Tucker Stone ruminates on the wonder that is G.I. Joe: “This is pretty solid comics–it’s aggressive, it’s far more cynical and hard boiled than I’d imagine a comic based off a toy empire to be, and as long as I’m not having to listen to him screech, Cobra Commander is a great heavy.” If that’s not enough Tucker Stone for you today, there’s also the second episode of this.
Also over at Comixology, Valerie D’Ozario debuts her new column, Comics-Op, which promises to talk about comic-book related news from a “semi-insider” perspective. Staying on the Comixology vibe, Kristy Valenti scrutinizes two anthologies about, ahem, doin’ it.
After staying silent for awhile, the Savage Critics site roars back to life, as Jog looks at the Eurocomic classic Perramus, while Graeme McMillan plays catch up on a few ongoing titles. Sean T. Collins reviews the latest issue of Tales Designed to Thrizzle: “I think what Kupperman’s doing–with his long, digressive “stories,” with his riffs on old-fashioned comic-book covers, and so on–is using the stuff of comics itself as a locus of the comedy.”
Matthew Brady examines LoEG: Century: 1910 and declares: “The unfortunate thing here is that this is only the first part of a sweeping, epic volume, and so it ends leaving the reader feeling unfulfilled, with the promise that further installments will eventually provide answers.”
Writing for BookForum, Douglas Wolk considers the jam comic Pixu: “For all the book’s clichés, it gets a tremendous charge from its artists’ flirtation with chaos.” Cory Doctrow calls No Girls Allowed, an interesting-sounding anthology about famous women who dressed as men to get ahead in society, a “great and inspiring read.”
Domingos Isabelinho would like you to know that Chris Ware does not produce mass art. Got that? Did Juxtapoz magazine inspire a lowbrow art revolution? Greg Beato thinks so. Having dismissed Kim Deitch’s work in the past, Noah Berlatsky attempts to re-evaluate his opinion by perusing Alias the Cat. Also, Noah and Tucker Stone (there he is again) take a look at the history of Man-Thing. Yes, Man-Thing. Paul Gravett looks at Yuichi Yokoyama’s Travel. Shawn Hoke reviews Shawn Cheng’s minicomic, The Would-Be Bridegrooms.