The bile no longer rises in my throat
Rereading Marshal Law vs Pinhead: Law In Hell, Marshal Law: Secret Tribunal, Marshal Law & Savage Dragon and Marshal Law & The Mask by Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill. The final part of a dialogue about Marshal Law with Joe McCulloch, blogger, contributor to the Comic Books Are Burning In Hell podcast and writer for The Comics Journal, no less. … Continue reading
So many exotic variations on nothing
Rereading Marshal Law Takes Manhattan and Marshal Law: Kingdom of the Blind by Pat Mills, Kevin O’Neill, Mark A Nelson and Mark Chiarelllo. The second part of a dialogue about Marshal Law with Joe McCulloch, blogger, contributor to the Comic Books Are Burning In Hell podcast and writer for The Comics Journal no less. ME: … Continue reading
A leather-clad Tinkerbell
Rereading Marshal Law: Fear & Loathing by Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill. I’m joined for a dialogue about Marshal Law with Joe McCulloch, blogger, contributor to the Comic Books Are Burning In Hell podcast and writer for The Comics Journal no less. ME: I came into the recently published Marshal Law Deluxe hardcover with a … Continue reading
Think of me instead as a watchman
Rereading Earth X by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, John Paul Leon and Bill Reinhold. In the quarter-century since the Dark Age of comics and the graphic novel revolution, my tastes have changed. Realism is no longer something I look for. Superheroes are pretty much played out. The whole seriousness that I demanded from comics, that … Continue reading
Kill all the superheroes
Rereading Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis. In a way, we were quite lucky with Captain Britain. Okay, so he was an aristocrat given superpowers by Merlin at Stonehenge who wore a rampant lion over a Union Jack on his chest, but it could have been much worse. For example, this letter from … Continue reading
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