Field Report: Toronto Comicon In Pictures
The Toronto Comicon is the smaller of the shows taking place in the T-Dot (the larger one is Fan Expo
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Author: Koom Kankesan
Alan Moore Book Club: Illuminations: “And At The Last, Just to Be Done With Silence”
The last story in Illuminations, “And at the Last, Just to Be Done With Silence”, is a mere ten pages
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’: “American Light: An Appreciation”
What are we to make of this pastiche that comes right after the story “What We Can Know About Thunderman”,
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ – Chapter 7
Daredevil #233. As soon as the character Nuke gets mentioned, someone will inevitably say “give me a red.” It seems
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ – Chapter 6
Daredevil #232. There are many fantastic individual elements in this issue including Karen’s struggle to kick her habit and her
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Alan Moore Book Club: Illuminations: What We Can Know About Thunderman
The longest story in Illuminations, at 241 pages, ‘What We Can Know About Thunderman’, is a savage satire of the
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’: Chapter 5
Daredevil #231. This issue wraps up the main arc of the Born Again trade paperback. There are still a couple
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ – Chapter 4
Daredevil #230. This issue’s cover is one of my favourites. It highlights Ben Urich’s struggle to stand up with dignity
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Christmas Book Club – ‘Daredevil: Born Again: Interregnum’
While discussing Daredevil: Born Again, it might be worth thinking about what might have been. Born Again isn’t the first
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Chapter 3
Daredevil #229. I read in an interview somewhere a long time ago that someone gave Frank Miller a copy of
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Chapter 2
Daredevil #228. David Mazzucchelli’s partner Richmond Lewis colours this issue though Mazzucchelli is credited in the original printing. I’m not
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Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Chapter 1
Frank Miller experienced a very successful and significant run as artist on Daredevil from issue 158 to 191. With Daredevil
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’: “Illuminations”
The sixth entry in the book, ‘Illuminations’, at eighteen pages long, is the short story which also bears the same
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’: “The Improbably Complex High-Energy State”
The fifth entry in the book, “The Improbably Complex High-Energy State”, at thirty-eight pages long, is a playful but ultimately
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – “Cold Reading”
The fourth entry in Illuminations by Alan Moore, “Cold Reading”, is eighteen pages long and was originally published in the
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – Location, Location, Location
The third entry in Moore’s collection of short stories Illuminations, “Location, Location, Location”, is thirty-six pages long and deals with
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Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – Not Even Legend
The reader surmises that the stories in this collection might not be presented in the order in which they were
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‘The Woman King’ Inspires A Discussion
The Woman King, Gina Prince-Blythewood‘s female-driven film about the Agojie, woman warriors who were part of the Dahomey kingdom (now
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Review: Noah Van Sciver’s ‘As a Cartoonist’
Noah Van Sciver’s new book from Fantagraphics, As a Cartoonist, is a miscellany of short pieces chronicling Van Sciver’s personal
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Toronto Comic Art Festival 2022 In Photos
The first in person TCAF (since the 2019 show) brought people out in strong numbers. Here are photos of what
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TCAF 2022: Photos From The Academic Symposium
The Tornoto Comics Arts Festival academic symposium featured talks by academics researching topics related to comics. Some of these concerns
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Toronto Comics Art Festival 2022: Word Balloon Academy
Friday, June 17th (before the Toronto Comics Art Festival kickoff panel in the Toronto Reference Library) saw a number of daytime
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Commentary: On Anticipating TCAF
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) is just a week away. This will be the first in-person festival TCAF has
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Film Review: ‘The Northman’
The Northman, Robert Eggers’ epic new period piece should make fans of his The Witch who subsequently hated his The
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Review: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’
Everything Everywhere All At Once, the new film by The Daniels (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) is easily the most
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Film Review: HBO’s ‘Scenes From A Marriage’
Scenes From A Marriage, Hagai Levi’s reimagining of Ingmar Bergman’s mini series of the same name, is easily the best
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Film Review: ‘Belfast’
Belfast, the film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, is told from the viewpoint of a nine year old working
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The Toronto Comicon: Day Two
Saturday, March 19th, 2022, at the Toronto Comicon felt like a full event. The weather was damp and drizzly and
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Review: The Toronto Comicon 2022
After almost three years of not attending a large comic convention, I went to the Toronto Comicon today and walked
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