Showing posts with label howard the duck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label howard the duck. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

MYTHCOMICS: "SWAN SONG OF THE LIVING DEAD DUCK" (HOWARD THE DUCK #10, 1977)

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Prior to this essay, the only HOWARD THE DUCK issue I pegged as a mythcomic was issue #11, for the story "Quack-Up."  In fact, I n...
Monday, February 17, 2020

"SNAP BACK" VS. "LOST CHANCE"

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I posted this today on CHFB: ________________ I recently came across a link to a Gail Simone twitter-thread that addresse...
Monday, September 16, 2019

MYTHCOMICS: NEVADA 1-6 (1998)

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In general I didn't like a lot of Steve Gerber's post-Bronze Age work. The antic creativity present in such 1970s features as THE DE...
Friday, January 29, 2016

MYTHCOMICS: "QUACK-UP!" (HOWARD THE DUCK #11, 1976)

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Since in this post   I devoted some space to asserting how poorly Bill Mantlo did with a particular HOWARD THE DUCK story, it seems only fai...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

NULL-MYTHS: "A CHRISTMAS FOR CAROL" (HOWARD THE DUCK #3, 1979)

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Since the theme of this week's reviews was "Christmas stories in comics," this presented me with a dilemma. The medium plays h...
Monday, May 5, 2014

DANCING ON THE DWARF PT. 2

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On 4-21-14 I wrote GENDERIZATION GAP PT. 2 , in which I took a somewhat cynical view of Janelle Asselin's critique of the cover of DC Co...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

THE ONLY DEFINITION OF ART YOU'LL EVER NEED, PT. 1

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Every good idea and all creative work are the offspring of the imagination, and have their source in what one is pleased to call...