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Run, Bong-Gu, Run! Review

Jeff Chon — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:00:07 +0000

Run, Bong-Gu, Run! Review" title="Run, Bong-Gu, Run! Review" style="float:left;" />“Bong-Gu” is the Korean word for “fart.” Although my buddy Kevin says it’s actually “Pong-Gu,” which led to a very lengthy discussion about pronunciation. Then we agreed to call the whole thing off. Significance of… [more]

Weirdling

Jeff Chon — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:28:14 +0000

Weirdling" title="Weirdling" style="float:left;" />As much as it fears me to admit this in a geek milieu, I must say I’m not a huge H.P. Lovecraft fan. I will say this about Lovecraft: he seems tailor-made for comics. Inexplicably,… [more]

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!

Jeff Chon — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:44:32 +0000

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!" title="I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!" style="float:left;" />You ever get to a point where you’re all, like, “Bah! Comics! Who needs them?” Also, have you ever written something that starts off with a rhetorical question? Because you’re not supposed to do that.… [more]

Black Hole

Jeff Chon — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:37:20 +0000

Black Hole" title="Black Hole" style="float:left;" />There are works out there that we get through the recommendations of others and then leave tucked away to collect dust, instead of digesting them right away and realizing that your friends have good taste.… [more]

Tanpenshu #1

Jeff Chon — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:30:54 +0000

Tanpenshu #1" title="Tanpenshu #1" style="float:left;" />A collection of three short stories, Hiroki Endo’s TANPENSHU Volume One is a hyper-dramatic punch in the gut. The sheer brutality of these stories sucks you into one of the morbid world of gangsters, melancholy… [more]

Truth Serum

Jeff Chon — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:55:36 +0000

Truth Serum" title="Truth Serum" style="float:left;" />Originally published by Slave Labor Graphics and then serialized on the Dark Horse website, Jon Adams’s engrossingly odd TRUTH SERUM is one of those comics that seemingly defies categorization. It has superheroes, but is clearly… [more]

Savage Dragon Archives Volume 1

Jeff Chon — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:51:55 +0000

Savage Dragon Archives Volume 1" title="Savage Dragon Archives Volume 1" style="float:left;" />Erik Larsen’s SAVAGE DRAGON ARCHIVES is like Jiffy Pop—Fun to consume, no real substantive value, and it looks really fun to make. It is, in essence, all that is good about superhero comics. It’s big,… [more]

The Pushman and Other Stories

Jeff Chon — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:40:07 +0000

The Pushman and Other Stories" title="The Pushman and Other Stories" style="float:left;" />Just as his friend Osamu Tezuka is the undisputed godfather of manga, Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the godfather of gekiga, it’s “alternative” cousin. Tatsumi coined the phrase gekiga, meaning “drama pictures,” to set it apart from… [more]

American Born Chinese

Jeff Chon — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:38:22 +0000

American Born Chinese" title="American Born Chinese" style="float:left;" />It’s hard for me to review AMERICAN BORN CHINESE without thinking about my own identity and experiences as a comic reader of Asian descent. And I also don’t want this to become fan mail, instead… [more]

The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924

Jeff Chon — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:42:49 +0000

The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924" title="The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924" style="float:left;" />I finally got around to reading THE FOUR IMMIGRANTS MANGA and it kind of made me feel guilty for all the time I wasted reading old school Iron Man comics with the ads for Hubba… [more]

Mister Chon, Suddenly I Wish to Leave Your Island (A shrill partisan talks about Birth of a Nation)

Jeff Chon — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:42:56 +0000

Do comics have a liberal bias? This seems like a loaded question because most conservatives will tell you everything has a liberal bias (You know, not counting the Supreme Court, the FCC, our new electoral… [more]

Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You (Chon discusses the Phoenix comic without mutants)

Jeff Chon — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:36:11 +0000

Phoenix comic without mutants)" title="Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You (Chon discusses the Phoenix comic without mutants)" style="float:left;" />As I was walking through Chinatown last weekend, admiring the endless tanks filled with multicolored koi (which is my new passion of the moment), I noticed something very odd. The little Asian kids were mostly… [more]

Do SexBots Dream of Electric Skeet? (Chon’s going to have apologize to his mommy after this one)

Jeff Chon — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:32:28 +0000

Remember when I said superhero comics shouldn’t lose their sense of wonder, because bad things happen? Well, um… yeah. Anyway, as you now know, Sue Dibny was brutally raped and murdered in a cheap shock… [more]

Call Samus Davis, Jr. He’ll vouch for me! (Your Humble Servant endorses The Cartoon History of the Universe)

Jeff Chon — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:27:45 +0000

The Cartoon History of the Universe)" title="Call Samus Davis, Jr. He’ll vouch for me! (Your Humble Servant endorses The Cartoon History of the Universe)" style="float:left;" />Comics made me a smarter person. Not necessarily bragging here; it’s not as if I’d just said, “comics made me the smartest person in the world” (because my brain’s staggering capacity for intellectual growth at… [more]

I Shot the Devil (Chon’s laziness works out in everyone’s favor — and heals a broken nation)

Jeff Chon — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:22:36 +0000

Ronald Reagan died last Saturday, and I pretty much swore I’d save this section of what all the cool kids are calling “The Arb” for self-indulgent goofball antics and stay away from the topical stuff,… [more]

And the Senses Being Dulled are Mine (Let’s regain our sense of fun with The Plastic Man Archives, Volume 1)

Jeff Chon — Fri, 28 May 2004 12:15:32 +0000

The Plastic Man Archives, Volume 1)" title="And the Senses Being Dulled are Mine (Let’s regain our sense of fun with The Plastic Man Archives, Volume 1)" style="float:left;" />Here’s the problem with superhero comics: They’re inherently stupid. But here’s the great thing about superhero comics: They’re inherently stupid. Yep. Superhero comics are stupid. Most of the people who disagree with this statement miss… [more]

Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You (He self-indulgently rambles once again and then finally talks about Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)

Jeff Chon — Thu, 13 May 2004 02:07:01 +0000

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)" title="Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You (He self-indulgently rambles once again and then finally talks about Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)" style="float:left;" />In the words of Frederick Schodt: Manga! Manga! We all love manga. It’s replaced ice cream as that thing we all scream for. It’s just fun to say. Come on and say it with me:… [more]

In Which Doris Has Had Her Oats for a Bit (and Summer Blonde is Discussed)

Jeff Chon — Sat, 01 May 2004 02:03:31 +0000

Summer Blonde is Discussed)" title="In Which Doris Has Had Her Oats for a Bit (and Summer Blonde is Discussed)" style="float:left;" />As I was familiarizing myself with my new surroundings here at Sequart.com, one of the things I’ve noticed was that, like with the rest of the internet, save a few exceptions, a lot of action… [more]

Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy Sir (It is Time to Talk about The Interman)

Jeff Chon — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:58:24 +0000

The Interman)" title="Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy Sir (It is Time to Talk about The Interman)" style="float:left;" />Hello. I’m Jeff Chon and I’m your new arbiter of good taste. Introductions are horribly self-indulgent and self-indulgence is something I save for poetry slams and double live albums. So if you want to know… [more]