James Poniewozik on Lost and Heroes: “Put another way: you have to be willing to suck if you ever want to be great. ‘Awesome’ and ‘awful’ are actually closer to each other on the continuum of quality than either is to ‘meh.’”
Oh, such a kerfuffle about Roger Ebert’s review of Kick-Ass and his blog piece, “Videogames Can Never Be Art.”
The comics misunderstanding (i.e. respectful critical discussion) continues at The Groovy Age of Horror as Scott McCloud responds, a commenter gets in a dig and Curt Purcell writes more about homeostasis and how human brains process information. Geek fight! C’mon, fight! Fight?
It’s Black History Mumf at Big Media Vandalism and the Odienator provides a recap of his film reviews here.
Glen Weldon writes about the comics that stuck to his “teflon-coated brain”in 2009. Blair Butler shares her best of stand alone and stand outs as well as her best ongoing series. Meanwhile, Brian Cronin completes his year of cool comic book moments and begins his year of cool […]
The Comics Journal goes fully online, and give you a brief history of comics criticism
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