Maybe this is just an internet thing, but it seems like in every comic site and message board I've ever frequented, it seems like the majority of commenters hate Kelley Jones. I think they're nuts, personally - I think Kelley Jones' art is never less than stylish and interesting, and sometimes brilliant - but I guess…
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I agree with this entirely, especially after being curious discovering him in Season of Mists and researching Susanoo-no-Mikoto: he's a storm god, very much in a Thor mold, tempestuous, cruel, and capricious (as one would expect of the storm god of a fishing-dependent island people). Gaiman sadly goes for an effete,…
I agree with this entirely, especially after being curious discovering him in Season of Mists and researching Susanoo-no-Mikoto: he's a storm god, very much in a Thor mold, tempestuous, cruel, and capricious (as one would expect of the storm god of a fishing-dependent island people). Gaiman sadly goes for an effete,…
If he really likes something, he can always make it seem like the most brilliant, important, unjustly unrecognized thing ever. And of course, his takedowns, while about the epitome of crank ravings, are always highly entertaining.
If he really likes something, he can always make it seem like the most brilliant, important, unjustly unrecognized thing ever. And of course, his takedowns, while about the epitome of crank ravings, are always highly entertaining.
Todd Klein's distinctive use of typography, starting with this book, was my first notion of a letterer as a creative contributor in his/her own right.
Todd Klein's distinctive use of typography, starting with this book, was my first notion of a letterer as a creative contributor in his/her own right.
This is also when I first started reading Sandman - Season of Mists #0 was the first issue of he series I ever purchased, starting a long, fruitful relationship that I intend to continue (I'd like to reread Sandman every ten years or so). I very much agree that this is where the series long arc really gets started,…
This is also when I first started reading Sandman - Season of Mists #0 was the first issue of he series I ever purchased, starting a long, fruitful relationship that I intend to continue (I'd like to reread Sandman every ten years or so). I very much agree that this is where the series long arc really gets started,…
What Enkidum said - this ethereal, twee notion of faeries is mostly modern bullshit. (I blame Brian Froud.) The term "faerie" originally encompassed a whole beastly menagerie of complete assholes (some pretty, most ugly) mostly classified by all the different ways they try to fuck up your shit. (This one kicks over…
What Enkidum said - this ethereal, twee notion of faeries is mostly modern bullshit. (I blame Brian Froud.) The term "faerie" originally encompassed a whole beastly menagerie of complete assholes (some pretty, most ugly) mostly classified by all the different ways they try to fuck up your shit. (This one kicks over…
Hempel? Amateurish? Matters of taste are matters of taste, but sorry, that's just not correct. His art in Kindly Ones is actually really tight and carefully chosen, but perhaps as his linework has a quick, swooping feel, and he relies a lot on suggestion of forms rather than fine details, you've taken that for…
Hempel? Amateurish? Matters of taste are matters of taste, but sorry, that's just not correct. His art in Kindly Ones is actually really tight and carefully chosen, but perhaps as his linework has a quick, swooping feel, and he relies a lot on suggestion of forms rather than fine details, you've taken that for…
Ten thousand years of wrongful imprisonment is a long time - long enough to realize that nurturing bitterness, and an inability to forgive, is only going to make one's stay even worse. In fact, it's kind of the only way to stay unbroken, if one is to endure Hell.
Ten thousand years of wrongful imprisonment is a long time - long enough to realize that nurturing bitterness, and an inability to forgive, is only going to make one's stay even worse. In fact, it's kind of the only way to stay unbroken, if one is to endure Hell.
Love Jonathan Carroll. I think since so many of his stories are about mortality, in one way or another, it helps to be a little older to appreciate them. Never did read Bones, though - I even ordered it in one of those "Book of The Month Club" deals when I was a kid (a pricey scam, but it did introduce me to a lot…
Love Jonathan Carroll. I think since so many of his stories are about mortality, in one way or another, it helps to be a little older to appreciate them. Never did read Bones, though - I even ordered it in one of those "Book of The Month Club" deals when I was a kid (a pricey scam, but it did introduce me to a lot…
One of my favorite comic panels - and a surprisingly tender kiss, despite it being a close-up of a flayed demoness getting frenched by the Prince of Darkness.
One of my favorite comic panels - and a surprisingly tender kiss, despite it being a close-up of a flayed demoness getting frenched by the Prince of Darkness.
1. Live and Let Die
2. Goldfinger
3. Nobody Does It Better
4. We Have All The Time In The World
5. You Only Live Twice