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Art & Comics Eugene Fischer | 30 Dec 2009

Favorite Comics Covers

There’s currently a thread on io9 about the best comic book covers of the past decade. There’s a ton of beautiful work on that list, but one cover that was immediately notable to me by its absence was the cover to LOSERS #26, by Jock. Maybe it was the timeliness — it was [...]

Comics & Movies Eugene Fischer | 07 Mar 2009

Thoughts on the WATCHMEN Movie

Today I saw the Watchmen movie, with some trepidation.  I wasn’t afraid, as Ferrett Steinmetz is, that the film version would overwrite my own internal imagery developed from reading the graphic novel.  I understand his fear–his example, in the comments at the link, of the Harry Potter movie actors overwriting his own internal voices when [...]

Comics & SF/F Eugene Fischer | 03 Mar 2009

Two Exciting Forthcoming Books

Martin Millar blogs that he is under contract to deliver a sequel to his novel Lonely Werewolf Girl, provisionally entitled Queen Vex.  I just read Lonely Werewolf Girl last week and I thoroughly adored it, saying that it should be made into a television miniseries immediately.  I even spent some time after I finished it [...]