Discourse Chronicle

NRAMA: I couldn’t help but notice – Superman #226 is the “last issue of that numbering?” DD: Right. NRAMA: You want to explain? DD: I turn this question back to the fans, because I’m not really sure what I’m canceling. We’re going from three Superman books to two: Superman and Action Comics. As of March, […]

category: Bibliography, Comics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics    

What appears to be the final Alan Moore/Kevin O’Neil League of Extraordinary Gentlemen project to come from Wildstorm, The Black Dossier will be a hardcover which will include many formats, including a 3D segment. […] Absolute Sandman starts in 2006; there was no announcement of price or extras yet, but DC will be recoloring the […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture    

The most jarring is when an artist can’t or won’t alter the drawing to fit their style. I was looking through an Alan Kupperberg issue of “Marvel Two-In-One” and there was one shot, which had been clearly copies from a Gil Kane drawing and it couldn’t have been more obvious that he hadn’t come up […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics    

The Boondocks are the misadventures of two African American brothers who relocated from the city to the suburbs with their grandfather. Through their socially conscious perspectives, the siblings discuss the problems plaguing our society today. McGruder has managed to criticize every scope of American culture from the hypocrisy of the government and the Bush administration […]

category: Comics, Humor, Politics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Television    

TiVoToGo will allow users of home-network-connected TiVo boxes to transfer the shows to their computers and then synch the video to the PSP or iPod automatically. While on the PC, the system uses the Media Player software from Microsoft, making it another potential winner in the deal, analysts said, though on a more modest scale […]

category: Popular Culture, Technology, Television    

Sony said last week it would let consumers exchange compact discs encoded with the software for new versions of the same titles without the software. The company promised to recall the affected CDs from retailers’ shelves, but the Texas suit claims the attorney general’s investigators were able to purchase numerous titles at Austin retail stores […]

category: Popular Culture, Technology    

Graphic novels seem to be everywhere. At USC and UCLA, students (and some professors) arrive at class with Japanese manga novels tucked in their backpacks. In Silver Lake, the coffeehouse crowd mixes its espresso with comics of hipster ennui by artists such as Dan Clowes and Adrian Tomine. At Hollywood meetings, graphic novels are handed […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture    

Readers now, DiDio said, “are more savvy, and they’re looking for more complexity and more depth for them to be following the stories on a monthly basis.” A crucial phase of the campaign started recently with the release of “Infinite Crisis,” the first of a seven-part monthly series that will bring together all the story […]

category: Comics, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics    

The DRM will enable users to rip the CD once to a computer in WMA format and transfer it to a player, make three full CD copies, or copy single tracks up to seven times. EMI and Macrovision have been asked to clarify whether the CDs will play or rip on Macs, we are awaiting […]

category: Popular Culture, Technology    

Sources reveal that EMI Music along with Warner Music Group and Sony BMG, has been pushing Jobs to shift to a tiered pricing structure, wherein less popular songs will be discounted and in-demand songs will sell for more than a dollar. [Normally I would not blog on Tuesdays or Thursdays, but this story is one […]

category: Popular Culture, Technology