Batman and Robin #9 the annocommentations
February 27th, 2010
Here and in the comments, we got the shit ain’t no-one else got. Read on!
Batman and Robin #8
February 15th, 2010
Let’s annocommentate!
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Amy: ‘What is it with these Crime Coven people and their obsession with stories for kids?’ What is it indeed? Perhaps it has something to do with the rogue logic of fairytales and nursery rhymes, their criminal physics? Alice in Wonderland as topology, a map of a world overturned, where reason and meaning begin their steady descent into the abyss, Cole’s ‘hole in everything’.
Fairytales also speak to our primal condition, a preverbal world of gods and nightmares. Maybe the Crime Covens see their work as an attempt to return mankind to a purer state, unrestrained by ego and superego, culture, law and society.
Shit, they sound pretty cool, don’t they?
Oh, whose side are we all on?
Batman and Robin #7: Amy’s additional annocommentations
February 7th, 2010
Here’s some of my annotations that I didn’t put up because I was too busy writing a script for my new Young Heroes in Love series that’ll be hitting the shelves in…uh, oh, I don’t know, let’s keep it positive, sometime over the next three years.
Batman & Robin #7: the annocommentations
February 2nd, 2010
Bob: This is not only the best issue of B&R yet, but the best single issue of Morrison’s batman run by some margin, and as dense and full a piece as he’s written since Seven Soldiers #1, with which it shares many links and referents, both deliberate, accidental and incidental.
Zom: Tan’s a nice chap, some of us around here were quite keen on his work, but if you ask me thank God for Cameron Stewart: Batman & Robin is back at long last. This isn’t my favourite issue and I’ll get into some of the reasons why later, but it’s a bloody good one.
Seaguy - Slaves of Mickey Eye #2: The annocommentations
May 21st, 2009
Annocommentations for issue 1 can be found here and here
Interview with Cameron Stewart can be found here
And so we go at it again, better, stronger and much, much, much later than you could ever have imagined.
Onwards with the annocommentations, which, if you’re visiting us for the first time, you should understand as not being much like conventional annotations…
Seaguy - Slaves of Mickey Eye: the annocommentations (part 2)
April 13th, 2009
(Part 2 of these annocommentations can be found here)
Words that you might have seen used rather a lot elsewhere in relation to this comic:
Mad
Crazy
Insane
Weird
All fine words I grant you, but sadly they all too often help to close down critical discussion rather than open it up. Hopefully we can do a bit better than that.
Final Crikeysis #7 - Black holes and plot holes (part 2 of 2)
February 6th, 2009
Final Crikeysis #7 - All foreground, all the time! (part 1 of 2)
February 2nd, 2009
It’s been a long time coming, but the Mindless Ones have at last vomited forth some thoughts on Final Crisis #7. And it turns out that we’ve got so much to say on the subject that this is but part 1 of a 2 part crikeysis extravaganza. So without further ado, let’s get on with the annocommentations…
More thoughts on Final Crisis #6
January 26th, 2009
Like a small child left in a room made of cake, we just can’t help ourselves: Bobsy has added his thoughts to our FC#6 mindless-fest.
Go read
