Posted 12/28/10 1:07 pm ET by MTV Geek in Best Of, Comic Books
Enough about what we think are the best comics of 2010...what do the comic creators think? MTV Geek asked some of the hottest comic book writers and artists out there for their top three picks of 2010!
Posted 11/26/10 6:00 pm ET by Eddie Wright in Comic Books, Drawn and Quaterly, Reviews
To put it simply, Chris Ware's The ACME Novelty Library Volume 20, leveled me. As I finished its final page and closed the beautifully bound cover, I had a lingering, buzzing pain in my chest. A pain that felt like guilt, regret, loss, love, emotion. Everything that Ware's main character, Jordan "Jason" Wellington Lint, felt as his journey ended. The impact of the images, the complexity buried within each word, the layout of the pages, and the raw human intensity of the story affected me deeply.
The ACME Novelty Library Volume 20 is part of Ware's epic graphic novel experiment, "Rusty Brown". Jordan Lint was the school bully in previous volumes of Ware's examination of the life of a geek named Rusty Brown. But, as we learn in Volume 20, Lint is not a simple thug or a goon. There are reasons for his behavior, as there are reasons for everything humans do. Some kids are the geeks and some are the bullies. Read more...
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