Category: Notes

The Fault is Exhibition

By Carol on March 16, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Greg Klymkiw responds to The Globe and Mail‘s panel of film experts and their thoughts on the Canadian film industry.

LEGO Superman in LEGO Gotham City

By Carol on March 16, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

MTV Geek‘s Charles Webb got a preview of LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes. “Their latest features the Dynamic Duo teaming up with the Justice League after the Joker forms an alliance with Superman’s arch-nemesis Lex Luthor based on a story by Traveller’s Tales.” There are screenshots…

The Last President of Nigeria

By Guttersnipe on March 14, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

King Koboko tells the story of “The Last President of Nigeria” and commenters are concerned about the implications of speculative fiction and a real Nigeria. (via Nnedi Okorafor)

Jack Davis Preview

By Guttersnipe on March 14, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Fantagraphics has a video, a gallery of images and a 22 page preview of their book, Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture. The Gutter’s Editor Emeritus Ian Driscoll has more to say about Davis here.

“Why Spider-Man is the Best Character Ever”

By Guttersnipe on March 13, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Comics Alliance‘s Senior Batmanologist Chris Sims makes a moving argument for why Spider-Man is the best comic book character ever: “Those first 200 issues of Amazing Spider-Man — a run that’s downright shocking in how good it is — are essentially teenager problems on a super-heroic scale, both […]