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Here's that video I mentionedFucking spaghetti western kung fu sci fi genius. And this song makes me want to make sex a lot. Also to thrash around during the solo and beat shit up. Not all at once,...
View ArticleJoe Rice Media Review 9/7/06
GOTTA WRITE THIS FAST WHILE LISA SHOWERS!!!!!The Punisher was good. Finally getting used to Fernandez' art style. I'm still a . . .little . . .uncomfortable with some of the portrayals. Something a bit...
View ArticleHoles
Cheap trades and the internet have shot the traditional comic shop back issue market in the spine.It’s so easy to get that elusive issue of Iron Man through an internet auction and in a world where you...
View ArticleWelcome to the House of Fun
For all the four-colour joy that comics can bring, they really seem to mess with the heads of their creators. Sometimes this is a good thing. Most of the time it isn’t.The history of the medium is...
View ArticleComics For Nobody!
Comic book enthusiasts have many obsessions, but one of the most prevailing is to get more people involved in their hobby. To turn non-comic book readers into true connoisseurs of the artform, to...
View ArticleIn Your Head
Advertisements in comics have always aimed young. Genre movies, videogames and junk food have been staples, but in recent years, another category of advertisement has become more and more ubiquitous:...
View ArticleWe Don't Talk About Love
While the struggle to create well-crafted and entertaining comic books has been an ongoing process for much of the medium’s history, bitching and moaning about them has, in recent years, been raised...
View ArticleJoe Rice Media Review 9/21/06
I didn't write one of these last week. Do you know why? It is because I did not buy any comic books last week. I was too tired. This week I was mad but not too tired. Now I am not mad. I am...
View ArticleLawmaster
Judge Dredd has been a constant figure in nearly every issue of British science-fiction comic 2000ad over its 30-year history. For a character who pretty much started out as Dirty Harry in the future...
View ArticleJoe Rice Media Review 9/28/06
First off, I just started Satsuma Gishiden, but it's so far frickin' awesome. It's a dirty, grimy, gory samurai manga. It opens with a convict being torn to pieces by samurai as part of a game to take...
View ArticleSort It Out
There is a bit in both the film and book versions of High Fidelity where the main character, deep in the pit of despair, puts it all out of his mind by sitting down and organising his records into the...
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Brians Galore!
Rocketship had another great party Friday. Brians Wood and K. Vaughn came by, lots of folks came by, lots of boozes were imbibed, and lots of comics were appreciated. Enjoy the photos!Even the military...
View ArticleJoe Rice Media Review 10/18/06
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Didn't have time to write one of these in a while. I am very sorry. DO NOT HATE ME THOUGH! Because I write again now! I didn't get a whole lot of comics today, but by damn were most...
View ArticleJoe Rice Media Review 10/26/06
Comics comics comics comics! They are great when they are great. Sometimes they are. Other times they are not. It is a secret mystery how to tell! I will let you know the mystery sometime but not now!...
View ArticleReadings of Seven Soldiers #1
I'm gonna use this post as an editable, updatable compilation of links to various readings of Grant Morrison's latest major work. I may even have a thought or two of my own eventually.An interesting...
View ArticleJoe Rice Media Review 11/9/06
Couple weeks' worth of comics, and some damn fine stuff in there. Gotta meet the old lady in a bit and I feel like I'm coming down with something. So forgive me if I'm brief. Or if I ramble. We'll see...
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Cookies, Ice Cream, Girls and Comics
Who says kids, women, and any combination thereof don't read comics? I'll tell you who: liars and fools. Don't be either one! Check out the latest Rocketship Party with Raina Telgemeier and Abby...
View ArticleJoe Rice Media Review 11/15/06
Hey. Weird to be back. I bought some comic books. Most of them were good. In the next paragraphs I will attempt to describe why they were or were not good. I will also attempt to do so better than the...
View ArticleJoe Rice Media Review 11/29/06
I bet you wish you had a job that you could start and then the very next time you're supposed to do it, you don't. It was Thanksgiving, man. My wife and her sister were running around the kitchen for,...
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Big Fat Rocketship Party
So the Big Fat Little Lit party was at Rocketship last night. It was a really good time. The guests were all pleasant, talkative, and, of course, fun. And the book itself I recommend quite highly to...
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