Comment on Acid-Free Flashbacks: Strange Adventures #180 (Sept 1965) by In My...
That panel you posted where the oil well drills down and hits the ancient Native American spirit reminds me of the urban legend / hoax that in the late 1980s the Russians had drilled a bore hole in...
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hey Ben — thanks for reading! (I’m always hoping to get back to my comic posting here, but life keeps getting in the way) it’s an interesting question to ponder — the idea of some hoaxster at the...
View ArticleComment on The Diastolic and Systolic Spider-Man by plok
I think you’re right! Lord knows I wanted to hate this movie, since I finally reached my breaking-point with the corporate culture of Marvel and DC…I saw it on a plane…but bizarrely it turned out to be...
View ArticleComment on The Guerrilla in the Missed Connections: Connecting the Dotty...
Walnut’s Grove? Melissa Gilbert wasn’t in that pool, was she? Obvious joke, I know, but I couldn’t resist.
View ArticleComment on Life is but a Jingle, Part II (King Vidor’s THE CROWD) by Frosty...
Fascinating breakdown of a truly great film. Any chance of you writing a similar piece for Erich Von Stroheim’s “Greed”?
View ArticleComment on Life is but a Jingle, Part II (King Vidor’s THE CROWD) by Frosty...
Fascinating breakdown of a truly great film. Any chance you’ll write a similar piece for Erich Von Stroheim’s “Greed”?
View ArticleComment on Nepotism Done Right: An Impressionistic Study of the Laemmle Jr....
Author Greg W. Mank has recently finished a new book with includes a chapter on Julius (Jr.) Laemmle ………look for it hopefully by Jan 20014!
View ArticleComment on More Basterdy; or, “We Like Our Nazis in Uniforms” by Mindless...
[…] said, Inglourious Basterds didn’t bother me the way it bothered David Fiore! Still, I get where Dave’s coming from, because it’s a deeply strange movie — the […]
View ArticleComment on Thinkin’ Linkin’ and Blogs by Mindless Ones » Blog Archive »...
[…] why can’t I find catharsis in this process? Because as good old Dave Fiore noted in another Basterdly post, “if the movie works at all, it works in the reverse direction–as a statement about the […]
View ArticleComment on Stark Night of the Soul by Mindless Ones » Blog Archive » Enter...
[…] cosmologies when they attain the reader’s position. Or think about how works like Seaguy and New X-Men demonstrate the futility of superhero conventions while asking the reader to thrill […]
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