Name: Bill Sherman
Weblog: oakhaus.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 492
First Published: Friday, August 16, 2002
Last Published: Saturday, November 29, 2008
Currently listing articles 492-451:
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Graphic Fiction Review: Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce - edited by Tom Pomplun— A new edition of comic adaptations of the great American cynic's writings proves as entertainingly bleak as any alt comic.
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Graphic Novel Review: Hatter M - The Looking Glass Wars, Volume One by Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier, and Ben Templesmith— A graphic novel series expands upon the fantasy world of Frank Beddor's Looking Glass Wars.
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Music Review: Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime and Words from the Front— Two of the former Television front man's early solo albums get much-needed reissues.
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Comic Book Review: City of Dust #1 by Steve Niles & Zid— The newest Radical Comics mini-series is a dark and grisly dystopian sci-fi horror tale.
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Graphic Novel Review: Dugout by Adam Beechen and Manny Bello— A new graphic novel combines baseball and prison break yarn.
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Comics Review: Scrambled Ink edited by Diana Schutz— DreamWorks animators break from out of the studio and into book publication.
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DVD Review: Rebus - Set Three— Ken Stott's lived-in take on the popular Scottish police detective receives its third boxed set.
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Graphic Novel Review: Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez— The first six issues of Hill & Rodriguez' entertaining horror fantasy are collected in a new hardcover edition.
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Comics Review: From the Shadow of the Northern Lights edited by Johannes Klenell— An Anthology of Swedish Alternative Comics presents a whole cadre of unfamiliar (and hard to spell!) names to alt comics lovers.
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Music Review: Pacific! - Reveries— A Swedish studio duo's American debut — electro-pop with one foot in the seventies.
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Graphic Novel Review: Hellboy - Darkness Calls by Mike Mignola & Duncan Fegredo and The Hellboy Companion— Mike Mignola's demonic good guy fights undead warriors and demons in snow-blown Russia.
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Book Review: "The Workshop of Filthy Creation" - The Art of Johnny Ace and Kali Verra — A new hardbound collection pays tribute to the Kustom Kulture art of Johnny "Childish" Ace.
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Music Review: Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby — An engaging collaboration between the Britpop paranoid and his equally sharp spouse.
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DVD Review: Intelligence - Season One— The creator of Da Vinci's Inquest follows up with a complex undercover crime drama.
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Graphic Novel Review: Zot!: The Complete Black And White Collection by Scott McCloud— Scott McCloud's groundbreaking superhero comic gets a hefty trade paperback repackaging.
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Music Review: Apples in Stereo - Electronic Projects for Musicians— The alt power-poppers release an engaging set of B-Sides and Rarities.
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Graphic Fiction Review: How to Love by the Actus Comics Collective— The Israeli alt comics collective produces a new anthology of "graphic novellas" about love and its pursuit.
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DVD Review: Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers— Fred Olen Ray's bloody low-rent horror hit gets a 20th anniversary repackaging.
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Music Review: The Very Best of Little Richard— For all you flat-top cats and dungaree dolls: an ace collection of Little Richard's great early tracks.
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Graphic Novel Review: Too Cool to Be Forgotten by Alex Robinson— Alex Robinson's newest graphic novel transcends a gimmicky time-traveling premise with well-honed characterization.
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Music Review: The Residents - Duck Stab— A classic slab of avant-garde weirdness from the late seventies gets a spiffy new reissue.
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Comic Review: Freedom Formula #1 by Edmund Shern, Kai and Chester Ocampo— The newest Radical Comics mini-series takes us on a futuristic race aross a dystopian wasteland.
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DVD Review: Morella's Blood Vision— A direct-to-video horror hostess presents three "bone chilling chillers" for lovers of cheapie horror fare.
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Book Review: Vampyres of Hollywood by Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott— Actress Barbeau and her collaborator Scott serve a fast-paced blend of modified vampire lore and entertaining cinema cynicism.
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Music Review: The Baseball Project - Volume One - Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails— A supergroup of alt-rockers ruminates on the American pastime.
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TV Review: Gurren Lagann and Now and Then, Here and There— Sci-Fi Channel debuts two fresh anime imports in its Ani-Monday block.
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DVD Review: Da Vinci's Inquest - Season Three— The top-flight Canadian forensic procedural's third season gets a new boxed set.
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Graphic Novel Review: Aces: Curse of the Red Baron by Denton, Wilson & Square-Briggs— An entertaining action-comedy pits two squabbling WWI flyboys against a ghostly Red Baron.
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Manga Review: The Drifting Classroom, Volume Five by Kazuo Umezu— A classic survival horror manga pits school kids against an apocalyptic future world.
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Book Review: Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick— The first of five novels featured on a new Library of American volume is a heady meditation on time and schizophrenia.
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Music Review: Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha— The Brit-poppers latest release is a tough and tuneful return to form.
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Frank Miller Blogs About His Forthcoming Spirit Movie — The comic artist and director works to assuage fannish anxiety about his movie take on a landmark comic crime-fighter.
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Manga Review: Hell Girl Volume One by Miyuki Eto— Eternal damnation never looked so easy in this manga animé spin-off.
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Music Review: Fratellis - Here We Stand— The Glascow rockers return with a sophomore set of crisp, if slightly familiar sounding, pop tracks.
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DVD Review: Dark Ride — A slasher film entry in the "After Dark Horror Fest" series provides its share of good grim moments.
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Comic Book Reviews: Caliber and Hercules #1— A new comic book line, Radical Comics, debuts with two variations on familiar myths.
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Manga Review: Dark Metro by Tokyo Calen & Yoshiken— A new manga horror series finds ghosts and bloody vengeance in the bowels of the Tokyo subway.
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Graphic Novel Review: Fantasy Classics, Edited by Tom Pomplun— Volume Fifteen in the Graphic Classics series contains "romance, wizardry, dreamworlds & Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!"
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TV Review: Comic Books Unbound — A new Starz documentary looks at the rise and rise of comic book-based movies.
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Music Review: Sloan - Parallel Play— The Canadian power-poppers follow up their 30-track magnum pop opus with a smaller dose of rockin' goodness.
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DVD Review: The Skull — British horror icons Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee reunite in a sixties flick based on a Robert Bloch short story.
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Book Review: Super-Detective Flip Book by Robert Leslie Bellem et al.— A little known pulp hero from the early 1940s gets two adventures reprinted in the old Ace Double format.
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