Aerodynamics

September 16, 2008 4:11 pm @stulach -- 'Hair of Hades'

September 12, 2008 11:42 pm

@stulach & Neb -

In #27 the drawing was of a lantern (difficult to say which) whose crotch/pelvis was exploding (!).

In #28 the drawing was of the lantern symbol with a slimy eyeball in the center.

September 10, 2008 8:47 pm

The writing in this issue was very declarative.

September 10, 2008 5:51 pm I frickin' can't stand The Shark. Horrible. Just horrible.

September 10, 2008 5:20 pm

Ron's got a point -- even in the Manichean world of superhero comics there are relative shades of evil. Some villains's villainy seems to stem mostly from their opposition to the protagonist/hero, which is why someone like Catwoman, for example, can shift relatively seemlessly from "bad-guy" to "good-guy". Further, the term "evil" is cheapened by its application to the merely cruel or unethical.

September 10, 2008 4:54 pm Just curious ... how well would this comic work for someone who hasn't read the novel?

September 9, 2008 11:18 pm

I'll give 'The Stand' a try, and stick with FC: Reveleations for now.

BQ: "Pig's Eye" / The Twin Cities

September 9, 2008 8:13 pm

@ohcaroline: I think we can partially blame E.B.White for the "brevity is the soul of EVERYTHING" school of literary criticism. It's quite a shame when the fiction of the romantic period, for example, gets thrown out with this bathwater ... to mangle a metaphor.

September 9, 2008 5:35 pm

Oh god! It's the WTP (Winking Taste Police) come to take me away!

Well, as Catherine the Great was no doubt wont to say, 'two (or more) can play at that game':

 ;D

September 9, 2008 5:26 pm

Also, @BrianBaer: You're not alone there. I couldn't stomach K & C either.

Further, I don't think its off-base to discuss Chabon's work in terms of quality (and to not sequester ourselves to the purely subjective notions of style and personal preference), Pulitzer notwithstanding.