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Saturday, April 8, 2023
Broken Frontier in Review 4/8
A great variety of reviews to bring in Spring at our favorite comics website.
SEVEN POINT TWO NINE reviewed by Andy Oliver
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
New Comics in April Part One
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Sunday, April 2, 2023
Five Highlights from The Comics Journal 35
THE COMICS JOURNAL #35 (June 1977)
GUEST EDITORIAL: Doug Fratz details the first in a long, long line of financial troubles for Gary Groth, Mike Catron, and THE COMICS JOURNAL. Fratz reveals TCJ has a circulation of 3,000 with Gary Groth in debt $5,000.00. That seems like a HUGE amount of money for 1977.
INTERVIEW: David Anthony Kraft is a real bear of an interview subject, befitting the future publisher of COMICS INTERVIEW. Kraft has many tales and opinions, but I wanted to focus on a small section where he discusses an underground comic he is putting together (I couldn't find any evidence this was published): "I'm putting together an underground comic, strictly outrageous, bizarre, and surreal stuff all written by me, and illustrated by [George] Perez, [P. Craig Russell, and others of similar superior ability. It won't be the usual so-called underground work by people like Wein and Chaykin, which looks and reads exactly like their commercial 'overground' work. Not at all. I'm not sure it won't leave a lot of regular regressive mentality comics fans bewildered, angry, or just uncomprehending. But sod it, I intend to publish some of the sick stuff I'm really into, straight and warped stuff that's real. Title is tentative, SPACE KRAFT, and I'm accepting advance orders from trusting, experimental, free-thinkers for $2, c/o Mad Genius Associates, 850 Seventh Avenue #806, XXX XXXX XX XXXXX. Adults only."
REVIEW: "Let the Gods Die" brings the intellectual analysis of Gene Phillips to TCJ for the first time, he would be a frequent contributor in early issues. iirc, he wrote on superheroes and mythology often, this essay looks at the evolving (and devolving) mythological perspective of THOR under Jack Kirby and Stan Lee and their successors. He was a natural Journal writer working both Tolkien and William Butler Yeats into a look at the classic THOR comic
Images from GCD
BUD PLANT WATCH: 9 out of 24 pages are taken up with a comprehensive catalog of Bud Plant's offerings in 1977. Buried in between a lot of items lost to time, the first two issues of the US HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE are listed for sale. The "New Zines" section further list the third and fourth issues. The cover to the first issue is by Jean-Michel Nicollet, the other three are by Moebius.
From TCJ Archive
ADVERTISEMENT: FANDOM FUNNIES #3 The Buyer's Guide parody issue. Contributors include David Mazzucchelli (Daredevil, Batman Year One, Rubber Blanket, Asterios Polyp) about five years before his first published mainstream work.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
My Comics Reading List #7
Another binge-read of 2000 A.D. where we learn Henry Flint is not Flint Henry, and the former is now one of my favorite Judge Dredd artists.
51. 2000 A.D. PROG #2296
No Pandora Perfect in this installment of "Regened", but I love the art of Luke Horsman on the lead Cadet Dredd story. We'll see him again on this list...
52. 2000 A.D. PROG #2297
Steve Yeowell returns to Sinister Dexter after runs on the series in 1998 and 2003. I loved the work of Tazio Bettin the past couple years, but it's so great when one of these UK legends turns up in the Progs...
53. 2000 A.D. PROG #2298
James Peaty and Paul Marshall are finishing up the Skip Tracer serial strong with this penultimate chapter.
54. 2000 A.D. PROG #2299
Jaegir continues throwing out well-drawn science fiction every week...
55. 2000 A.D. PROG #2300
Surprise appearance by Russell M. Olson of GATEWAY CITY and SKRAWL fame, with some wild zombie fun...
56. 2000 A.D. PROG #2301
57. 2000 A.D. PROG #2302
Okay, here's some incredible PJ Holden art from this brilliant Noam Chimpsky cycle featuring two particularly vicious mind-controlling beings...
58. 2000 A.D. PROG #2303
There's so much incredible Henry Flint art in this group of issues, here he collaborates with Rob Williams on an intense Judge Dredd serial...
59. 2000 A.D. PROG #2304
Let's not forget about that other Rob Williams series, HERSHEY, with amazing art by Simon Fraser. It takes place in Antarctica and has a nice twist on that classic science fiction story "Who Goes There?".
60. 2000 A.D. PROG #2305
More Henry Flint Dredd brilliance, love the structure of this page.
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