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TRADE WAITING #14: Week of December 8, 2021

TRADE WAITING #14: Week of December 8, 2021

Graphic novels. Collected editions. Omnibuses. Trades. These are really all just words for “a kickass way to read comics”. So, with this column we’re going to look at all of those kickass bound pages that are hitting comic shops, bookstores and online outlets this week! (Note that in some instances, the release dates to comic

Like Clockwork: The Importance of WATCHMEN, Part 1

Few comics embody perfection the way Watchmen does. Because of the significance it had on comics which would come after it, the simplicity/complexity of the nine-panel grid, and the genre up-ending plot, it is probably going to be impossible to say anything about Moore and Gibbon’s masterpiece that isn’t just in some other way repeating

Review: DOOMSDAY CLOCK #5

DOOMSDAY CLOCK #5 Written by Geoff Johns Art by Gary Frank, Brad Anderson, and Rob Leigh Edited by Brian Cunningham and Amedeo Turturro Published by DC Comics Release Date: May 30, 2018 It’s all beginning to come together. Characters are meeting, storylines are converging and progressing, and the Doomsday Clock continues to tick with ample

Review: DOOMSDAY CLOCK #2

DOOMSDAY CLOCK #2 Written by Geoff Johns Art by Gary Frank, Brad Anderson, and Rob Leigh Edited by Brian Cunningham and Amedeo Turturro Published by DC Comics Release Date: December 27, 2017 After last issue’s hints and teases, DC characters finally meet Watchmen characters, with explosive results. In this installment of Doomsday Clock, Ozymandias, Rorschach,

The Walden Connection in DOOMSDAY CLOCK, Part 3

Promising paradise or threatening hell-fire is, we assumed, generally admitted to be unproductive. It is based upon a fundamental fraud which, when discovered, turns the individual against society and nourishes the very thing it tries to stamp out. What Jesus offered in return of loving one’s enemies was heaven on earth, better known as peace

The Walden Connection in DOOMSDAY CLOCK, Part 2

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled. – B.F. Skinner, Walden Two  

The Walden Connection in DOOMSDAY CLOCK, Part 1

Quick! Think of one of the most important books in American literature. While there are many reasonable answers to this question, works such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Gone With the Wind, it might seem reasonable that you’d be confused if you heard somebody answer “B. F. Skinner’s Walden Two!” I was confused when I

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