Men Without Tights

After gathering several reviews of Concrete, I’m going to inflict one on you every few days.

Here’s one from Slate.  Appended to a piece about the launch of the TV show Heroes, they had  writer Dan Kois (who has a blog here, incidentally) survey off-genre comics, (“Men WithoutTights”) ending with two pages about Concrete.

He ends with this:

Though it sounds simple-minded to praise the moral authority of a comic-book character, Chadwick has imbued Concrete with such depth that he seems more like a real person—a complex, conflicted man, with real-world opinions—than any caped crusader out there. Heroes may be the more purely entertaining piece of Pop art, but Concrete—like its massive boulder of a hero—will endure.

From your lips to the God of Pop Culture’s Ears, Dan Kois!

I gotta get a head of steam up on Stars over Sand, now.

Comments

[walker]

welcome back paul,

did u get the one from "attempts"?

(not sure whether you recieved my email or not.....)