“The images are shocking, yes, but…the shock is in the act, not in the portrayal”: David Hajdu reviews Crumb’s Book of Genesis for the New York Times. If you’re not already sick of reading about the book, I’d suggest reading his review, as it’s a pretty good one.
The cartoonists were riding in a Blackhawk, relatively at ease, when suddenly the copter’s machine guns were fired”: Here’s a nice write-up of a USO-sponsored visit to the troops consisting of cartoonists Mike Peters, Tom Richmond, Jeff Bacon, Stephan Pastis, Bruce Higdon, Rick Kirkman, Chip Bok, Jeff Keane, Michael Ramirez and Garry Truedeau.
“The songs and the superheroism don’t quite gel here as well as they should. Plus, Batman should never, ever sing”: That bit of blasphemy comes from Marc Bernardin, in a post on EW‘s Pop Watch blog, referring to the musical episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, an extremely awesome episode of the extremely awesome series. Why shouldn’t Batman and his allies and foes sing? I saw no reason from watching the episdoe. And isn’t the very best Justice League Unlimited episode the one where Batman sings…?
Con war primer: If you missed a thrilling moment of last week’s escalating con wars between Reed Exhibitions and Gareb Shamus’s Wizard/Or Whatever Shamus’ Next Thing Will Be Called, Heidi MacDonald has a nice thorough overview on the subject here at The Beat.
Twin reviews of Archie #602: The latest issue of Archie, the climax of the “…Marries Veronica” possible future story (Is this the Dark Knight Returns of Archie comics?) came out this week, and both Rachelle Goguen and Tucker Stone have some thoughts about it.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:52 am
“Plus, Batman should never, ever sing”
WHAT. Blasphemy is right. If anything Batman needs to sing MORE!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:46 am
It’s time to revive Batman: The Musical!
“Superstitious, cowardly lot!
“They plot and scheme but always get caught!”
October 26th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
By “best” you mean WORST, right Caleb? I stopped watching JLU when, in back to back episodes, we had the JL turned into little children (poop jokes and all) and then Bats singing and Wonder Woman turned into a pig. I don’t care if it was Circe… It was still stupid. I eventually came back, when I heard how good the Cadmus arc was (and indeed, it was great), but that show seriously sucked for its first few episodes after the the change to JLU. I’m including the adaptation of that Alan Moore story in my assessment too.
And no, I don’t watch Brave & Bold. Nothing against those who do watch it and enjoy it, it just isn’t what I’m interested in.