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		<title>COMICS: John Reviews &#8220;Seaguy&#8221; by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: If you don’t like overwhelmingly positive reviews filled with glowing praise, stop reading right now.  Additionally, if you don’t like incredibly wonderful stories that are emotionally moving and chock-a-block with symbolism, Seaguy is a comic to avoid.

 

Did you ever get the feeling that everything worth doing has already been done?  That there are no more adventures to be had in this factory-farmed, mass-produced, flat-cultured world? Well, that’s how the titular hero feels every day in Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart’s Seaguy...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=574&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COMICS: John reviews &#8220;Power Up&#8221; by Doug TenNapel</title>
		<link>http://witwar.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/comics-john-reviews-power-up-by-doug-tennapel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The premise of Earthworm Jim creator Doug TenNapel's latest graphic novel, Power Up, is not unlike the Fantasti-defeat-Dr. Doom-ray.  It's so obvious and clever that it's a wonder no one has tackled it before: Wouldn't it be great if real life worked like video games, where you could have cool abilities like stop-time and extra lives?  (EDIT: I guess you could say that the Scott Pilgrim series does this to an extent, but O'Malley tries to make the video game elements seem second-nature to the characters.)  TenNapel takes this premise and blends in elements from a few classic wish-fulfillment stories like It's A Wonderful Life and The Monkey's Paw, then brands it distinctly with his own unique blend of humor and heart to create a compelling cautionary tale warning of the dangers of obsession and of getting everything you always wanted. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=568&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COMICS: John&#8217;s Wednesday Winners LIGHTNING ROUND</title>
		<link>http://witwar.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/comics-johns-wednesday-winners-lightning-round/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yikes! has it been three weeks already?  Well, with three weeks of comics to discuss I'll have to trim down my reviews of each one.  I present to you now the Wednesday Winners Lightning Round, wherein I quickly talk about one thing I did or did not like about each comic (a format borrowed from the Warren Ellis forums) for those in-stores 5/28, 6/3 and 6/10 2009:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=553&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COMICS: John Reviews &#8220;I Kill Giants&#8221; by Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you've been reading the big comic news websites (as I have), you've probably heard tons of praise heaped upon a miniseries from Image Comics called I Kill Giants, written by Joe Kelly and illustrated by JM Ken Niimura.  After reading the collected trade paperback this weekend, I can honestly tell you that this book deserves every single word of praise it has been given and then some.  It is a truly spectacular work of sequential art fiction, one that transcends its genres (fantasy/drama/YA) and even its medium to stand on its own as an incredible story about youth, friendship, family, grief and - of course - giant-killing. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=559&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COMICS: petpluto reviews Zombies Calling</title>
		<link>http://witwar.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/comics-petpluto-reviews-zombies-calling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>petpluto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s count the awesomeness of Zombie Calling, shall we? First, Whedony references galore. Galore I tell you! From Zombies communicating by saying &#8220;Grr&#8221;-&#8221;Arg&#8221; to the lead (female) character name being &#8216;Joss&#8217;, the comic is full of win. But going beyond that, it is full of feminist win too. That&#8217;s right, a book about zombies has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=555&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Buffy The Vampire Slayer remake without Joss Whedon?</title>
		<link>http://witwar.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/a-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-remake-without-joss-whedon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, The Hollywood Reporter announced that the producers of the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie are seeking to produce a remake without the involvement of scriptwriter (and writer/director/producer of the critically-acclaimed BtVS television series) Joss Whedon.  Vertigo Entertainment and Mr. &#38; Mrs. Kuzui would be working directly from the source material that they hold the rights to, which excludes characters and concepts introduced in the television series such as Giles, Angel, Xander, Willow, Spike and Dawn (all owned by either Whedon himself or 20th Century Fox.)  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=549&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MUSIC: John Reviews &#8220;Separation Sunday&#8221; by The Hold Steady</title>
		<link>http://witwar.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/music-john-reviews-separation-sunday-by-the-hold-steady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hold Steady is, in the words of Red Dwarf&#8217;s Arnold Rimmer, &#8220;like a three-fried-egg chili chutney sandwich.&#8221; It is a combination of elements that, when taken on their own, usually raise my ire (concept album, vocals spoken rather than sung, a &#8220;post-punk&#8221; attitude.)  Yet when combined in this particular arrangement, Craig Finn &#38; Co. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=544&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COMICS: John&#8217;s Wednesday Winners for 5/20/09</title>
		<link>http://witwar.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/comics-johns-wednesday-winners-for-52009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week boasts an interestingly mixed bag: New titles, old standbys, good licensed books, bad licensed books, and a flashback to one of the first comics I ever read.  Let's begin!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=540&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COMICS: John&#8217;s Wednesday Winners for 5/13/09</title>
		<link>http://witwar.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/comics-johns-wednesday-winners-for-51309/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 22:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week boasts a slam dunk from legendary comics duo Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, the final issues of Super Human Resources and The Umbrella Academy, and a touch of class from Jane Austen by way of Nancy Butler and Hugo Petrus.  Let's begin!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=536&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MUSIC: John reviews &#8220;21st Century Breakdown&#8221; by Green Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been a while since I've donned my music critic hat, but thanks to several months of searching Rhapsody for new and exciting music, I have a few records I'd like to examine.  I'll begin with the most recent (so recent it isn't even available in stores until Tuesday,) 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day.

Depending on whether you consider the Millenium to have occurred in 2000 or 2001, this is either Green Day's second or third album of the century (Warning was released in 2000 and American Idiot in 2004) and covers much of the same thematic material as American Idiot - dealing with the escalating paranoia, media overload and religion-fueled reactionary mania of a post-9/11 America and world.  It's a "concept album" in the same sense that American Idiot is a "rock opera,"  as both stretch the definition of their respective terms to the limit.  It consists of three acts, or "sides" as the band refers to them, each featuring the two recurring main characters of Christian and Gloria (the young lovers depicted on the album's cover.)  The final product is ... <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=witwar.wordpress.com&blog=4612343&post=527&subd=witwar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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