30 November 2010

All the Way Around the Half-Continent

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At last I have a matched set! Kind of. Some readers were bowled over by D. M. Cornish ’s Monster Blood Tattoo and its sequels. I wasn’t one...
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29 November 2010

Two Ways of Building a Balanced Audience

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In yesterday’s posting about the Young Justice TV cartoon , I quoted from an interview with the producers . Among the non-Robin-centric thi...
28 November 2010

A New Role for Robin in Young Justice

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The Cartoon Network debuted its new Young Justice cartoon on Friday. This series takes place in a different universe from those of the 1998...
26 November 2010

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in Germany

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This week I heard a BBC report that the late Hawai’ian singer Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s recording of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” has been #1...
25 November 2010

(Ahem) Getting a Little Hungry Out Here!

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24 November 2010

News That Would Break His Heart

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This week the Associated Press issued a story about tests it commissioned on drinking glasses bought at the Warner Brothers Studio store. T...
23 November 2010

The Of Thee I Sing Sign-Off

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Back in March 2009, the news media was a flutter with remarks on “President Obama’s New Book Deal.” I wrote an analysis of those news articl...
22 November 2010

Yummy: There Is No Rosebud Here

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I remembered the case of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer from 1994 before reading Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty . I didn’t remember the...
21 November 2010

Is There a Great Nightwing Story?

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In a September essay at The Comics Cube, Duy wrote , “A lot of comics fans - myself included - would name Dick Grayson as one of their all-t...
20 November 2010

Comics for Guys Only?

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Graphic Novel Reporter is featuring an interview with Bill Zimmerman about his new book, Your Life in Comics . One notable aspect of this p...