Previously in Confessions of a Comics Reader, I revealed that I followed last summer’s triumphant escape from a lifelong comic book habit with a recent relapse, purchasing single issues for the first time in over a year. These single issues … Continue reading Confessions of a Comics Reader: The Fate of the Four-Colors!
For your information this is the first thing that shows up when you enter “Clowes” and “drunk” into Google image search: I’m just sayin’. Continue reading Let’s keep it friendly
Last summer I regaled the online community with my sad tale of a childhood habit transformed into a lifelong obsession. Entitled Confessions of a Comics Reader, I detailed the multitude of times since my youthful consumption of paneled wonders in … Continue reading Confessions of a Comics Reader: The Relapse!
Okay, since already tipped my pitches, I will relent and take time tomorrow to explain this– –in the context of last summer’s gripping five-part series. Tomorrow: The Stunning Return of Confessions of a Comics Reader. Continue reading You’ll remember me tomorrow, but you won’t give a damn by Wednesday Week
The caped crusader knows that a walk is as good as a hit. Way to build up your OBP, Batman. Good eye! Good eye! You can see the whole gripping game where I snipped these digital panels from. (Posted simultaneously … Continue reading You keep samin’ when you oughta be changin’
After a long week, my brain is a little mushy. I’ll need to get to number thirty-eight tomorrow. Continue reading And the piano, it sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer
I think you’re supposed to find the word “HULK.” I wish this existed on the Interweb because of me, but I am grateful that it exists on the Interweb because of someone else. (Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”) Continue reading Can’t get no rest, don’t know how I work all day
I sure wish Dan Clowes would get hired as the regular writer-artist for Batman comics. I’m glad I was reminded of the above image earlier today. (Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”) Continue reading Play me a sad song ’cause that’s what I wanna hear, I want you to make me cry
“My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.” –Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table, 1997 “AFTER MINUTES THAT ARE ETERNITIES, SHE REACHES HER DESTINATION, BLINKS AT A LIGHT THAT STINGS HER EYES, AND WHEN HER VISION CLEARS, GASPS…COLORS AND BRIGHTNESS AND SOUNDS AND A SUBTLE PERFUME SUCH AS SHE HAS NEVER IMAGINED…HER HEART POUNDS AND SHE GROWS DIZZY WITH … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
I kinda wish Batman comics always looked like this. Unfortunately, they only do when you visit a really cool Website. (Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”) Continue reading Headlights flashin’ in the rain again, my thumb is giving me pain again, zip zip
Coffee for Two 