Ameer

September 27, 2008 1:35 am

Somehow I missed that this came out. I read through my stack and ended up with Captain America as my pick (although i have to say, Jason Aaron's Black Panther-Secret Invasion story was really good. I know he's new, but I don't know that there's a more promising talent out there. Reminds me of when Greg Rucka busted onto the scene.)

Then I saw that this was the pick and I realized I'd missed it. I went back today, before reading the review, and jeez. This was amazing. I had a grin on my face from the beginning that grew into a full-on smile during the Peter Parker section, and then turned into a laugh on the last couple of pages. Marvelous.

September 18, 2008 11:06 am I love this feature. Can we make it a regular one? Please??

August 22, 2008 3:42 pm Hm, maybe I should be reading RIP. I was just going to wait until a hardcover or trade came out, but if something this big is going to be revealed, I'm not sure I want to wait...

August 7, 2008 12:30 pm Some people can't praise one thing without trashing something else.

May 16, 2008 8:07 am

Conor, this was a really good, really interesting piece. I get where you're coming from. But I don't think you have anything to worry about. High fashion and celebrity fashion culture is not influential enough to really have any lasting effect, bad or good, on how people view comic books. Comic book culture is much more powerful and widespread and consistent, I think. Movies are changing how people view comic books, but I don't think a show at the Met will do much, one way or the other. It's important to remember that fashion is, by its very nature, faddish. Comic books are "in fashion" for now, and will quickly disappear from that world in a few weeks.

And in any case, the show is terrible--I saw it last weekend. First of all, I've never seen a bigger sell-out show at the Met. The content and rationalization for the show is weak and amateurish. Much of it reads like a college term paper, and some of it doesn't even make sense. The best part about it is a wall display that has nothing to do with fashion, but instead has glass boxes holding a number of the most famous comic books ever published (Action Comics #1, first appearance of Spiderman, This Man This Monster, etc.) THAT is cool to see.