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March Issue of Sequential Tart

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:16:17 +0000

The March issue of Sequential Tart is now online at http://www.sequentialtart.com/. It is an issue that started to blow me away as soon as I saw the new content while helping to proof some articles a couple of days ago. I absolutely love the new series about metanarratives in comics, Messing with Metanarratives, by Suzette Chan. I was also tickled to see that Pam Bliss’s Hopelessly Lost But Making Good Time series delves into shapeshifters this month, since one of my main characters in The Myth of Merula is going to be a very strong specimen of the shapeshifter archetype, among other things. It was thrilling to me to be able to interview Gwen Rachel Stanley for this issue, especially since I’ve written briefly about her work a couple of times in this blog. I find her style fresh, unique and exciting. These are just a few of the highlights that hit me first, but there is so much more content to explore!

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What Came True in V for Vendetta?

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:09:36 +0000

This article originally appeared in the January 2007 issue of the Sequential Tart Webzine.

Like Isaac Mendez, the comic artist of NBC’s Heroes who can paint the future, some comics creators find that their work at least partially anticipates some aspects of the future. In his introduction to the original DC Comics run of V for Vendetta, Alan Moore wrote that he and artist David Lloyd had played something of a Cassandra role in anticipating the future, when they created V for Vendetta. In his and Deepak Chopra’s Comic-Con panel of July 20, 2006, Grant Morrison said of his work on The Invisibles, “We had things that went into the comic and would then manifest themselves in the real world and in my life.”

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Review of A Girl and Her Fed

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:22:29 +0000

This review originally appeared in the Sequential Tart Webzine on December 1, 2006.

Publisher
Brooke Spangler
http://agirlandherfed.com

Credits
Creators: Brooke Spangler

Grade: 7
A Girl and Her Fed follows the daily life of a young, single, female, liberal journalism intern who is under the surveillance of the fed. Her fed knows that she is not a terrorist, but ever since she has written an article defending civil liberties, he has just been doing his job by following orders to open her mail and watch her. This sounds like a deadly serious subject, but the topic is rendered hilarious by its treatment by Brooke Spangler.

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Review of Oz/Wonderland Chronicles #1

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:33:05 +0000

This review of Oz/Wonderland Chronicles #1 originally appeared in the Sequential Tart Webzine on December 1, 2006. If you’ve not yet read the comic, be aware that this review contains spoilers.

Publisher
BuyMeToys.com
http://www.buymetoys.com/

Credits
Writer: Ben Avery, Casey Heying
Penciler: Casey Heying
Colorist: Snocone Studios, Casey Heying
Letterer: Comicraft
Cover Artist: Joe Jusko, Boris Vallejo

Grade: 8

This second issue of The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles begins with Humpty Dumpty singing on a wall, when he is rudely interrupted by the Jabberwocky, a fearsome creature imagined in a poem and brought to life. As Humpty falls off the wall, Alice wakes from a nightmare in which she has seen these events unfold. She immediately sits up in bed, grabs her guitar and begins to compose a song out loud, singing Humpty’s lyrics.

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January Issue of Sequential Tart

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:46:21 +0000

This morning, I have been reading the January issue of the Sequential Tart Webzine to help put me in the mood for 2007. In this issue, there are interviews with Mike and Louise Carey, Barb Lien-Cooper and Adrien van Viersen. In the featured articles, Shaenon Garrity lets us in on her secret origin of a fangirl, Pam Bliss writes #69 in her comics creation series “Hopelessly Lost, But Making Good Time”, Mary Borsellino writes about comics tie-ins in new media culture, Corrina Lawsonsays why she believes that the DC’s hardcover Absolute edition of The New Frontier was worth the price, and I take a look at how prophetic the V for Vendetta comic series was.

For comicon reports, Alice Doyle gives us the lowdown on Dublin City Comicon 2006.

In columns, Brian K. Vaughn is the subject of this month’s Tart Tastes, Young Avengers Volume One: Sidekicks gets a Fantastic Firsts article, Robert Lach writes about the mainstream audience in the redirected male column, the Tart to Heart column spotlights favorite covers and Lisa Lopacinski gives us an insider’s angle on the ups and downs of the comic book store business.

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