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Tag Archives: Cold War
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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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (8 November 2021)
This weekend, I too went to see Dune: Part One, Denis Villeneuve’s majestic – if largely monochromatic and, despite the heat, coldly assembled – adaptation of the first half of the first book of Frank Herbert’s heady space opera. Given … Continue reading
Posted in FANTASTIC ADVENTURES
Tagged Boy Commandos, Cold War, Dune, horror, Jack Kirby, Louis Cazeneuve, movies, politics, science fiction
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Top 12 foreign-language film noirs
When I ranked my top 50 noir thrillers last month, I only included movies spoken in English. It was an easy way to curb the size of the list. However, this type of gritty, atmospheric crime stories has found an … Continue reading
Gotham Calling’s top 50 film noir
Today is Gotham Calling’s seventh anniversary! I usually mark these occasions with a compilation of fifty images from Batman comics, showcasing the Dark Knight kicking people in the head or breaking through windows. Since the blog’s identity has been shifting … Continue reading
Posted in HARDBOILED CRIME
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cold War, Frank Miller, Graham Greene, movies, noir, politics, The Spirit, World War II
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A couple of mind-bending novels
It’s been a while since I’ve discussed books without pictures in this blog… And since the world seems to be struggling to return to a form of normality these days, let’s have a look at a couple of remarkable novels … Continue reading
Collected war comics
The folks at Dead Reckoning sent a copy of Garth Ennis’ and Carlos Ezquerra’s The Tankies for me to review, so I figured it would be fun to put the book into context by discussing it together with other collections … Continue reading
Posted in SPYCRAFT & WARFARE
Tagged Alan Hebden, Alex Toth, Battle, Battlefields, Cam Kennedy, Carlos Ezquerra, Charles Biro, Cold War, Dave Berg, espionage, Fighting Mann, Frontline Combat, Garth Ennis, Gene Colan, Harvey Kurtzman, Hector Ezquerra, Joe Kubert, John Severin, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Mike Western, politics, R.C. Harvey, Reed Crandall, Ric Estrada, Russ Heath, The Tankies, Tony Avina, Two-Fisted Tales, Vietnam, War Dog, World War II
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2020’s books of the year: honorable mentions – part 3
If you read last weeks’ posts, you know what’s going on. Here are another five comics that came out in 2020 and feature neat takes on adventure, crime, horror, espionage, mystery, war, science fiction, and/or the occasional hero with bizarre … Continue reading
Posted in BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Tagged Adam Strange, Alessandro Miracolo, Bob Q, Bryce Ingman, Chelsea Cain, Clayton Cowles, Cold War, Conan, Craig Rousseau, Elise McCall, Evan Shaner, Fran Strukan, Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows, Jason Aaron, Jim Rugg, Joe Caramagna, John Layman, Lia Miternique, Mark Russell, Mitch Gerads, Octobriana, politics, Punisher, Rachelle Rosenberg, Red Sonja, science fiction, Spy Island, Stella Greenvoss, Strange Adventures, sword & sorcery, Tom King
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