Issue 1, Summer 2009
The Comics Decoder
Panels Unravelled, Cartoons Exhumed
Issue 1, Summer 2009
Webs in Lynch's Closet? / R. W. Watkins
Watkins explores uncanny similarities between David Lynch's Blue Velvet and the early Amazing Spider-Man
Because it's the comics story of 2009 so far...
The Long-awaited Watchmen Movie: Two Different Takes / Joe Griffin, Ben Rockwood
The Problem of Ambiguity in Understanding Comics / R. W. Watkins
Watkins dares take aim at Scott McCloud's sacred cow
Because a film version is due out soon (and besides, a first edition would simply seem empty without some Charles Burns)...
Two Reviews of Burns's Black Hole / Geof Huth, R. W. Watkins
An Examination of the Role of Mythology in Shaping Comics, and Vice Versa / R. W. Watkins
An old 4th-year sociology paper dating from Watkins's university days, resurrected and updated for your enlightenment
About this issue's contributors...
Brief bios with pics
The Funnies
Kurt Beaulieu's Sabine, Dennis Hyer's Inhuman Relations (3 installments), R. W. Watkins's A Dark Glimpse,
Mike White's Pigtails & Potbellies (10 installments), R. W. Watkins's Unlawful Disposals
Sabine by Kurt Beaulieu
Inhuman Relations by Dennis Hyer
A Dark Glimpse by R. W. Watkins
Pigtails & Potbellies by Mike White
Unlawful Disposals by R. W. Watkins
