Welcome, dear failures, to the penultimate #AuthorFail…super-hero edition. My Schnide-y sense is tingling, and it says this column will soon go the way of the dodo. Until then, let us revel in our ineptitude. **** The Shadow. The Spider. G-8. I thought of these pulp heroes on seeing the first Burton Batman movie, and as [...]
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DIY Geek Cinema
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AKJAK, Aliens Vs. Predator, Andrew Koenig, animation, Batman, Batman: Dead End, Black Widow Gone Wild, Blade Runner, Chris Latta, comiquero, cosplay, Dark Hose Comics, DC Comics, fan-cinema, fandom, geek culture, George Lucas, Iron Man, Lord of the Rings, Mega-Man, Michael Bay, Mike Stoklasa, Patrick Boivin, Sandy Collora, Star Wars, Starscreem, Tim Burton, Transformers, Vader Sessions, Walter Koenig on March 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
For a long time I’ve held an ambiguous attitude toward geek culture, and ultra-fandom. On the one hand, it’s painfully disturbing how much time some people lavish over recreating their favorite fantasy franchises, whether they while away the hours writing fan-fiction, painting fan-art, sewing cosplay costumes, compiling guides to their favorite shows and films and [...]
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Can Negative Publicity Help?", Against Interpretation, Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alan T. Sorensen, Annette Atkins, Ari Up, Banksy, Batman, Britney Spears, David Bordwell, Down with Love, Film Art, Frank Kermode, Frank Miller, Greg Gerke, Harry Mathews, Hollis Frampton, Inception, Jack Horkheimer, James Peterson, Jean Luc Godard, Jeremy M. Davies, Jonah Berger, Kristin Thompson, Last Year at Marienbad, Mai 68, mnemonics, Peter Wyngarde, Peyton Reed, Rose Alley, Scott J. Rasmussen, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Steve Katz, Susan Sontag, Tao Lin, teaching history backwards, The Sense of an Ending, Zorn's Lemma on November 14, 2010 | 10 Comments »
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor of a small journal. You open your email and see that you’ve received 1,000 unsolicited submissions. The first ten were sent by: Carlos Shirley Jeanne Goss Jack Livingston Christine Stribling Melissa Mathieu Benjamin Tatro Tao [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 6
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apocalypse, Batman, Batman XXX, Corto Maltese, Frank Kermode, Frank Miller, Lynn Varley, nuclear winter, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Sense of an Ending, Theory of Prose, Viktor Shklovsky, Vivid Entertainment on June 28, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 7 | Part 8 Greetings again after much too long a while. Since the last installment in this series, the new pornographers at Vivid have announced, written, shot, and released Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, so it’s well past [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, Batman: Dead End, Corto Maltese, David Letterman, Frank Miller, Hugo Pratt, Neal Adams, Orson Welles, Ronald Reagan, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Lady from Shanghai on April 14, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Monday was David Letterman‘s birthday, making this an okey-dokey time to talk about Book Three of The Dark Knight Returns, “Hunt the Dark Knight”… Let’s plunge right into it!
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, DC Comics, Frank Miller, Lynn Varley, scott mccloud, The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Mark of Zorro, Understanding Comics on March 15, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Part one of this series surveyed Miller’s comics work prior to his landmark 1986 miniseries Batman: The Dark Knight Returns; part two summarized the innovations in printing technology that Miller and his colorist Lynn Varley [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Detective Comics, Dick Giordano, Frank Miller, Hergé, Klaus Janson, Lynne Varley, Ronin, scott mccloud, The Dark Knight Returns, Tintin, Understanding Comics, Watchmen, X-Men on February 8, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Frank Miller released the sixth and last issue of Ronin in August 1984. Not everyone was sure what to make of the limited series, but Miller and his colorist, Lynn Varley, emerged from the project [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 300, A Contract with God, Batman, Chris Claremont, comics, cyberpunk, Daredevil, DC, Elektra, First Comics, Frank Miller, Gold Key, Goseki Kojima, graphic novels, Harvey Kurtzman, Jenette Kahn, Kazuo Koike, Lone Wolf and Cub, Lynn Varley, manga, Marvel Comics, Robert Crumb, Robert Rodriguez, Ronalds Printing, Ronin, Sin City, The Comics Journal, The Dark Knight Returns, The Spirit, Uncanny X-Men, will eisner, Wolverine, Zack Snyder on January 23, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 These days, Frank Miller is arguably best-known as a filmmaker. He co-directed Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of his long-running comic Sin City (1991–present), which he followed with his own peculiar 2008 adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic [...]
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