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*DON’T GIVE UP GRAEME! IT’S LIKE THE CONTINUE SCREEN IN THE OLD “NINJA GAIDEN” ARCADE GAME WHERE HE’S TIED TO THE TABLE AND THE BUZZSAW IS COMING DOWN AND THIS IS ME PUMPING QUARTERS INTO THE SLOT BECAUSE IT CAN’T END LIKE THIS!
DON’T LET GO! YOU’VE GOT THE MUSIC IN YOU!!!
*I was already to whip up a big minicomics roundup and look what happened: I got more in the mail. So there’s gonna be a real huge minis review journey coming up soon, probably Monday. There will be so many good comics that we will all yell.
*My fresh new issue of “Entertainment Weekly” arrived today, with Lindsay Lohan on the cover wearing only a pair of stockings. Nobody makes an ‘overexposure’ joke anywhere from my perusal, so I’m kind of let down. It’s the big Breakout Stars of 2004 issue, which means the front half will be pretty much non-stop fluff (I know, big difference from the rest of the year) although there’s an awesome picture of “Super Size Me” director Morgan Spurlock posing in a crucifixion position holding cheeseburgers with ketchup dripping from his palms like he’s stigmatic. Oh but there’s more than just delightful sacrilege in this week’s issue, there’s comics too. The Listen 2 This section has a short positive blurb for Les Daniels and Chip Kidd’s “The Golden Age of DC Comics - 365 Days” book, which consists entirely of bits and pieces of Golden Age comics art, one per page for each day of the year, with accompanying text on the equivalent facing page. With Kidd on board you can bank on plenty of humorous/ironic out-of-context page details with loving attention paid to each crinkle and tear in those aged yellow sheets. I’m still attracted to this sort of stuff though; flipping through in a bookstore I got the feeling that it‘s a fun little brick of designer comics scrapbooking. Meanwhile, over in the Books section, there’s a batch of comics reviews, including “Superman: Birthright” (A-) “Will Eisner’s John Law, Detective: Dead Man Walking” (B) and “New Avengers” #1 (C+, with reviewer Tom Sinclair dismissing new team members Wolverine, Daredevil, and Spidey as “shamelessly overused”). Plus, there’s a teeny mention of Harvey Pekar‘s new “American Splendor: Our Movie Year”, a book that in part collects strips Pekar (and Robert Crumb!) did for EW. And there’s a mocking jab at “Spider-Man India”.
The Movies section also features a lukewarm review of “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou”, which concludes with Owen Gleiberman wondering when Wes Anderson will ever take “that crucial step forward” from his favored style, exactly the sort of critical reaction that I’ve been anticipating! And Lisa Schwarzbaum positively slams “Ocean’s Twelve”, so it’s good reading all around.
DON’T LET GO! YOU’VE GOT THE MUSIC IN YOU!!!
*I was already to whip up a big minicomics roundup and look what happened: I got more in the mail. So there’s gonna be a real huge minis review journey coming up soon, probably Monday. There will be so many good comics that we will all yell.
*My fresh new issue of “Entertainment Weekly” arrived today, with Lindsay Lohan on the cover wearing only a pair of stockings. Nobody makes an ‘overexposure’ joke anywhere from my perusal, so I’m kind of let down. It’s the big Breakout Stars of 2004 issue, which means the front half will be pretty much non-stop fluff (I know, big difference from the rest of the year) although there’s an awesome picture of “Super Size Me” director Morgan Spurlock posing in a crucifixion position holding cheeseburgers with ketchup dripping from his palms like he’s stigmatic. Oh but there’s more than just delightful sacrilege in this week’s issue, there’s comics too. The Listen 2 This section has a short positive blurb for Les Daniels and Chip Kidd’s “The Golden Age of DC Comics - 365 Days” book, which consists entirely of bits and pieces of Golden Age comics art, one per page for each day of the year, with accompanying text on the equivalent facing page. With Kidd on board you can bank on plenty of humorous/ironic out-of-context page details with loving attention paid to each crinkle and tear in those aged yellow sheets. I’m still attracted to this sort of stuff though; flipping through in a bookstore I got the feeling that it‘s a fun little brick of designer comics scrapbooking. Meanwhile, over in the Books section, there’s a batch of comics reviews, including “Superman: Birthright” (A-) “Will Eisner’s John Law, Detective: Dead Man Walking” (B) and “New Avengers” #1 (C+, with reviewer Tom Sinclair dismissing new team members Wolverine, Daredevil, and Spidey as “shamelessly overused”). Plus, there’s a teeny mention of Harvey Pekar‘s new “American Splendor: Our Movie Year”, a book that in part collects strips Pekar (and Robert Crumb!) did for EW. And there’s a mocking jab at “Spider-Man India”.
The Movies section also features a lukewarm review of “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou”, which concludes with Owen Gleiberman wondering when Wes Anderson will ever take “that crucial step forward” from his favored style, exactly the sort of critical reaction that I’ve been anticipating! And Lisa Schwarzbaum positively slams “Ocean’s Twelve”, so it’s good reading all around.
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