50 Percent More Ninja

July 2003

Tales of the City

July 30, 2003

Very little came out this week that’s worth talking about (except for the DC reprints of Superman’s Pal: Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby. But I want to talk about that for when it got really weird), so it’s to the back catalogue and one of my all-time favorites (pop-pickers). Minimum Wage by Bob Fingerman, published [...]

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Cute Goths

July 23, 2003

Neil Gaimans The Sandman was one of comics most finest slice of story-telling. Alan Moore’s The Saga of the Swamp Thing may have created the Vertigo line, but The Sandman defined it. It also brought about some of the worst aspects of comics. Whilst on one hand it could be witty, daring and exciting, it [...]

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Teenage Kicks

July 16, 2003

Battle Royale is one of the most innovative movies to come out of Japan in the last few years. I’m sure most of us have seen it so I won’t go into the storyline too much, but a few things always bothered me about it. There was no really good reason for the show. It [...]

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Past Times

July 9, 2003

YES!!!!!!!!! They’re BACK, BACK, BACK !!!!!!!!! Its the `80′s all over again as DC let the maniacs back onto the JLA. Believe it or not, the eighties were a great time. Don’t listen to most of the media who deride it,most of them were too young to remember (cue most of those I Love The [...]

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Handbags and Gladrags

July 4, 2003

An overdose of books this week as quite a few decent ones have turned up. First off is one that I’ve not started to read yet as its a normal book about comics The Pirates and the Mouse by Bob Levin relates the tale of Dan O’Neill, a popular underground comix artist who fell foul [...]

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