That night began just like every other night. I sat in my car. My car sat in an empty parking lot. The black grit some barista had the nerve to call coffee kept me warm enough. Headlights flashed through my passenger-side windows. I perked up and turned down the radio as a Jeep pulled into the parking lot and cruised over in my general direction. He was late, as usual. If he’s always late, and I show up early, am I the one with the problem? […]
An objectively great comic that I didn’t enjoy and don’t want to read anymore
If you know anything at all about comics, then you know Brian K Vaughan. You know him for good reason. He wrote Y: the Last Man, Ex Machina (the comic, not the movie), and also worked on tv’s LOST. Y is one of my favorite examples of a uniquely comic book-based story, as well as an example that comics can deal with adult themes while also being entertaining. Ex Machina is interesting for its political elements and themes (if not its art. LOST is one […]
Bad Feet
Dancer is a trade paperback collection of Nate Edmondson’s five part series of the same name. It was published by Image in 2012. In the first chapter, a grizzled old American and his Irish ballerina girlfriend are chased by police and an assassin. The assassin, it turns out, looks an awfully lot like the grizzled old American.On paper, Dancer sounds like a fantastic book. Image has been on fire, lately, Edmondson is working on major books like Punisher and Black Widow, and the premise is […]