whose sentence is that?More's the pity that Holmes' reasoning based on his powers of external observation can't compete with the intrusive post-mortem forensic gore that passes for crime fiction these days.
if this was already posted i couldn't find it...j.p.
EW Rates Time Traveling Graphic Novels
From Dark Horse, Image, & NBM
March 15, 2006
In the "Comics 101" section of the current Entertainment Weekly (March 17), four EW scribes provide short reviews and letter grades for four recent graphic novel releases, all of which are set in the past. The top mark goes to Dark Horse's Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities ($13.95), which gets a "A" thanks primarily to writer Eric Powell (The Goon) who fashions a fascinating narrative in which a bunch of sideshow freaks hire Billy the Kid to take on Victor Frankenstein.
Image's Battle Hymn and NBM's Bluesman series (see "NBM Has Bluesman") both earn B+'s. B. Clay Moore's Battle Hymn ($14.99) is set during World War II and features a superpowered team of Nazi fighters, but with a wonderfully subversive twist, while the two Bluesman volumes ($8.95 each) brilliantly evoke the dangers facing an itinerant black musician in the Jim Crow south during the 1930s.
Eureka's Graphic Classics: Arthur Conan Doyle ($11.95) features the most famous protagonist (Sherlock Holmes), but reviewer Hannah Taylor gives the book only a "B-"--finding the master detective's deductions (as presented here) "quaint and a bit too elementary for today's CSI zeitgeist." More's the pity that Holmes' reasoning based on his powers of external observation can't compete with the intrusive post-mortem forensic gore that passes for crime fiction these days.
http://icv2.com/articles/home/8367.html
whose sentence is that?More's the pity that Holmes' reasoning based on his powers of external observation can't compete with the intrusive post-mortem forensic gore that passes for crime fiction these days.
Originally Posted by warrenellis
Boo, they left out Bully Pulpit.
the article says it was reviewed by Hannah Taylor. since i haven't read the article i can only assume it was ICv2 who summarized it and therefore, wrote that sentence.
if that's waht you're asking. i'm a bit confuse.
Yeah, double boo. That's a great book.
Anyone read Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities? I didn't pick it up in singles.
I am made out of water. You wouldn't know it, because I have it bound in. My friends are made out of water, too. All of them. The problem for us is that not only do we have to walk around without being absorbed by the ground but we also have to earn our livings.
-Philip K Dick
Confessions of a Crap Artist
Monkey vs. Lemur had time-travelling. Snub.
I've got to find this book.
I am made out of water. You wouldn't know it, because I have it bound in. My friends are made out of water, too. All of them. The problem for us is that not only do we have to walk around without being absorbed by the ground but we also have to earn our livings.
-Philip K Dick
Confessions of a Crap Artist
Triple boo! Do some homework EW!
carlgiannini: All I wanted to know is what trades have been released. Now I've committed to spend an extra hundred or two on comics. What happened here?
The Lord Retail: I happened. Lord Retail happened to you. I'm sorry friend, but I simply can't turn it off..
It's missing two commas.
You know, I liked Battle Hymn, but I don't think I would have put it on the list.
I am made out of water. You wouldn't know it, because I have it bound in. My friends are made out of water, too. All of them. The problem for us is that not only do we have to walk around without being absorbed by the ground but we also have to earn our livings.
-Philip K Dick
Confessions of a Crap Artist
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