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Jan. 25th, 2009
Writer's Block: Robotic
Jan. 25th, 2009 02:53 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Hrm. An interesting question. Who would be my favorite. Probably Bender. Everyone loves Bender. Still I have a great deal of fondness for both the pre- and post-Nextwave versions of Aaron Stack. Oh and K-9. Excellent sidekick there. But no, we'll stick with Bender...
ETA: But what about Red Robot? No, no. Still Bender...
Hrm. An interesting question. Who would be my favorite. Probably Bender. Everyone loves Bender. Still I have a great deal of fondness for both the pre- and post-Nextwave versions of Aaron Stack. Oh and K-9. Excellent sidekick there. But no, we'll stick with Bender...
ETA: But what about Red Robot? No, no. Still Bender...
Sunday Trade: Nat Turner
Jan. 25th, 2009 04:48 pm
Nat Turner by Kyle Baker
On August 21st, 1831 Nat Turner led a slave revolution in Southhampton County, Virginia. He and his followers executed fifty-five people, many of them children before being stopped. Turner himself was capture, tried and executed. He was hung, beheaded and skinned...
I've been meaning to review this book for months now, but keep putting it off. I'm not the right person to judge Turner or his actions. I can just say that the book makes me uncomfortable. Which is good. Kyle Baker tells a mostly dialogue less story that challenges the reader. It doesn't try to hide anything. And while its far from being a "fun" book it is an important one. Like Spiegleman's Maus, Nat Turner pushes the field of comics...