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'Lone Justice: Crash!' wraps up today in a double-sized finale
16 hours ago
It may be a skip week for the rest of the comics industry, but not here at ComicMix, where we bring you the conclusion of a story over a year in the telling!
Read the giant-sized finale of Lone Justice: Crash! by Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley right now!
Or if you're just joining us, start at the beginning!
And if you want to read it in paper, the first issue of Lone Justice will be coming out from Idw in February, followed by a trade paperback of the Harvey-nominated Ez Street in March! »
- Glenn Hauman
Darth Vader opens the New York Stock Exchange
20 hours ago
Missed this one last Tuesday: while everybody else in the world was being good while awaiting the arrival of jolly old St. Nick, the folks on Wall Street were taking a different tack...
Lord Vader had no comment on rumors that he was stepping down as CEO of Microsoft to take on a new position at Goldman Sachs, possibly due to impending litigation from News Corporation which claims he is an employee of their subsidiary 20th Century Fox and is still contractually obligated to them. »
- Glenn Hauman
Review: 'Logicomix' by Doxiadis, Papadimitriou, Papadatos, and Di Donna
29 December 2009 7:32 AM, PST
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou; Art by Alecos Papadatos; Color by Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury, September 2009, $22.95
Ever so often, there’s an object lesson that proves the saying so many of us like to make: that comics aren’t just for adventure stories, that they’re suitable for any kind of story. If we’re lucky, those paradigm-breakers are also really successful – and Logicomix is both of those things. It’s a major graphic novel on an unexpected topic – the life of Bertrand Russell, with a strong emphasis on his work attempting to create a solid foundation for mathematics, and thus all of learning – and it’s been quite commercially successful, alighting on bestseller lists occasionally and moving a surprising number of copies.
Logicomix, though, is also a piece of metafiction – the first character we see, on the first page of this graphic novel, »
- Andrew Wheeler
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