Bookmarks for December 18th, 2008
- Indy Comic News Reader’s Best Of 2008 | (doktor sleepless) – Indy Comic News recently asked its readers to submit their own Best Of 2008 comic book and graphic novels list to us which would eventually be collected and added to the site. While there wasn’t one dominate title there were quite a few which made it on a lot of the submitted lists. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to send us their lists!
- Jamie Delano’s Narcopolis | alterati – AZURE LOVE, the female agent who investigates suspect Gray Neighbour, has recently separated from a lover due to relationship pressures exerted by her job. Some vibration from Neighbour sparks her investigator’s curiosity. Although she can find no evidence in his present or past through which to condemn him, she uses a flimsy pretext to justify her continuing surveillance of his day-to-day life. Eventually she is forced to conclude that the vibration which excites her is sexual.
- ENTERING NARCOPOLIS I: JAMIE DELANO – NEWSARAMA – The eponymous Rawbone is a folk memory to terrify children and vulnerable populations, an historic pirate captain who predated the Caribbean a hundred years before our story and died uncaptured. Legend has it that this mythic spectre of evil and his "undead" crew aboard their rotten ghost ship (La Respiracia De Muerte – The Breath of Death) can be conjured by bad magic and brought to the aid of any prepared to mortgage their soul for their ends. Rawbone symbolizes the ultimately bitter redundancy of fanaticism and "terror" as a tactic of resistance to oppression.
- Comic Book Resources > CBR News: Future Imperfect: Jamie Delano talks “Narcopolis” – Narcopolis is an imaginary, near-future, fortified, island city-state, with a technologically advanced, complex but self-absorbed population," Jamie Delano told CBR News."Its citizens enjoy a relatively comfortable existence, gratefully protected from an omnipresent threat of violence from the 'outside' — which occasionally is randomly realized — by an elite, diligent and all-pervasive security apparatus: T.R.U.S.T.
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