Issue 4, Spring 2013
The Comics Decoder
Panels Unravelled, Cartoons Exhumed
Issue 4, Spring 2013
What Happened to our Superheroes? / Michael French
Mr. French bemoans the dubious revisionism that increasingly plagues mainstream comics
Comic Buying: The Missing Past and the Bendy Future / Stephen Walker
British sci-fi novelist Walker recounts his life stages in Sheffield from a purchaser's point of view
Continuing on a nostalgic theme, we present the personal recollections of a webslinger fan...
My Brief History with Spider-Man / Michael French
Review: THE HIVE by Charles Burns / Henry Chamberlain
The second volume in Burns's projected trilogy is examined by the Alice in New York cartoonist
Old Pond Haiku Comics: A History and General Overview / Jessica Tremblay
Haiku poet Tremblay brings us up to speed on her contribution to the comics medium
Two decades after its completion, Mr. Watkins considers Dan Poole's classic Spider-Man fan film
Gen-X Wall-crawling without the Plaid Flannel:
The Green Goblin's Last Stand in Context / R. W. Watkins
About this issue's contributors...
Brief bios with pics
ARCHIVES
The Funnies
Jessica Tremblay’s Old Pond Comics (4 installments), Dennis Hyer's Inhuman Relations (8 installments),
Bill Harvey's The Odds (2 installments), Kurt Beaulieu's The Quiet Oppression of Museums (Part Two),
R. W. Watkins's A Dark Glimpse
Inhuman Relations by Dennis Hyer
The Odds by Bill Harvey
The Quiet Oppression of Museums by Kurt Beaulieu
(Cont'd from Issue 3)
A Dark Glimpse by R. W. Watkins
The Odds by Bill Harvey
