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Nex

Nex posted Desperately Seeking .CBR Reader | Dec 8, 2009

Convenience, thy name is dot-cee-bee-arr! In case you're in the dark, allow me to explain. A .cbr file is a zipped collection of images most often used to distribute comic books via the 'net. It's a pretty simple and elegant solution -- assuming you can find a reader program that makes you happy....

Only a Blockhead

Only a Blockhead posted Red Snow | Nov 29, 2009

My review of Red Snow by Susumu Katsumata begins: Comic books and graphic novels are treated, nowadays, with a level of respect that would have been unthinkable when they were purchased more often in drugstores than in bookstores. Indeed, it is no longer controversial to say that such works can be...

Scott (The Mad Thinker)

Scott (The Mad Thinker) posted Seafire: Not Attacking But Genuinely Perplexed That You Love Rape. | Oct 2, 2009

This ticked me off, so I’m going to write about it; even though, I know I shouldn’t. It’ll just cause grief. OK, in a Spider-Man comic, a guy called the Chameleon disguised himself as Peter Parker and had sexual encounter with Peter’s female roommate that may or may not have been actual sex....

Scott (The Mad Thinker)

Scott (The Mad Thinker) posted WiR, Meet MTIR (Men Turned Into Rugs) | Oct 1, 2009

OK, once more I want to look at the WiR article by Marron. But this is the last time, I assure you. This time I want to look at the theory that Marron espouses (and many people believe) that female deaths and other horrors for female characters tend to be more gruesome or less dignified than their...