That’s a good question, one that Benita and I’ve bantered back and forth.
My position is that this comic is noir or at least nourish because of its moral ambiguity, urban setting, crime and criminals, and its celebration of doomed and/or fatalistic characters. We also have femme fatales, police, hard-luck heroes, brutal action, [...]
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Hi, Folks!
This weekend I read Hellboy, Volume 8, Darkness Calls. As usual for Hellboy comics, this was dark, moody, and full of delicious contrasts. Unlike other Hellboy comics, Mike Mignola did not provide the penciling and inking, rather assigning Duncan Fegredo the “heavy lifting.” I’ll explain why this is noteworthy to me, as I would [...]
