Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware

Aside from the beautiful computer-generated color palate,  Jimmy Corrigan is dull and morose.  It seems as though the book is only a showcase for Chris Ware’s distinctive style.  The style is highly engaging, the storyline decidedly not. I guess Ware suffers from a dearth of literary imagination. One of the better parts of the book is [...]

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The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller et al.

With the release of the two recent Batman movies I have developed an interest in the graphic novels by Frank Miller.  The same graphic novels that have supposedly informed Christopher Nolan and his dark take on the Batman.  First I would like to say that The Dark Knight Returns kicks ass. Ahem. What I mean is [...]

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