Tag: Charles Burns

A comic book store can be a vast and wonderful landscape, but sometimes it’s nice to have a compass to help you as you wander those aisles. With that in mind, the Hero Complex and the mighty G4TV.com have teamed up for a new weekly series of video recommendations — Geoff Boucher of the Hero Complex will select and celebrate a new release  from the vivid world of superheroes and more traditonal -minded fare, while the always insightful Blair Butler of G4′s Fresh Ink blog will recommend a worthy new release from the “non-spandex” side of comics, those graphic novels and alternative press titles that use their comics panels in the name of memoir, literary experimentation or underground voice. RECENT AND RELATED CAPES/NO CAPES: “Earth 1″ & “Acme Library” Charles Burns and “X’ed Out” seeks dark edge Brad Meltzer: Why ‘Superman vs Muhammad Ali’ is still the greatest Darywn Cooke reloads with “The Outfit”

Charles Burns is back with his first major work since the venereal teen horror of the 2004′s ”Black Hole“  and Ben Schwartz, editor of The Best American Comics Criticism,” has reviewed it for the Los Angeles Times. Here’s an excerpt from the review… “I try to control it … try to focus in on the good things … waking up with Sarah on a clear, beautiful day … walking with her through Chinatown, the sky impossibly bright and blue. Everything bright and clean and new … but my eyes always drift … I always look down.” That’s how the dream always goes for Doug, the main character of Charles Burns’ new graphic novel, “X’ed Out.” In a Burns comic, you just know things aren’t going to go well from there. Fans of Burns, who haven’t seen a major work out of him since ...