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Review: Blutch’s Peplum
Publisher’s Synopsis “…. a grand, strange dream of ancient Rome. At the edge of the empire, a gang of bandits discovers the body of a beautiful woman in a cave; she is encased in ice but may still be...
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Jacen Burrows and the Mystery of Providence
Alan Moore’s Providence has been well served by the online community of researchers and critics over the past year. Of greatest note, perhaps, are the detailed annotations at the Facts-Providence blog....
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Superman Rehashed
On Superman: American Alien #1-6 (of 7) by Max Landis (writer), Nick Dragotta, Tommy Lee Edwards, Joelle Jones, Jae Lee, Francis Manapul, and Jonathan Case “American Alien is the Best Superman Story...
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Civil War, Civil Crap
So the critics like it, they really really like it. Poor old Batman v Superman (RT Score 28%) is sitting in the corner sucking his thumb as Captain America does his victory jig and Iron Man shakes his...
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Frank Miller Triumphant
Frank Miller (c. 2016) is the Donald Trump of comics. Not merely because he’s demonstrated some ebullient racism, not because he really hates Muslims, not because of his warped ideas about women, but...
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The Good and Faithful Chester Brown (and the Parable of the Talents)
If you’re wondering why you’re reading a bible study during this blog’s weekly schedule, you can blame Chester Brown for creating a commentary-entertainment on the role of prostitution in the Hebrew...
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The Glorious Maple Vanilla of We Stand On Guard
A review of We Stand On Guard by Brian K. Vaughan and Steve Skroce O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. Apparently, We Stand...
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Alias vs. Jessica Jones
The verdict is in—Jessica Jones is awesome. I’m sure you’ve read it all in various reviews littering the web. There’s the superb depiction of rape trauma and PTSD, the excellent depression, the...
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Don’t hide your candle under a bushel, Mr. Frazetta. (NSFW)
“The internet is a toilet.” …..Plumb away! Background: There’s a hugely anticipated Frazetta auction due in early December 2015. Some nudie art could not be included in the printed catalog (and...
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The Tragedy of Adrian Tomine
The tragedy of Killing and Dying isn’t that the collection is focused on hopeless men and their supportive spouses. Rather, it resides in the fact that Adrian Tomine hasn’t produced a comic of any real...
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The Fade Out: Hollywood Meh
A Review of The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser. _____________ Synopsis: 1948 Hollywood. Charlie Parish wakes up from a drunken stupor to find a dead starlet in the...
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Sam Zabel or How the pen became mightier than the penis
Sam Zabel is suffering from a terminal case of writer’s block. He also thinks, not without reason, that he is a talentless hack churning out inferior versions of late Golden Age superhero comics to...
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Best Online Comics Criticism 2014
2014 was a pretty bad year for comics criticism. On the basis of my simple survey there was hardly anything of note from the first third of 2014 as far as comics criticism was concerned (though things...
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Snowpiercer and the Last Messiah
(Spoiler alert: The endings of both the comic and movie are spoiled utterly and completely) Films are quite often acts of misreading and miscommunication. The presence of fleshy humans and...
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The Dishonourable Woman
Let me attempt to describe the experience of watching the BBC’s widely acclaimed 8 part mini-series, The Honourable Woman. Imagine walking into a five star restaurant and being ushered to your seat...
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How to Read Hilda
(with apologies to Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart) Luke Pearson’s Hilda series seems to have fallen into that strange fault line lying between comics elitism and wide commercial acceptance. The...
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Captain America: Half-Truths
I was looking forward to reading Truth: Red, White, and Black following the smattering of positive notices the comic has received on HU of late. Noah’s recent article certainly gave me the impression...
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How to Cry: On Ice Castles
Systematic readers of HU will note that Noah has been running periodic weekend surveys in the interest of fostering chatter and garnering recommendations for further reading and viewing. In general,...
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Brief Notes on The Encylopedia of Early Earth
“Without myth, however, all cultures lose their healthy, creative, natural energy; only a horizon surrounded by myths encloses and unifies a cultural movement.” The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich...
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Chinese Choices
Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié’s A Chinese Life is the kind of book I would normally resist reading; the chief reason being it’s overly familiar subject matter. For a period during the 80-90s, it seemed...
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