I’m guessing November of this year, when the second film, New Moon, is due, is too soon.) Art is by Korean artist Young Kim, which makes me think it will be left-to-right, which […]

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A Distant Neighborhood Volume 1

The latest translated manga by Jiro Taniguchi follows a plot familiar to most science fiction fans. In A Distant Neighborhood, a middle-aged business man finds himself reliving his life as a teen, with the potential chance of doing things over, better. By mistake, Hiroshi Nakahara gets on the wrong train and finds himself in his home town on the anniversary of his mother’s death. After he visits her grave, he returns to town to discover that he’s become his 14-year-old […]

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Kabuki: The Alchemy

David Mack brings his long-running series full-circle in Kabuki: The Alchemy with a mind-bending conclusion. Kabuki, formerly an assassin, has escaped from the institution where she was being kept in Metamorphosis and is seeking the mysterious friend who helped her, a woman she’s never seen. But as the character says to the reader early on, “All you need to know is that there is a scar on my face, I’m starting a new life, and I have a friend who […]

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Green Lantern: Interview With Writer Alan Burnett

Green Lantern: First Flight, the next DC Universe direct-to-DVD animated movie, is written by Alan Burnett. Burnett began scripting episodes of Batman: The Animated Series in 1991; he has won four Emmy Awards. His animation career began with Super Friends in 1981. In the following interview, provided by the WB publicity department, Burnett discusses his plot inspirations, how the structure was developed, the problems of writing Green Lantern, his approach to Sinestro, and his writing influences. QUESTION: What made Alan […]

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