Tag: Clayton Cowles

Dear Kieron, Jamie, Matt, and Clayton: I hate you. I woke up this morning, put on my Wic+Div shirt, ran to the comics shop, and strapped on my seatbelt.  I was happy that it was that...

In Kieron Gillen's talk on Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, Gillen emphasizes themes of time and cyclicality present in Moore's graphic novel.  Temporal symbolism recurs in everything from the Doomsday clock interstitials between...

There’s an air of impossibility surrounding this book. It begins with a song and vibrant neon crime fighting. It deflates the hyper-serious and allows for a sense of whimsy. When I started working behind the desk at a comic shop, something like this would have barely snuck through Marvel editorial as a one-shot - a reaction to an audience that had an appetite for Serious Comics about Things That Matter and very little else. Today things are clearly different.