Send in the Third String: An Argument for the Importance of Less Popular...
It is difficult to choose your favorite superhero. Most fans of any universe or mythology will immediately select the one that is the most well known or frequently seen in comparison to those that are…...
View ArticleConstructing a Perfect Reality
“Thus only in a dream we are at one, Thus only in a dream we give and take The faith that maketh rich who take or give”- Monna Innominata by Christina Rossetti The topic of… [more]
View ArticleThe Complete D.R. & Quinch: Alan Moore’s Sci-Fi Fun Time
Like many readers who discovered the world of comics in bookstores rather than comic shops, the works of Alan Moore made an immediate impression on me. He’s a comic book rock star and, undeniably, one…...
View Article“The Fourth Means Is Most Terrible, And Rests On The Eviction Of A Soul…”...
“And yet, its realism was so hideous that I sometimes find hope impossible. If the thing did happen, then man must be prepared to accept notions of the cosmos, and of his own place in… [more]
View ArticleInside the Frontier: When Non-Comic Readers Can Learn From Reading The Star...
What kind of relationship do comic books and films share? This is a broad, subjective, and fairly debatable question to ask most comic readers, but it is still nonetheless a question that continuously...
View ArticleThe Days of EC: A Critical Examination of the Pulp Books of the Past and What...
The pages were pulpy and the colors were bright, the ink was fresh and the dialogue had been waxed freshly onto each page and all it cost was a nickel to buy. The panels were… [more]
View Article“It’s Like Underneath Everything There Is Just Chaos…” – Perspective and...
“Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare or a Witches’ Sabbath or a portrait of the devil, but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare… [more]
View ArticleSmorgasbord #38: Moon Witch is Gonna Get Ya
The Iron Fist casting news brings with it a large discussion which dominates the episode as Shawn and Tom discuss the Marvel monochrome universe, the diminished importance of source fidelity, and being...
View Article“Dreams, Writings And Our Outlandish Human Imaginings… They’re At The Very...
“ A blessed haze lies upon all this region, wherein is held a little more of the sunlight than other places hold, and a little more of the summer’s humming music of birds and bees;… [more]
View ArticleSequart Releases The British Invasion
Sequart Organization is proud to announce the publication of The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer, by Greg Carpenter. Moore....
View ArticleSmorgasbord #51: Goodbye, Northampton’s Rose
Shawn and Tom consider the legacy of Alan Moore as he prepares to leave comics forever(?); Shawn sings the praises of Outhouser Jude Terror for speaking truth to power; nobody puts Valiant in the...
View Article“…And Providence Hesitates On The Very Cusp Of Another World Than This.”...
“This stone, once exposed, exerted upon Blake an almost alarming fascination. He could scarcely tear his eyes from it, and as he looked at its glistening surfaces he almost fancied it was transparent,...
View ArticleThe British Invasion in Current Previews Catalog
If you like to make all of your hard-copy purchases through your Local Comics Shop, and you want The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and the Invention of the Modern Comic...
View ArticleA Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: Work in Progress
This is an experiment, you understand. I haven’t written for Sequart in quite some time and in addition to other articles I want to write, I’ve decided I wanted to try something I haven’t really… [more]
View ArticleA Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: A Host of Angles
You know there’s going to be a story when you’re told, flat out, that the protagonist is going to go insane. I feel like for every detail I catch in my reading of Jerusalem, there… [more]
View Article“The Universe Doesn’t Care. This Is Not Punishment, But Rather It Is...
“I will tell the audient void. . . . I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval… [more]
View ArticleAARGH! RESIST! A Retrospective and a Prelude
In my four-part article Not By Something As Accidental as Blood: Bash Back, my research into Lawrence Gullo, Fyodor Pavlov, and Kelsey Hercs’ work took me to places I hadn’t gone before while, in...
View ArticleA Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: “ASBOs of Desire”
There are a few things worth noting before I go on here. I might have mentioned this earlier, through my impressions of the previous chapter but unlike Alan Moore’s previous novel Voice of the Fire,…...
View ArticleA Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: Rough Sleepers
I didn’t know what to make of this chapter at first. To be honest, it’d been a while since I’d read Jerusalem after taking time to undertake some other projects. Certainly the preceding chapter “ASBOs…...
View ArticleA Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: X Marks the Spot
A lot of events occurred in Jerusalem’s “Rough Sleepers” chapter. Moore’s nature of time, at least with regards to Northampton and the Burroughs had been revealed as eternalism: as space and time...
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