Luca Casalanguida - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:27:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Luca Casalanguida - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 We Become the First People to Read Comixology Original Books (We Think) https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/02/we-become-the-first-people-to-read-comixology-original-books-we-think/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44075 In an all-too-plausible future, the nation is split. The old country is dead. This is New America #1, written by Curt Pires, drawn by Luca Casalanguida, colored by Mark Dale, lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and published by Comixology Originals. It’s a ballad of love, murder, sketchy flyboys and at least one creepy robot in Barnstormers...

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]]> 44075 Scouting While Female: Scout’s Honor and My Time in the BSA https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/18/scouting-while-female-scouts-honor-and-my-time-in-the-bsa/ Tue, 18 May 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=27604 It’s 1998. It’s sweltering in the summer sun on the archery range. Pre-teen archers pull their arms back, ready to lose their arrows at the styrofoam targets across the overgrown grass at Camp Drake. I am 11 years old.  But I am not sweltering in the few weeks left of August before school starts. I’m...

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]]> 27604 Scout’s Honor #1 Will Make You Wish You Didn’t Quit after Webelos https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/06/scouts-honor-1-will-make-you-wish-you-didnt-quit-after-webelos/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=12119 I quit a lot of things when I was a lad. Soccer. Wrestling. Tee ball. If it wasn’t a video game or a cartoon, it couldn’t hold my interest. I don’t say that with any sort of pride; it’s simply a fact about myself I’ve accepted. My parents tried, and adult me appreciates that. One...

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]]> 12119 That Which Devours: Exploring Image Comics’ Lost Soldiers https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/05/that-which-devours-exploring-image-comics-lost-soldiers/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=11903 I’ve never been drawn to war stories. There’s an impenetrable incomprehensibility that I’m not often able to move past. It’s like our inability to comprehend large numbers but applied to extreme emotional settings of violence and trauma. When faced with such powerful, loud, visceral or violent imagery, I often just … dissociate. Many creators, especially...

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