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MONDOcomics #83: December 1, 2010

Posted by Comics On December - 3 - 2010

Adventure Comics #521
Paul Levitz, Jeff Lemire (w), Geraldo Borges, Marlo Alquiza, Mahmud Asrar (a), John Dell (i), Hi-Fi, Pete Pantazis (c). DC Comics.

Well, I had a small week, so I picked up Adventure Comics

I’d actually just decided to drop it after the last issue — the issue before they made it tie-in with, and conclude, the story from Legion of Super-Heroes. They suckered me in with promises of a future Green Lantern.

For the most part we follow a crazy little blue alien as it figures out who is going to be that Lantern — every Legionnaire it runs into it stops, considers, and then flies off to someone else. I was getting anxious that we wouldn’t find out who it was going to be until the next issue, but they finally got around to it. The whole premise of the issue was discovering this one fact — so the least they could do was actually deliver on that promise. Read the rest of this entry »

Review: The Silicone Diaries

Posted by art On December - 1 - 2010

Photo by David Hawe.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents
The Silicone Diaries
Created and performed by Nina Arsenault
Directed by Brendan Healy
Dramaturgy by Judith Rudakoff
November 25 – December 11 @ Buddies in Bad Times

By Jen Handley

“What do you say to God if you die during plastic surgery?” asks Nina Arsenault as she leans back in a white plastic chair. She pauses just a second before finishing the sentence—“that you paid for by jerking off online?” Arsenault, a transgendered writer and performer, opened her remount (see last year’s review here) of The Silicone Diaries last week at Buddies in Bad Times. The play consists mostly of Arsenault talking directly to the audience as she tells the story of her life and transformation.

Nina Arsenault’s beauty characterizes her life so much that it’s impossible to talk about her without describing what she looks like. She is rail thin and stands well over six feet tall in stilettos, with a magnificently curvy torso and honey-blonde hair so huge it looks almost weightless— the only other place I’ve only ever seen her silhouette is animated Disney movies. Read the rest of this entry »

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