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...subversive romantic sympathizing with the dating travails of Deadman, a ghost that can briefly possess the living to the media satire of “The Red Bee Returns,” an attempt by a long-dormant hero to receive mainstream attention. No matter what your graphic novel baggage, the trip to Bizarro World is worth the ride...
This new political graphic novel written by Brian K. Vaughan, penciled by Tony Harris, inked by Tom Feister and released on DC’s Wildstorm label, is full of such strikingly original moments. The First Hundred Days collects the first five issues of the Ex Machina series...
Simply, there are not enough graphic novels that take place in the real world; while the strange dreamlands of The Sandman or the mutant-racism allegory of X-Men allow for beautiful artistic and narrative latitude, these books can refer to real-world issues only obliquely. Ex Machina, however, does it directly and with wry humor. Mitchell comments on the limits to his heroic powers: “People blame me for Bush in his flight suit and Arnold getting elected governor. But truth is…those things would have happened with or without...
However, what is perhaps most unsettling about Netaji is the juxtaposition of graphic violence with such peculiar jokes. It is unsettling to witness the readiness with which one dewy-eyed woman after another hands over food, coins or, in the most dramatic instance, an only son at the prompting of a few words from Bose and a crescendo of woodwinds (the bandshell must be behind the camp...
...this adaptation of a renowned graphic novel, Reeves is an L.A. detective whose job involves casting devils out of Angelenos. (He's the detexorcist!) He has to deal with both demons and angels, who in the normal state of affairs influence humans without directly interfering. But now, with the discovery of a long-lost artifact--the spear that killed Jesus on Calvary--the familiar rules don't apply, and an Armageddon- like battle...