An essay I wrote for my "Metaphysical Messages" class. The original had footnotes, which I don't feel like figuring out how to format in lj, so they're rendered here in brackets and small text (to differentiate them from the copious amounts of parentheticals I seem to use these days). This was written for a comics skeptic, so apologies for anything ( Read more... )

Today I am writing an essay about Alan Moore for class. I am actually having Stendahl paroxyms looking at Watchmen. It's like a combination between a panic attack and an orgasm. It feels really bizarre.

I've always been really affected by the book, but I'm having a really hard time writing about it. Reason being that there is so much to notice, ( Read more... )

So, a lot of people on my flist have brought up the film version of V For Vendetta lately (I think it's lately released to DVD), and I thought I'd take a few minutes to jot down my feelings on this movie. This is not to trash on anyone else's opinion, but to throw my own thoughts out there (it seemed inappropriate to take up someone's comments ( Read more... )

Dude, Laura Palmer was on House tonight! Sheryl Lee, last seen wrapped in plastic, got to play one of those ubiquitous frowning concerned loved ones necessary to any hospital drama. It was kind of weird to hear her voice pitched like a mom, and not like a cutesie little David-Lynch dirty innocent. But I'm glad girlfriend's got work.

In other news, I ( Read more... )

So I was going to be a good little consumer and shell out the full $75 to purchase Lost Girls from the local comic store. After calling around town, it quickly became apparent that every comic store and book store in the Portland area is sold out already. The damn thing came out this week and it's already sold out (apparently it's well into its 2nd ( Read more... )

What, so you say I will soon have a comic book in my hot little hands that is 1) about Barrie's Wendy, Carroll's Alice, and Baum's Dorothy, 2) high class literary/artistic pornography, 3) illustrated by Melinda fucking Gebbie, and 4) written by Alan fucking Moore?

Literary, intelligent pornography? That is smart and hot and (from what I've heard) ( Read more... )