MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

Besides my ongoing reading/blogging on Tezuka’s Phoenix, I’ve also been making my way through two other “classic” manga series: Koike and Kojima’s Lone Wolf and Cub and Otomo’s Akira. These three works are very different creatures on many levels, but primarily for me in my changing and opposite reactions to re/reading them.

I wonder what it says about my taste or possibly comics publishing that in the last 2 weeks or so my regular monthly order of comics (from the fine folks at Mile High Comics) was almost exclusively reprints of old comic strips. (Edit: I started this post in October and just found it again.) One [...]

Webcomic examples talking about long serializations and how they work.

Sometimes I read someone else’s post about a topic I’m interested in, and I see a different post that could have been. I’m not always sure my criticism of the post is a product of the content or my reading of it (I’ll often get stuck on one thing and not see past it). But [...]