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Doomsday Clock is more of a “Fuck You” to Moore than HBO’s Watchmen

Johns’ reconstruction of the superhero genre which Watchmen deconstructed directly undermines Moore’s message

December 25, 2019 in Comic Books, Television.

Alan Moore’s Lost Girls: Art or Smut?

“Fiction and Fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.”

October 10, 2019 in Comic Books, Editorial.

The Real Blaspheme of Mark Russell’s “Second Coming”

Second Coming is didactic to the point that the message gets in the way of solid storytelling.

July 11, 2019 in Comic Books.

Klaus and the Crying Snowman

Klaus is mythological enacting the same celestial beneficence our agrarian ancestors relied upon back when Yuletide meant something to someone for the very first time

December 19, 2018 in Comic Books.

Juxtaposing the Mundane and Marvellous in Mister Miracle

Man is egomaniacally narcissistic, sacrilegiously so. King captures the admixture of mundanity and mythology that we imagine our own to be.

August 8, 2018 in Comic Books.

Doomsday Clock #2

“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

December 27, 2017 in Comic Books.

Snyder Gets Even More Meta in Metal #4

Snyder sees the thin divide between awe and awful, between textual and metatextual. Then he burns dow that divide to ashes.

December 25, 2017 in Comic Books.

Klaus and the Crisis in Xmasville

Klaus is Christmas’ Superman, replete with red cape, an indefatigable product of the greatest imagination of our generation, a perfectly designed emblem of highest selves.

December 7, 2017 in Comic Books.

Doomsday Clock #1

After years of an admixture of apprehension and anticipation for the inevitable continuation of Watchman, Doomsday Clock #1 does not disappoint.

November 22, 2017 in Comic Books.

Metal #3 pits the Dark Knights vs. The Worlds’ Greatest Detective

Snyder’s thesis is this: Batman would not be made better by having powers; such would prove a crutch, over-reliance on which would cripple Bruce’s brilliance.

October 12, 2017 in Comic Books.

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