Showing posts with label serial monogamy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serial monogamy. Show all posts
08 November 2014

Where Serials End Up

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Someone else considering the workings of serial fiction this week was Linda Holmes, writing for NPR on the public-radio-related podcast Se...
06 November 2014

A New Chapter in Chapters

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At The New Yorker ’s Page Turner blog, Nicholas Dames has probed the history of the chapter , starting with ancient naturalists and early ...
19 August 2014

J. A. Jance and the Oz Books

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I’ve been hearing about the mystery writer J. A. Jance’s appearance at the Moravian Bookshop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, so I decided to h...
20 October 2013

More on Nightwing, #93

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the controversy over Nightwing , #93 (published in 2004), and how Wikipedia’s one-sentence description ...
07 October 2013

Al Jaffee Archive Folded into Columbia Library Collection

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When I was a boy, my favorite in MAD ’s “usual bunch of idiots” was Al Jaffee. I especially liked his Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions ...
24 September 2013

Looking in on St. Nicholas

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If I were in Manhattan Friday afternoon, instead of getting ready for MICE , I’d try to attend this lecture at the New York Public Library...
16 September 2012

The All-Too-Successful Career of Cassandra Cain

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This chart is based on sales figures that Comics Chronicle back-calculated from reports by the Diamond distributor. It shows the relative p...
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09 September 2012

Batgirl’s Unresolvable Foundational Conflicts

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Last week I started quoting from former DC Comics editor Scott Peterson ’s recollection of the creation of the second Batgirl in the lat...
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06 August 2012

Television Hierarchies and Cliffhangers

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I enjoyed Emily Nussbaum’s essay in The New Yorker on what American television-watching has become, at least on the high end: As viewers,...
13 May 2012

Doing Justice to Young Justice

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One of the most interesting aspects of the Young Justice television cartoon is how its creators have played off of, and played havoc with...
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28 April 2012

Cold Wind and the Limits of the Superhero Genre

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Cold Wind is a short adventure comic written by Dan Mazur and drawn by Jesse Lonergan , independently published by Mazur’s Ninth Art Pre...
08 April 2012

The Quick End of Red Robin

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Now that DC has published the two Red Robin volumes largely scripted by Fabian Nicieza , The Hit List and Seven Days of Death , I thought ...
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19 February 2012

The Paradoxes of Stephanie Brown’s Story

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Stephanie Brown’s biggest fans appear to have two big beefs with DC Comics: That her tenure as Robin in 2004 was planned from the start to...
07 February 2012

A Lesson from Sir Hokus

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My thoughts on the value of a ongoing characters having an unresolvable foundational conflict  have their roots, I realize, in thinking abou...
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06 February 2012

Superman’s On-Again, Off-Again Relationship

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Thinking about serial characters led me to consider Superman ’s relationship to Lois Lane, and his relationship to his unresolvable foundati...
05 February 2012

Dick Grayson’s Unresolvable Foundational Conflict

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This weekly Robin is a follow-up to last week’s ,  ToB’s comment on it , and the thoughts that inspired about how open-ended series need ma...
02 February 2012

The Second Oz Series

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When L. Frank Baum returned to the Oz series , he had left Dorothy and Ozma in a good place. Too good a place, in fact. Supposedly he was...
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01 February 2012

Characters in Need of Unresolvable Foundational Conflicts

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In a traditional story with a closed ending, we want the main characters to resolve some conflict. Bud (not Buddy) finds a family. Jim in Tr...
21 October 2011

Ness on Nesbit

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Gracious, I missed that Mari Ness at Tor was reviewing all the books by E. Nesbit ! I didn’t see a mention of how in her golden period Ne...
06 October 2011

“Books…want to be a whole lot cheaper”

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At GigaOM, Mathew Ingram contemplates the falling prices of the Kindle and other simple electronic readers, and the falling prices of simpl...