The 2024 In Reviews and News— Comic Bookmarks December 29th, 2024 A review of the writing at FC2C in 2024
Reader’s Polls, Angouleme’s American invasion, Content Mills Strike Back, and More— Comic Bookmarks December 22, 2024 From the Archives The holidays caught up with us and nothing got finished this week so hereare two pieces by Mike and myself from our days at Panel Patter. A Compassionate Time of Mourning in Jiro Taniguchi’s A Journal of My FatherComic Reviews and commentaryPanel PatterScott CederlundWhy Do Humans
Off To Blue Skies, Amos on Gaiman, Best Of 2024 Lists, and more — The Comics Bookmarks December 15th, 2024 So it’s been a month or so since we did one of these. It felt like we were rolling along pretty good there since we started doing these link posts in the early summer but then we hit November and let’s just say, things happened in November. But
The Breaking of a Good Man— a look at Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov’s The Punisher: Valley Forge, Valley Forge Maybe it’s not the right time to be writing about a lone gunman prowling the streets of NYC. Or maybe it is as Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov are less focused on the exploits of Frank Castle the man and more dialed into the symbol that is The Punisher.
A Life Formed by Manga: a look at Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Day Tokyo These Days isn’t a travelogue or a how to but it wants to let the reader know about the spirit of Tokyo and manga, how they’re intertwined, and how they weigh down on the artists and editors who create them.
How Do We Respond to Trump? “God of Horror” Passes Away and a lot of reviews— The Comic Bookmarks November 10th, 2024 O.k. So I missed last week. In my defense, it was a busy weekend (two concerts and a wedding to attend) and then this past Tuesday just knocked the wind out of everything else that was happening. The Nice House On The Sea #4 by Tynion IV, Bueno, and
The Fight for Justice in Absolute Superman #1 What does Truth, Justice, and the American Way mean after November 5, 2024?