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Comics for Christ

Young Laurel Templeton spends her summer vacation “kidnapped by five cyborg flies and shrunk down to insect size so [she can] travel back in time with them to save the world from an evil spider.” You know, typical stuff.
Evangelicals are speaking in bubbles — and fighting God’s war on pop culture
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  October 10, 2007
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The Golden Age of Comics

Ever wondered what would happen if the famed Simpsons ’ Comic Book Guy held a master’s in literary criticism?
Comic critic Douglas Wolk on Reading Comics
By JON MEYER  |  August 02, 2007
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Heat waves

“Summer joys are spoilt by use,” wrote John Keats, meaning the less you do between June and August, the better.
Summer reads to cool off with
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  June 28, 2007
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Ice and fire

Burning Man began as a San Francisco pyromaniacs’ beach party in 1986.
Ice Cream’s cold contemporary art, Burning Man’s hot stuff
By GREG COOK  |  June 28, 2007
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Sifting the trash heap

There’s an image in an old Warlock comic book by Jim Starlin that sums up a lot of the peculiar, shared pleasure of reading comics.
Things I love about the gold and the garbage in comics
By DOUGLAS WOLK  |  June 28, 2007
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Over the top

“Your life. Your war.”
Rick Veitch sends Sgt. Rock to ‘Afbaghistan’
By DOUGLAS WOLK  |  April 17, 2007
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Sex, Iraq, and pop culture

How many times a day do you think about sex? How many times a day do you think about the war in Iraq?
The war for our attention
By ELLEE DEAN  |  January 11, 2007
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Storyboarding

Brian K. Vaughan is one of the highest-profile writers in American comics right now, a hyper-prolific idea man whose projects are driven by crisp, suspenseful pacing and built around resonant metaphors.
Brian K. Vaughan’s world of comics
By DOUGLAS WOLK  |  January 02, 2007
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Polite and brave and honest?

Monthly comic-book sales have been dribbling downward for years, as the economy of the comics industry shifts to book collections and manga.
DC’s hit-and-miss attempt to make its superheroes inspiring again
By DOUGLAS WOLK  |  April 27, 2006

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