Category Archives: cartoons

superhero comics and the nature of myth

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 14 by Anton

Crisis on Infantile Earths – or – If it’s Tuesday, it must be Ragnarok! — a long and rambling essay by John Holbo

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If you are facing multiple hostiles, press 4.

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 07 by Anton

a cartoon against “smart” guns (Bitter Bitch cites Clayton Cramer)

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Peter Parker picked a peck of plutonic protons

Posted on Friday, 2004 July 09 by Anton

I hadn’t been out to the pictures in a while, so today I went to see Spider-Man 2. I don’t remember the first one as quite so soggy with angst; and the scientists’ lines are occasionally painful. (Hint to any … Continue reading →

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serial or parallel?

Posted on Friday, 2004 May 07 by Anton

Shiny! (before Firefly)

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and now for some thrillin’ heroics

Posted on Friday, 2004 March 19 by Anton

PvP’s Brent and Jade discover Firefly (sequence of four strips). Speaking of webtoons, here’s libertarian (or is it paleocon?) propaganda from Dogpatch: Nip and Tuck

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shoulda been there, B

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 March 17 by Anton

Some months ago I started reading Pillars of Faith, a webtoon, without being aware that it’s a fan spinoff of – you guessed it – Buffy! It brings up some interesting questions that Buffy did not address.