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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877651.Popgun?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Popgun" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1196608040m/877651.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877651.Popgun?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Popgun</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1458337.Erik_Larsen">Erik Larsen</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9958217?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 3 of 5 stars This massive brick was definitely much better made/printed than the DC Archive reprint line (paperback; I hear they went to Hardcover now). The art in this collection of stories was brilliant, though I found myself confused at times over where one person's story ended and the next person's began. This was not helped by the way, despite each story's short length, several stories seemed to change styles halfway through. Mike Allred seemed to be the only person in the entire tome that understood how to properly work the comic short story, with his little ditty about Madman's foray into the world of record buying my favorite, hands down. Most of the works feel unfinished, as if the writer was trying to squeeze an epic into 8 pages, and ended up with a prologue to a much greater story. Most often, I felt as if it was just a lot of mindless violence I wasn't sure I could summon enough emotion to care about.
 
 Still, I think this volume is very much worth its money. Indispensable to artists - It's an excellent showcase of a huge mix of styles, from the very illustratory to the more animated looking styles, pretty much is everything that I think <a href="/search/search?q=Flight+Volume+1&t=title">Flight Volume 1</a> had promised in the early days and simply failed to deliver with consequent volumes. Perhaps the pages were too short for the, in many cases, relatively new or recently established writers/artists to really dig in. But, as a short retinal blast to wet the appetite - fitting for something advertised as a 'mix tapes' of comics - it does what it needs to do, and then some.
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bookshelves: comics, shortstories
status: Read in January, 2008

This massive brick was definitely much better made/printed than the DC Archive reprint line (paperback; I hear they went to Hardcover now). The art in this collection of stories was brilliant, though I found myself confused at times over where one person's story ended and the next person's began. This was not helped by the way, despite each story's short length, several stories seemed to change styles halfway through. Mike Allred seemed to be the only person in the entire tome that understood how to properly work the comic short story, with his little ditty about Madman's foray into the world of record buying my favorite, hands down. Most of the works feel unfinished, as if the writer was trying to squeeze an epic into 8 pages, and ended up with a prologue to a much greater story. Most often, I felt as if it was just a lot of mindless violence I wasn't sure I could summon enough emotion to care about.

Still, I think this volume is very much worth its money. Indispensable to a...more

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