Maurice Broaddus said...
thanks mark! (though please don't give "socialist" any more blog site ideas.)

"socialist", in the aforementioned book, ronin as well as the martha washington series, frank miller attacks the over-corporatization of society. maybe those would be more to your liking (though ronin is filled with more of that ugly art you hate ( Read more... )

The article below is repasted in its entirety and so far without permission (without malice and without commercial use either!) from Reviews by Maurice Broaddus, at http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/comments/maurice/2006/01/dark-knight-returns.html

Saturday, January 07, 2006

The Dark Knight Returns

Time and time again I am asked about comic books ( Read more... )

The Weather gods have spoken. Lady Gaia herself has marshalled them and they have all gathered together in the form of a hurricane to scourge the USA for the iniquities it has committed towards Iraq and other countries. In a piece of poetic justice (ah, but 'twould have been even better had Katrina taken out Texas, or some South-MidWestern Bible ( Read more... )

Well, it had to happen, didn't it. I was selling a few shares, as it happened, from my "ISA", on the day... wish I'd done it the day before!! (Though the guy at Royal Bank of Scotland said he didn't think I'd lost too much... the market was nicely up before that day ( Read more... )

REVIEW OF BATMAN BEGINS, DIR. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

By Elizabeth Kaspar

Or, "British Documentary-Maker's Take on Batman Mythos", or "Come back, Tim Burton, All is Forgiven".... etc.

"C'est un peu magnifique - mais ce ne'st pas un film de B.D....." Apres le general Bosquet.

(Translation: "It's a little bit magnificent - but it's not a comic book movie ( Read more... )

With regard to what my livejournal friend John, aka : commonplacebook , has to say about Gaiman: I shall HAVE to try the "Sandman" series, I haven't really yet, just a couple of comics. I shall have to list my few experiences with Gaiman's work ( Read more... )