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Review: Crusin’ Hits of the 60’s

Review: Crusin’ Hits of the 60’s
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Crusin’ Hits of the 60’s MVD Visual Street 06.07 I guess I’ve always known that minor pop stars from the 60s were active well into the 1980s, but I don’t think that point really hit home until I saw video proof. Recorded live at the Rock n’ Roll Palace in Orlando, Florida, this multi-star concert

Review: God of War

Review: God of War
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God of War SCEE Street: 03.01.06 Action Action Action The word epic gets abused quite a bit these days. However when I say that God of War is an epic game I believe the true meaning of the word is undiluted in this use. God of War (GoW) goes big from beginning to end without

Review: Resident Evil 4

Review: Resident Evil 4
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Resident Evil 4 Capcom Street: 10.25.2005 Action/Adventure Some nit-pickers will be quick to point out that Resident Evil 4 is not a PS2 title but a port from the Game Cube console. Well, I included it anyways and there’s not much you can do about it. With a game this solid, who really cares where

Review: Grand Theft Auto Series

Review: Grand Theft Auto Series
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Grand Theft Auto Series RockStar Games Action/Adventure I couldn’t pick just one of these so I’m going to touch upon the last three major console installments of this series, Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas. What can I say about GTA III that hasn’t been said a thousand times already? Open ended game play,

Review: Things Just Get Away From You

Review: Things Just Get Away From You
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Things Just Get Away From You Walt Holcombe Fantagraphics Books Street: 06.15 In Things Just Get Away From You, Holcombe expresses his exotic stories in a simple and direct manner filling each panel with a visual style that is fluid and exaggerated. Like a dream, it equally draws from his time as an animator as

Review: King-Cat Classix

Review: King-Cat Classix
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King-Cat Classix John Porcellino Drawn & Quarterly Street: 05.01 King-Cat Classix is John Porcellino’s memoirs as told in REAL-TIME (even though you are reading past recollections, he turns moments into instants). Caught somewhere between biography and journal (a la American Elf), King-Cat Classix is something like this with wirey panel drawings and an honesty you

Review: The Story of Cruel & Unusual

Review: The Story of Cruel & Unusual
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The Story of Cruel & Unusual Colin Dayan Boston Review/MIT Press Street: 04.30 The story of the eighth amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment and is taken from the English Bill of Rights. While seemingly straightforward in its lay representation (not excessive punishment in light of the crime), Colin Dayan in her concise, erudite and

The Genius of Billy Childish: with thee Headcoats & thee Milkshakes

The Genius of Billy Childish: with thee Headcoats & thee...
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The Genius of Billy Childish: with thee Headcoats & thee Milkshakes Cherry Red Films Street: 2004 This concert video chronicles shows from two separate Billy Childish bands that were recorded nine years apart. The first section is an April ’84 performance by thee Milkshakes at the Nothing But Trash festival in Nottingham, England. The second

Review: The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward

Review: The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward
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The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward Alex Chun Fantagraphic Books Street: 08.15 The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward captures Ward’s most impressive pinup girls of the 1950s. The book includes a great biography of Ward as well as high-quality images of the babes that made him famous. Ward started his professional cartoonist career at the

Review: Chance in Hell

Review: Chance in Hell
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Chance in Hell Gilbert Hernandez Fantagraphics Books Street: 08.01 Gilbert Hernandez is a crafty son of a bitch. He weaves a story that is as poignant as it is troubling and tense. Chance in Hell tells the story of Empress, an orphan who is raised in what can only be described as a post-apocalyptic no-man’s