A Deep Six’d Publication
Writer: Scott Bryan Wilson Artist: Juan Gedeon DC Comics, October 2021 Pennyworth, featuring long-time comic book butler and aide-de-camp to Batman, Alfred Pennyworth, is a limited series currently being published by DC Comics. A cynic might say that the timing of this comic book’s release is intended to coincide with the latest, long-delayed James Bond…
Read More about Pennyworth #1 (of 7) (review)
Writer: Rodney Barnes Artist: Selina Espiritu Lion Forge, 2019 IMAGINE THE SURFACE OF REALITY skims past in a wave of ungraspable details, making a visible current in the elapsing moment as one’s self stands unmoved and unmovable, untouched in the center, filling with holy power as all things as “things” dissolve, and one’s magnified self…
Read More about Quincredible (revisited)—“When the levee breaks got no place to stay”
by Various Artists and Bozos Kitchen Sink, 1992 RUMMAGING AROUND FUTURE DREAMS overstuffed comics and books fantasy shop, I turned over a neglected stack on a bottom shelf and found a square envelope with a logo I immediately recognized: a totem of wings spread down and across, framing a tousled heart in the corner with…
Read More about Images of “Omaha The Cat Dancer” (1992) (review): Benefit for Reed Waller—“Love is all around”
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Michael Avon Oeming DC Comics, May 2019 (as a collection) RUNNING DOGS OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM used to designate characters who emulate the virtues of capitalism from the sidelines, like a dog running alongside a bus with a wagging tongue. In China the label was intended to be nasty, like…
Read More about Takio (revisited)—“Charged-up girls take charge”