A closer look at 100 bullets (issue 50) and how great comics work

100 bullets is the best selling monthly comic from DC’s Vertigo imprint written by Brian Azarello and drawn by Eduardo Risso. It has won multiple Eisner (industry award).
Some say it is part the (quentin)Tarantino-esque factor – with its dark, mysterious charming hitmen, mafia and “underground” feel – there is sure some room for comparison – [...]

why spike lee’s ‘do the right thing’ was an original film

Summarized from Closely Watched Films – book by Marilyn fabe.
The power of “Do the Right Thing” (1989) and its effectiveness as political cinema lies not in its making an airtight case that Mookie did the right thing, but in its success in opening up a dialogue between the positions of Martin Luther King and Malcom [...]

Birds tell the truth – Cobain

Birds are and always have been reincarnated old men with Tourette’s syndrome having somehow managed to dupe the reproductive saga. They fuck each other and tend to their home repairs and children while never missing their true mission …
To scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to [...]

Who killed comics by recycling superheroes?

Let’s face it; regular monthly superhero comic books have taken on the look and smell of old men’s pants. It’s hardly a surprise comics lost the teenage audience or that the adult audience is now bored and irritated
by the endless recycling of images they’ve already seen and words they’ve already read. – Grant Morrison.

Alan Moore’s no plot genius.

Famous X-men scribe Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, “if he could plot, we’d all have to get together and kill him.”
Warren Ellis defends Alan Moore on his Blog:
.. Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan’s writing, the way he develops and expresses idea and character. Plot does not define story. Plot [...]