Old Is The New New

“See! Now! Our sentence is up.” That’s the last line of the last page of the last issue of The Invisibles, Grant Morrison’s pop magic comic book master work. That final issue came out right around Y2K, but it’s set on the December solstice of what was then the freaky-sounding future year 2012. All this [...]

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Jeet Heer, comics historian, on the half life of a stereotype, from the “Irish simian” to Jiggs to Homer Simpson.

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Fun, smart post about green skyscrapers, sci-fi cities, urban futurism, and Jane Jacobs in Judge Dredd’s MegaCity-One. (HT)

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The somewhat true story of Moe Berg: major league baseball player, top secret OSS agent, and would-be atomic assassin.

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I was Watching the Watchmen, I swear, but then I looked away and missed them.

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A biography of Jack Parsons, occultist and rocketeer, in comic book form.

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Scott Kaufman reports (without, alas, documentation) that Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale based their Batman on Teddy Roosevelt.

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Jim Henley dismantles a lame Newsday piece on the politics of various superheroes. “He’s a Jewish New Yorker who has never written for Commentary. You have to assume he’s a Democrat until proven otherwise.”

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Garfield without words was inspired. Garfield without Garfield was, I thought, kinda gilding that lily. But Garfield plus Garfield is the winner.

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It’s been well linked (Barista assumed it was taking the piss but I think he underestimates Chabon’s geeky earnestness) but it’s worth it: Michael Chabon on the superhero unitard. PS How good is All-Star Superman, am I right?

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