A little slow on the blogging here this week because I have been working on the popmatters comics July/August schedule. I feel lucky to get to work with so many writers with good ideas. I am doing the editors blog every day next week, so check back for my thoughts on Swamp Thing's sexual crimes against nature, Walking Dead's aversion to cities and social change, and thoughts on 'failed cities' in comics in general. Also editing on some articles and reviews, but in the mean time...
Benjamin Marra referenced this film the other day for the aesthetic of its executioners in the opening scene. It's great how Mario Bava has the mask come at the audience, and then we are all cursed by the power of Satan by looking at the camera... and the hammer. Barrel-chests were evidently a job requirement for executing before electricity.
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The other night I told this kid he looked like that actor from Smallville, and he didn't know what I was talking about until his girlfriend told him, "Superman." Then he said, "oh, I get that a lot, because I work at a comics store but I don't read Superman." We were talking about comics, and he said he really liked this book IDW put out, 'Sword of My Mouth'. So, I picked it up, and now I keep thinking about it. Basically, it is a story about Detroit after the rapture occurs. The art is simple and the ink is heavy on strange focuses, like the ribbon in that old woman's hair, and the lettering is supposed to be like it was from an actual letter to someone who heard the trumpet and ascended. So, at first, I was completely offput, but the story works so well with the art and both are so weird... not much out there like this right now. So good that I am going to check out the first book this Munroe guy did. He used to be the editor of Adbusters? What a weirdy.
"These days, now that magic works, you just don't want to fuck with old ladies."
Excited to see where this series goes.
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Here is an article I co-wrote a while ago that just came out on Dutch Anarchism in the 1960's: Provo: Dutch Anarchism in the 1960's
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