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Kaoru Mori’s A Bride’s Story… Stripp’d

Kaoru Mori’s A Bride’s Story… Stripp’d

December 20, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

If you wander around a second hand book shop and start leafing through old history textbooks you will rapidly notice that history used to be…

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DC: THE NEW FRONTIER… Stripp’d

DC: THE NEW FRONTIER… Stripp’d

October 30, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

0. Looking Back in order to Move Forward One of the more interesting developments in superhero comics has been the growing popularity of comics that…

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Ludwig II… Stripp’d

Ludwig II… Stripp’d

October 1, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

0. The Challenge of Escapism Like Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), we live our lives obsessed by thoughts of escape. Escape from our…

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Chew… Stripp’d

Chew… Stripp’d

August 24, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

Food is the archetypal First World problem. While some parts of the world starve and other parts are turned inside out by our demand for…

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 6

Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 6

August 20, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

Okay, so here’s the thing… I started in on the sixth volume of Ooku: The Inner Chambers without bothering to re-read either the previous volumes…

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Phonogram… Stripp’d

Phonogram… Stripp’d

July 31, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

One could argue that the enduring popularity of genre motifs is a direct result of the death of God. Prior to the Enlightenment, the people…

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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit… Stripp’d

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit… Stripp’d

June 9, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

Some would say that beautiful lives bloom only in the shadow cast by death. But while this may very well be true, how could we…

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Universal War One… Stripp’d

Universal War One… Stripp’d

April 19, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

The Christian conception of redemption is an oddly commercial one. Grounded in Old Testament talk of ransoming the slaves, redemption is presented as a transaction…

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The Chimpanzee Complex… Stripp’d

The Chimpanzee Complex… Stripp’d

March 17, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

This is the first in what will be an on-going series of columns. Every month, Jonathan McCalmont will look at a different set of comics….

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 5

Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 5

March 9, 2011
by Jonathan McCalmont
Comic Books

At the end of volume one of Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku: The Inner Chambers, the Shogun Yoshimune asks an elderly monk to explain to her “the…

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