Critiquing Comics 022: “The Legend of Spacelord Mo Fo”

While technically a comic, The Legend of Spacelord Mo Fo attempts to be a bit of a comics/animation hybrid — not a “motion comic”, but something like manually flipping through the frames of a movie. Does the technique succeed? Does the writing back it up? Tim and Mulele ponder. Deconstructing Comics site Follow Tim on [...]

Critiquing Comics 021: “War Within” and “Zombie Headhunter”

Critiquing Comics returns! Along with it, the work of Guy LeMay (“Z-Blade XX”) also returns, as he gives us a look at his more recent work. Listen to find out how Tim and Mulele evaluate “War Within” (written by Marcus Jones) and “Zombie Headhunter” (written by Guy and Tamey LeMay), both released under Guy’s Strong [...]

Critiquing Comics #020: Ryan Cecil Smith’s “SF”

Comedy and tragedy, the macabre and the mundane, dwell together comfortably in the pages of “SF” #1, from Ryan Cecil Smith! Tim, Mulele, and Kumar try to figure out what makes it tick. Deconstructing Comics site Follow Tim on Twitter | Facebook group

Critiquing Comics 019: “Black Snow” and “Electric 1937″

Tim and Mulele are back with two comics, submitted for critique by their creators: Michael Balestreri & Alex Siquig have several comics at blacksnowcomic.com, all of them centering around a group of superheroes. We tap our feet on the non-existent floor, and invoke Chris Schweizer’s “Guide to Spotting Tangents.” (Chris appeared in Deconstructing Comics Episode [...]