flaggthecat

All of this talk about Michael Chabon is well and good, but the best novel ever is undisputably not written by an American in this century . . . unless Philip Roth has been saving his best work for the last years of his life.  I guess I am a Philip Roth geek.

I hope this comment isn't another one that would put you in the ground, but your review of Ruins made me interested in seeing it.  Was it not at all ironic?  Is it like The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe only it's Warren Ellis killing the Marvel Universe?  I know it wasn't packaged that way, but why did it exist? 

Music recommendations open up more possibilities than comics, as it can be directly enjoyed with friends (listening together, singing the lyrics or making parodies of them, going to shows).  Even there, though, unsolicited recommendation feels like it's seeking validation and also to make friends more like oneself.  It's cultural colonization.  How much of your mi...

General question: is there any relevent material featuring the New Gods that's not in the Fourth World Omnibus?  Having just finished that (through the magic of Interlibrary Loan), the only thing it adds to Final Crisis for me so far is knowing meta-comics things like, for example, that GMo got "super muk muks" from a single line of Kirby dialogue, or th...

Something that impresses me the more I think about the movie: everything that I didn't get upon the first (sleepy) viewing turned out to make sense.  What's with the dogs being set up as Batman's big weakness? I asked at first.  They represent the Joker, an unpredictable entity not bound by human reason.  Why did Batman call out "Rachael" to Gordon,...

@RaceMcCloud: I'm pretty much a new reader; I started reading mainstream comics in April (for the first time in my life, at the age of 25, although I was familiar with a lot of the characters from other media), and SI got me excited about reading Marvel.  I spurned DC at first, I think because I knew fewer of their characters.  I remember wondering if there were a series of...

@scott: I would imagine the quality of the storytelling has most to do with whether people like the origin story of a villain.  Godfather II is fantastically acted and directed, and so its young Vito enriches the already-seen old Vito.  On the other hand, the Star Wars prequels are poorly acted and have atrocious directing, and as a result, people were disappointed. Also, it's possi...

@RobAbsten: is there any reason you picked up Captain America White, but don't get the regular series?

I actually bought the first four issues of Resurrection before I had read anything else by Guggenheim, because I was just getting into comics, it was at the LCS (which just places things alphabetically rather than by publisher), it had cool covers, and the concept looked interesting.  Ironically, Ressurection is the book that I most recently put on probation.  The art i...