By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 2/11/2013
TweetIntroducing the best crime-fighting comic on the shelves right now: The Spider. No, not that Spider, but this one from Dynamite Entertainment that you quite possibly haven’t been reading. But fear not! The first trade collection has just been released, making this a handy time to catch up and enjoy the first 6 issues in one delicious [...]
By: Elaine Anderson,
on 10/1/2007
This is Banned Book Week in the U.S.
Novel Journey presents an interview with Rebecca Zeidel, Program Director for American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. The web log is part of Christian Women Online.
Zeidel responds to the following questions:
What is Banned Book Week?
What is the goal of Banned Book Week?
What percentage of books are challenged or banned because of moral content? Political content? Racial content? Violence? Other (please explain)?
Who suffers the most if a book is challenged?
How can novelists support Banned Book Week?
Which states or regions are more likely to jump on the banning band wagon?
Zeidel identifies the Howell, MI banning of 5 titles in a response to this question: What is the most appalling situation you've seen or heard of regarding a challenged book?
In February, five books were challenged in Howell, MI for sexual themes and profanity: Black Boy by Richard Wright, Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell. The books were challenged in Howell High School in by members of the Livingston Organization for Values in Education (LOVE) with assistance from the Michigan chapter of the American Family Association.
The American Family Association represents and stands for traditional family values, focusing primarily on the influence of television and other media – including pornography – on our society.
Seconded. Dynamite’s Spider has been a great read from the get go. Suspensful, pulpy plot plus fantastic visuals by Colton Worley. The John Cassaday covers don’t hurt either.
I buy it.
Although unless ‘Masks’ is a tale told out of continuity, the Spider is now part of a larger universe.
Thanks for the kind words. Always glad to hear when people like The Spider.
I don’t want to short David Liss, ’cause he certainly carried his creative weight, but let me echo that Worley is tremendous here. This may be the best visual representation any pulp hero has ever gotten in comics.
Mike
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Jeremy – the John Cassaday covers are excellent! I was remiss in not mentioning them as well.
saipaman – I confess I haven’t read Masks (though it’s on my list) but so far at least none of The Spider books have featured other characters or seen plots that go off page and into another book… I had forgotten that the character is also in Masks though!
Colton – glad you like! I’ve been raving about this comic to everyone, and I’m in complete agreement with Mike there.
An absolutely great read, and Worley definitely killed it on the art.
I picked up the first two issues -but then missed a few. I liked the book alot (great ending to the first issue) but somehow missed subsequent issues. Thanks for the review- I’m gonna get the trade.
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