The Comics Decoder Panels Unravelled, Cartoons Exhumed  Issue 2, Spring 2011 Ms. Schein's complete thesis on the often shakey relationship between the two art forms And speaking of poetry and comics... Four Poems Inspired by the Comics / Artie Gold, Lorraine Schein, Bianca Stone, R. W. Watkins Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, A Review / Robin S. Rosenberg, Ph.D. Fabulous? Flop? Fiasco? Dr. Rosenberg's take on what is probably the comics story of recent months So you want to be a superhero (or supervillain)? Watkins sheds some realistic light on the usual routes to superdom in this chapter from his experimental novel-in-progress, Continued After Next Page... Catalysts of Origin / R. W. Watkins Because there's always room for some Charles Burns coverage... Review: X'ed Out by Charles Burns / Rob Wells Harvey Pekar: A Great Man is Dead / Abraham Kurp Mr. Kurp's thoughts on the great writer-curmudgeon's recent passing Fear & Loving: Beauty & The Beast and King Kong Archetypes in Classic Spider-Man / R. W. Watkins Another old paper dating from Mr. Watkins's university years. He's completely baffled as to how he scored a 10/10 on this one The Funnies Bianca Stone's A Poetry Comic, Dennis Hyer's Mullein Fields (4 installments), Bill Harvey's The Odds (3 installments), Rob Wells's Rude Birds of Britain, Kurt Beaulieu's Sabine, R. W. Watkins's A Dark Glimpse, Rob Wells's The Spidey Variations (3 installments), Mike White's Pigtails & Potbellies (10 installments) A Poetry Comic by Bianca Stone  Mullein Fields by Dennis Hyer     The Odds by Bill Harvey 
 Sabine by Kurt Beaulieu  A Dark Glimpse by R. W. Watkins (with apologies to E. R. Cruz)  The Odds by Bill Harvey  The Spidey Variations by Rob Wells    The Odds by Bill Harvey  Pigtails & Potbellies by Mike White           |