Graphic Update: My Year With Preacher

No one ever says, "I want to read a graphic novel series AND have one of the worst years of their lives." But here we are.

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Thor Is The New Crocodile Dundee Minus The Knife

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Personal Note: It's Been That Kind Of Week

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I try and keep the Brog PG-13, but sometimes a healthy f**k is good to squeeze out of the body every now and again. Don't worry, it won't become commonplace, but boy has the gaming world shown it's ugly side this week [again]. I probably haven't contributed to the healing process [pay no attention to my twitter feed]. I'd like to think at least writing this stuff down is a good piece of therapy. It's just unfortunate that when I do bitch about the pitfalls of this culture I'm met with "you know this is par for the course, right?"

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The Brog's Worst Of The Worst List Of 2010

Read of my experiences and tell my story.This list has been a long time coming so let's not delay. What you will find below is a short list of all-things-awful that I've subjected myself to within the last year. Read below and know that every ounce of these individual medias consistently haunt my dreams.

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The Brog's Best Comic/Graphic Novel Of 2010: Locke & Key -- Crown Of Shadows

Because its been a while since a book captured both child-like curiosity and mature terror.

Truth time. I've been meaning to review several graphic novels and trades since The Brog's inception. Let this year-end award to Joe Hill's Locke & Key: Crown Of Shadows be a step in a brighter direction for trades and collection coverage on this site. The funny thing about this year's collection of comics I read was that all left varying magnitudes of impressions. However, the third book in the Locke & Key series really, took me. It's rare that I'm taken by anything.

Asterios Polyp was an adventure against what conventions I think of as far as form and function of comics go. The sixth book of Walking Dead is great, but it feels as if I'm reading the series almost out of habit as opposed to deeply engrossing entertainment. Brubaker's Criminal and William's Batwoman struck me as something that will make long-term impressions, but nothing immediately gasp-worthy. Hill's Crown of Shadows is my least liked of the three books in the series. It left me frustrated, I've been wanting the series to move faster than it has been. Gone are the horror-filled, bloody massacres found in the first book. The child-like horror found in book two seemed to be venturing into young-adult angst. Yet, the book punctuates, with every page, "You need to keep reading."

Honorable Mention: Walking Dead Book 6, Criminal: The Sinners, Asterios Polyp, Batwoman: Elegy