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'Shattered Glass' It Ain't

Part confessional, part greatest hits collection, Rabid Nun offers a cursory look at the one place in American journal where it's still okay to lie -- the checkout line tabloids.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 12-15-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Elvis, Rabid Nun Infects Entire Convent, Bigfoot, Oprah, Space Aliens, Tom D’Antoni

Best of Both Worldsnew

Three solid new small press comics straddle the worlds of indy and mainstream.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 12-08-2005 | Original Work

Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors

Never Super-er

No need to wait until next summer to see the next viewer-friendly, blockbuster reinterpretation of Superman; it's right here in handy comic book format.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 11-24-2005 | Original Work

Tags: All-Star Superman, Christopher Reeve, Grant Morrison, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, Superman

Flying The Skull And Funnybones

Gideon Defoe's "Pirates!" adventure books are a blast, and if you're not careful, you just may learn something -- nothing of any value, of course, but something.

Columbus Alive | Bob Starker | 11-17-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Charles Darwin, Ahab, Gideon Dafoe, Gideon Defoe, nut allergies, pirates, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Ahab

Sean Hannity, Cyborg Hero of the People

A new comic book series posits a futuristic, liberal dystopia where the only thing between mollycoddled terrorists and the total annihilation of the American people are action heroes G. Gordon Liddy and Sean Hannity.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 11-10-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Coulter, G. Gordon Liddy, Liberality For All, Mike Mackey, Sean Hannity

Dr. Seuss, Pre-Med

A new collection of early works reveals Dr. Seuss as more than just another brand name or massively influential children's book author: He was a real, living artist whose work wasn't always all that great.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 11-09-2005 | Original Work

Tags: Dr. Seuss, The Lorax, Theodor Seuss Geisel: The Early Works of Dr. Seuss, Winsor McCay

Toothpaste -- It's What's for Dinner

First-name-only cartoonist Drew's online comic strip Toothpaste for Dinner gets downloaded into a hard-copy collection.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 11-03-2005 | Original Work

Tags: Dilbert, Drew, Toothpaste For Dinner, Toothpaste for Dinner: Hipsters, Hamsters and Other Pressing Issues

Don't Quit Now

What does Harvey Pekar still have left to reveal about himself? How about his secret origin?

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 10-27-2005 | Original Work

Tags: Harvey Pekar, The Quitter

Canonizing Morrissey

"MetroDaddy" Mark Simpson offers a unique sortabiography of the former Smiths frontman -- one worth reading.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 10-27-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey

A Taste Of Honey

With her .38 and 38-inch bust, '50s pulp fiction heroine Honey West returns to bookshelves in a reprint of her first adventure.

Columbus Alive | Bob Starker | 10-20-2005 | Fiction

Tags: 38-inch bust, bludgeoned to death, G. G. Fickling, Honey West, This Girl for Hire

All You Wanted to Know About Mackin'

King Flex offers wannabe playas dubious advice for scoring more high quality honeys and fewer chickenheads and hoodrats.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 09-29-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Lions, Charlie's Angels, Jermaine Dupri, King Flex, macking, Tariq “King Flex” Nasheed, The Mack Within: The Holy Book of Game

Fossil Feud

Graphic novel digs up the too good to be anything but true story of the warring paleontologists who introudced America to the dinosuars, plus the sex secrets of alternative cartoonists.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 09-29-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: porn, Various, Bonesharps, Cowboys and Thunder Lizards / True Porn 2, Dinosaurs, P.T. Barnum, Potter Stewart