Comics Syllabus

Classic Batman origin re-telling by Len Wein and Jim Aparo, a rundown of recent reads from DC, Valiant, Boom, and Kelly Bastow, and how Paul learns to talk about comics art! Images are at http://wp.me/p42KN3-Gxn starting 9am EST on 10/3/2017 On this week's Comics Syllabus podcast, an ultra-long-solo-droning of Paul talking comics! First, in a General Ed segment change-up, we start with the "Discussion Section," (at 4:54 ) where Paul tackles listener Mike McQuillian's question of how he learns to talk about comics art! He makes reference to a Multiversity piece by Mike Romeo: http://www.multiversitycomics.com/longform/a-guide-to-discussing-comic-art/ as well as to various sources where this amateur critic has learned to be a fraction less amateurish in discussing art in comics. Then, (at 28:55 ) in a new segment called "The Pull Call," Paul runs through comics he's read recently and discusses how the visual work in each contributes to their thematic and narrative potency. He tackles the foll