Elfquest, and Conceptual Space
In conceiving View from the Gutters, one thing we agreed about early on was that we didn???t want to just do another review show where we yacked about which issues we???d picked up new that week. We...
View ArticleDC and the Evolution of Superheroes
In my previous post I talked about the idea of conceptual space and how fictional works that bend or defy genre classification can reveal new and interesting creative dimensions. I wanted to continue...
View ArticleThe Collaborative Universe
I spent my last post bashing on DC pretty hard, so this week I wanted to take a more positive tack and talk about one of the things I really like about superhero comics, at least as practiced by Marvel...
View ArticleRuminations on a Spit Curl, Part 1
There are few characters in comics that are as misunderstood and dismissed as the one called The Man of Steel. So I figured we could have a little talk about Superman through the filter of pop culture....
View ArticleI Think Every Superhero You Love Should Be Dead (or, On the Nature of Time)
This week on the podcast we???re reading Warren Ellis???s Planetary, which is one of my very favorite comic books. I highly recommend it to you if you???ve never read it, because I find that every time...
View ArticleNarrative Gravity: The Weight of the Universe
In my last post I talked about about the nature of time in the context of superheroes, and I feel that there was one important point I didn???t hit upon that I still want to discuss. It has to do with...
View ArticleWe Need to Have a Talk About Bruce (Why Everything You Know About Batman Is...
This year marks the 75th ???birthday??? of Batman, arguably one of the most popular comic book superheroes on the planet. While Bats has been in the public eye for years recently Batman has reached...
View ArticleCade’s Corner
Sometimes life sucks. Sometimes we all have depressing moments. Sometimes things seem as though they can’t get any worse. Sometimes you need some ???outside??? force to make things better. Outside in...
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Between the Serial and the Episodic
Comic books have issues. Or perhaps I should say that I have issues with issues of comics? No that’s not right. I have a problem with the way in which comic books are numbered. There it is. If I...
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The Digital Future of Comics
In a recent episode of the podcast??we spoke in passing about the ???future of comics,??? in the context of digital releases. In that conversation we touched on both motion comics and infinite comics,...
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There Must Always Be An Elseworlds
A few weeks ago a link went past me to a page from an old issue of Captain America. It was a story in which a fake Captain America takes up Cap’s identity in order to support an organization called...
View ArticleThe Modern Age(s)
Last year I set myself the task of trying to in some way explain or contextualize Hickman???s run on the Avengers. I struggled and failed to explain what I was feeling then, which was that Hickman???s...
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