Category Archives: Comics

The Humanities

By Steen | August 14, 2008

Lodged somewhere between pastiche and mockery, this seems quite accurate to me. Except, I don’t like Richard Marx.

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Jeff Smith, Bone

By Steen | November 5, 2005

Jeff Smith’s comicbook Bone is a unique achievement and a strange genre mix; on the one hand it resembles the naive, innocent fun of early comic strips, while on the other hand it is an epic fantasy tale. The achievement lies in creating a successful blend of these two seemingly disparate genres.

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The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan’s critique of the society of the spectacle

By Steen | September 19, 2005

In this paper, I investigate the binary opposition, which is instated between words as true and images as false in Warren Ellis and Darick Roberts’ Transmetropolitan series, which deals heavily with the notion of truth in a dystopic future. The series’ protagonist Spider Jerusalem is a journalist trying to show a world that doesn’t care [...]

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Tim Story, Fantastic Four

By Steen | August 6, 2005

Another superhero film, which seems to have become all the rave lately. Unfortunately, this one does not cut it like the last one I saw Batman Begins. The story is tepid, the acting is lack-lustre and worst of all it does not capture one of the greatest villains ever Dr Doom.
Unlike a number of superhero [...]

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Chris Nolan, Batman Begins

By Steen | July 23, 2005

The best Batman film made to date, and probably for a long time after as well. It is unfortunate that Chris Nolan does not seem eager to pursue the franchise more, but it is quite understandable that he wishes to return to smaller films. These will probably be even better still, as film franchises have [...]

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