Gerard Jones
Birth date: July 10, 1957
Gerard Jones's Books
It actually works out better for me to read two at a time. At least for these first three sets of two, each book starts and finishes an arc, starts a second arc that is finished in the second book, and then one final arc which finishes up by the end of the second volume. It did get a bit long so b...
Moves the overarching story along in a huge way, first by exposing InuYasha's weakness (he turns into a human at the new moon) and then by further exploring his connection with Kikyo and then bringing her back from the dead.
This has the feeling of a vanity publication - someone who really freaked out about the privacy issues of social networking and wants to spread "the word" to the teen masses. Hey, it's a modern day Chick Tract! The story has some cute aspects, but the graphic illustrations are pretty bad. Horrendous...
Jones' book is an opinionated insider's history of superhero comics. Careers in comics rarely get second acts and aging creators tend to look on their successors with bitterness and disgust, while looking back on their own predecessors with nostalgia and hero-worship. Jones unloads on the Vertigo ...
Enjoyable read. I'd recommend this one.
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