Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Gods, Not Wearing Spandex

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Can you name them all?

Song & Album of the Year: 2007


My favorite song of the year is probably pretty obscure to some people, which just shows how pathetic the music industry has become. 



Jack Kirby, Mindbomb: Silver Star, Heroes and 9/11

This past July, Image Comics released a gorgeous hardcover volume of Jack Kirby's 1983 mini-series Silver Star. Though not one of Kirby's more celebrated works (his drafting skills were beginning to wane by this point), to me it's one of his more fascinating creations. It's also rife with unsettlingly specific 9/11 signifiers that strain the definition of "coincidence."