Gladwell’s particular genius manifests by offering simple theories with incredibly complex practical applications. He argues that specific and precise causes undergird every social phenomenon that hits the Tipping Point, but rarely do they ever arise from the mass advertising campaigns or social programs that one might expect.
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Where the graphic novel’s first volume (Welcome to Lovecraft) revolved around loss of family and volume two (Head Games) revealed dark secrets that characters keep hidden from their loved ones, the first issue of latest volume, “Crown of Shadows,” suggests that this installment will finally reveal what’s up with Dodge (the villain) and his dangerous powers.
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Hill’s scripts are more nuanced than average comic-fare, but it would be impossible to separate his prose foundation from its realization in the incredible artwork of Gabriel Rodriguez. The artist takes each element to an even higher level of complexity.
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Created by Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman, the film’s screenwriters/producers, this four-part mini-series fills a gaping hole in the timeline left by the movie.
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This would definitely be something you’d find on prime time CBS if it wasn’t for the incredible art and solid storytelling.
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Young Eyes, Deep Insights by Rachel Deveau Everyone loved Margo Roth Spiegalman. Even her next door neighbor, Quentin, though he thought himself stratospheres below her – a band geek and nerd. Then one morning, Margo disappeared. Quentin searches for his friend in the upcoming novel Paper Towns by Printz Medal-winning author John Green. The 29-year-old […]
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Heart of the Hills by K.C. Rawley “Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song” By Ted Anthony Ever since the Beatles invaded America in 1964 with an album that contained mostly rhythm and blues covers, a few original songs, and a version of ‘Till There Was You’ from The Music Man, British […]
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The Haunting of Hill’s House By James Roland In the horror world, author Joe Hill stands ready to take the throne from the likes of Barker, Gaiman, and King. He made his mark four years ago in Europe with his first short story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, and last year in America with his debut […]
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Looking Forward, Looking Back by Jason Helms Thirty years ago, Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes rocked the comics world with Omega the Unknown, a smart, self-conscious, postmodern meditation on the then-relevant caped crusader. This year, critically-acclaimed upstart hipster novelist Jonathan Lethem tries his hand at the underground epic. The first issue of the new Omega […]
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Chess for the Rest of Us by Evan Shultz The Immortal Game, by David Shenk, continues the wonderful trend in non-fiction books that brought us the recent bestseller Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. For those who haven’t read it yet, Freakonomics technically is a book about economics; it just isn’t so […]
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