06 January 2008

Robin, the Littlest Guy in the Fight

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A month ago I quoted Jules Feiffer 's explanation of why he hated Robin, the Boy Wonder : One need only look at him to see he could figh...
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05 January 2008

Cybils 2007 Science Fiction and Fantasy Finalists

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The second annual Cybils Award season has started! Earlier this week the blogging organizers of these children's-book awards announced ...
04 January 2008

Why Hero Has Trouble Taking Off

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Yesterday I wrote that Perry Moore's debut novel Hero suffers from "much too much going on." That seems particularly evident...
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03 January 2008

Still Looking for the Great American Superhero Novel

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Perry Moore 's Hero is a novel for teens set in a world of superheroes. I've written before about this genre of prose books inspir...
02 January 2008

The Real Star of The Golden Compass?

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All along, my main question about the Golden Compass movie was whether it would get Iorek Byrnison right. Would the studio be able to find...
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01 January 2008

A Dull Adaptation, and There Wasn't Enough of It

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There's an old joke about people complaining that the food at a resort is almost inedible, and what's more, the servings are too sma...
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31 December 2007

“Alec Baldwin Has Never Been Funnier”

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A few years ago, I recall, television ads for a Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends DVD were quoting this critic's gush: "Alec Bal...
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30 December 2007

Dick Grayson Gives a Book Talk

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These panels from Batman comic books published over twenty years apart show that Dick Grayson (alias the first Robin , the Boy Wonder) had ...
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29 December 2007

Pullman Pulls for the Omniscient Narrator

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Today's Guardian newspaper offers a column by Philip Pullman about the power of narrative voice. He seems to suggest that the style o...
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Looking Back at Looking Ahead

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Today's Pullman posting prompted me to go back to some earlier posts and update their labels, which in turn made me reread my first rem...