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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (4 December 2023)
A Lucky Luke reminder that comics can be awesome: Lucky Luke’s Double
Spotlight on Lucky Luke, 1949-1958 – part 2
Last week, I mentioned that humor played a key role in Lucky Luke from the very beginning. Today, I want to take a closer look at the types of humor developed in the series’ earliest years… The Bluefeet are Coming! … Continue reading
Posted in WILD WEST
Tagged Lucky Luke, Morris, movies, politics, René Goscinny, western
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Spotlight on Lucky Luke, 1949-1958 – part 1
Last year, when I did a couple of posts about The Adventures of Tintin, I naively mentioned I wanted to write more, throughout 2022, about the Belgian bandes dessinées I read growing up. My work schedule didn’t allow me to … Continue reading
Catching up with crime comics – Texas edition
As I’ve been catching up with crime comics from the past year or so, one thing that struck me is the fact that Texas is currently one of the main recurring settings in the genre. This may be … Continue reading
Gotham Calling’s top 50 westerns
This is Gotham Calling’s 500th post! I like to mark these round numbers with humorous tours of Batman’s quirkiest villains but, since I’ve already done one of those earlier this year, this time around I’ll go for something more original … Continue reading
Posted in WILD WEST
Tagged Cold War, David Lapham, horror, movies, politics, Quentin Tarantino, western
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2020’s books of the year: honorable mentions – part 1
Doing a list often involves leaving out a lot of good stuff and this was certainly the case with Gotham Calling’s 2020 books of the year… Some great comics didn’t make it to the list because they didn’t fulfil the … Continue reading
Posted in BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Tagged Abraham STone, Aco, American Ronin, Axel Alonso, BANG!, Batman's personality, Big Girls, Brian Michael Bendis, Dave Stewart, David Lorenzo, Dean White, espionage, Jason Howard, Joe Kubert, Matt Kindt, Nick Derington, Peter Milligan, politics, science fiction, Warren Ellis, western, Wilfredo Torres
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (18 May 2020)
Your violent reminder that comics can be awesome…
More sci-fi war comics
Another December, another Star Wars movie, another Gotham Calling post spotlighting sci-fi war comics… To be honest, as far as the main Star Wars series is concerned, The Last Jedi may be the one that finally lost me. … Continue reading
Posted in FANTASTIC ADVENTURES
Tagged 2000 AD, Alan Moore, Drew Moss, East of West, Frank Martin, Gianluca Pagliarani, Halo Jones, Ian Gibson, Ignition City, Jay Faerber, Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta, politics, Rus Wooton, science fiction, Scott Godlewski, space opera, Star Wars, Warren Ellis, western
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