Nov 01, 2008
Comic Books
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
Twenty-five years ago, Mister X was an expressionistic trip for the mind. Dark Horse’s remastered hardcover collection lives up to that legacy.
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Nov 01, 2008
Comic Books
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
When the Joker is released from Arkham Asylum, his first order of business is to reclaim his territory and to show Gotham’s other villains (notably Two Face and The Penguin) who’s boss. The story is told from the perspective of a two-bit hood named Jonny Frost, who volunteers to pick up the Joker from the asylum and hopes to hit the big time as the Joker’s right-hand man.
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Nov 01, 2008
Comic Books
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
Rutu Modan’s characters recall the “clear line” style of Hergé’s Tintin series or the late Margaret Kilgallen. Despite these comparisons, the Israeli cartoonist fashions unique colloquial narratives that recede into each panel with a restful color palette.
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Nov 01, 2008
Comic Books
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
Writer Matt Fraction’s deft narrative explorations of Shell Head’s personal five nightmares dig up his past with Obadiah Stane and his misgivings regarding the future.
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Studio: IFC Films
Directed by Steven Soderbergh; Starring Benicio Del Toro
Nov 01, 2008
Cinema
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
As a whole, Che, which comprises two Spanish-language films over two hours each, is this decade’s most imposing film by an American director to receive theatrical distribution.
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Nov 01, 2008
Comic Books
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
The first two issues of the 5-issue miniseries Back to Brooklyn don’t show much promise, nor do they make a convincing case for why we need yet another clichéd gangster tale.
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Nov 01, 2008
Music
Franz Ferdinand
They’ve always flirted with dance music, with the best moments of their first two releases often driven by barbed guitars and angular hooks that were often underscored by a remarkably propulsive rhythm section that locked down airtight grooves.
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Nov 01, 2008
Music
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
In one form or another, nearly the entire history of rock ’n’ roll has been devoted to rebelling against society. But on the followup to Love Is All’s crush-worthy 2005 debut, Nine Times the Same Song, singer Josephine Olausson devotes nearly every song to simply avoiding society.
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Nov 01, 2008
Music
Late of the Pier
These guys are getting a lot of Klaxons comparisons, appropriate enough given their youth and the club-readiness of their songs. They’re launching from that same nu-rave and dancepunk postmodern platform, for sure, but they’ve got an ear to the past and a complete unwillingness to filter their work.
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Nov 01, 2008
Music
Mark Kozelek
Considering Sun Kil Moon just came out with an album earlier this year, Mark Kozelek titling another of his forays into the world of covers “Finally” is an odd choice.
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