Swamp Thing # 57, 58, 59 & 60 - Moore, Veitch & Totleben
Sometimes it’s quite difficult for me to imagine how DC Comics survived. As most of you might know, DC went through a rough patch in the 80s, the so-called “implosion”, instead of launching new titles...
View ArticlePlanetary # 4 - Warren Ellis & John Cassaday
So far the Archeologists of the Impossible have been dealing with the secrets of the 20th century, but this time, amidst the rubbles of a destroyed office building, they find something else, something...
View ArticleJuly films / películas de julio
Last month I only had time for two films, this time, however, I have doubled the amount. Who knows? Maybe next month I’ll have a list of 8 movies…Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys (2014) is a very...
View ArticleSwamp Thing # 61, 62, 63 & 64 - Moore, Veitch & Bissette
Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing, like all literary masterpieces, was in constant evolution. It began as a horror title, then it started combining “sophisticated suspense” with fantasy, but in the final issues...
View ArticlePájaros en la cabeza - Mónica Cuba & Isabelle Decencière
I started this blog a long time ago, or at least that’s how it feels to me. It’s hard to remember what was going on in my life in 2010 when I started posting my drawings here, and getting less than a...
View ArticleJuly comic books / cómics de julio
With half a dozen of great comics, July proves to be a very fruitful month. Although nothing could be better than Miracleman, the second chapter of The Wicked + The Divine wins the award of best single...
View ArticleMiracleman # 6 & 7 - Alan Moore & Alan Davis
Miracleman attacks! / ¡Miracleman ataca!While Doctor Gargunza tells Liz Moran the details of his horrid past, Miracleman and Evelyn Cream track down the old villain and find his well-guarded villa. But...
View ArticleThe Pro - Garth Ennis & Amanda Conner
Most superheroes have secret identities and a civilian life. Clark Kent, for instance, is a journalist. Hawkman is an archeologist. Daredevil is a lawyer. Hulk is a scientist. Doctor Strange is a...
View ArticleVenancio Shinki - Lucía de la Puente
When I first posted something on this blog I had approximately one or two visitors per day. It took me a long time to actually appear on Google. And years to go from hundreds of visits each moth to a...
View ArticleMiracleman # 8 - Alan Moore & Chuck Austen
As a veteran horror fan, I’ve seen plenty of persecutions, hundreds of movies about people being chased by something awful, monstrous, supernatural and terribly lethal. And I’ve gotten used to it to...
View ArticlePlanetary # 5 - Warren Ellis & John Cassaday
Forget everything you were taught in school. The world has a secret history, a hidden past, something that can only be unearthed by the Archeologists of the Impossible. And what better way to...
View ArticleAugust films / películas de agosto
After a couple of months of reducing my film list, in August I decided to watch as many movies as I could. I tremendously enjoyed James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), a fast-paced space...
View ArticleThe Legion # 1, 2 & 3 - Abnett, Lanning & Coipel
Sometimes, the return of the heroes is just as important as their departure. As we have seen in the pages of “Legion Lost”, a group of 9 legionnaires traveled to the furthest reaches of the universe,...
View ArticleThe Legion # 4 & 5 - Abnett, Lanning, Coipel & Snejbjerg
Under the ruling of Ra’s Al Ghul, the world has changed. Nobody has realized how serious the change is, after all, people still think their president is Leland McCauley. And now, posing as McCauley,...
View ArticleInterrogantes - Dare Dovidjenko (Galería Lucía de la Puente)
À toute vitesse (1996) Directed by Gaël MorelCan homosexuality be successfully articulated in society? According to some, homosexuals are doomed to be secluded and restricted to marginalized worlds. As...
View ArticleAugust comic books / cómics de agosto
Kick-Ass begun 8 years ago. I never imagined I would come to love this title so much; the end of the third volume is truly the end of an era. I will definitely miss the adventures of Kick-Ass and...
View ArticleKICK-ASS 3 - Mark Millar
Most writers spend entire decades mimicking the style of their predecessors, unable to come up with new ideas. Only a few seem to have what it takes to reenergize the medium, to resurrect our passion...
View ArticleKICK-ASS 3 - Millar & Romita Jr.
Kick-Ass feels frustrated for his constant failures, and the laziness and apathy of some of his teammates. Finally, he decides to exile the fat man who had moved into Hit-Girl’s secret HQ and turned it...
View ArticlePlanetary # 6 - Warren Ellis & John Cassaday
A brilliant mind can be both: a gift and a curse. A superior intellect can never be a guarantee of a happier or better life. It all depends on the decisions we make with the resources available to us....
View ArticleSeptember films / películas de setiembre
If you read this blog frequently then you already know that Ryan Gosling is one of my favorite actors. And this month I has the chance to see him in Only God Forgives (2013), directed by Nicolas...
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