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		<title>IDW adds a second chapter to its second draft of history</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/06/23/review-barack-obama-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IDW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Mariotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Morgan]]></category>

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Barack Obama #1: Road to the White House
By Jeff Mariotte and Tom Morgan
IDW — saddle-stitched, $3.99



BEFORE PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA’S CAMEO ROLE IN Amazing Spider-Man and subsequent appearances as president in a host of other tasteless comics, IDW saw in the higher-than-usual interest in the 2008 election a chance to expand sales outside the direct market. IDW’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=923&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comics, Journalism, and Ethics</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/06/22/comics-journalism-and-ethics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comics Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rich Johnston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerie D'Orazio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, Valerie D’Orazio recently asked the question:
“Do you think the comic book industry, and its principal players, should be subject to the sort of public scrutiny and (at times) gossip that others in the entertainment field are subject to?”
Today, I read my esteemed coworker, Rachel Edidin’s, response. I think she’s right on about a lot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=933&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Lieber and Sara Ryan&#8217;s house burgled</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/06/19/steve-lieber-and-sara-ryans-house-burgled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Lieber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Underground]]></category>

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INCREDIBLY TALENTED AND ALL-AROUND NICE COUPLE Steve Lieber and Sara Ryan had their house broken into this week. Lieber blogged about it at he and Jeff Parker&#8217;s new promotional website:
They stole our laptops, so we have no computers at home anymore, and we’ve got several days ahead of us of running around dealing with police, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=900&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection: Relaunch as sequel and reboot</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/06/09/review-resurrection-vol2-no1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oni Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Greenwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Guggenheim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></category>

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Resurrection vol. 2 #1
By Marc Guggenheim and Justin Greenwood
Oni Press — saddle-stitched, $3.99



I DON&#8217;T USUALLY REVIEW individual chapters of larger stories, as I prefer to stick to collections or at least full runs, but I enjoyed the recent Resurrection: Insurgent Edition paperback and Free Comic Book Day issue enough that this week’s new #1 had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=878&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>View From the Bay Area: Isotope and Comics Relief</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/05/27/view-from-the-bay-area-isotope-and-comics-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 05:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wright Stuff]]></category>

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The storefront of Comic Relief, on Berkeley&#8217;s Shattuck Avenue.
I’VE JUST RETURNED FROM A short vacation in Berkeley and San Francisco, and while I was there, I did a mini-tour of some of the area’s several famous comics stores. I only made it to two, but they were impressive enough that it seemed worth writing a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=804&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstream Media: &#8220;Comics is easy!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/04/26/msm-says-comics-is-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NEW PET PEEVE:




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It&#8217;s not exactly news that when covering comics mainstream media and literary outlets often focus on writers to the exclusion of artists. Articles about DC/Vertigo&#8217;s line of original graphic novels written by well-known novelists, like Incognegro (written by Mat Johnson and illustrated by Warren Pleece) and The Alcoholic (written by Jonathan Ames and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=769&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once Again, Stumptown</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/04/20/once-again-stumptown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stumptown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[View From Portland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE WRIGHT OPINION HAS NEVER HIDDEN its monomaniacally pro-Portland bias, and I don&#8217;t really expect that to change anytime soon.
So, then:

The entrance to the DoubleTree.
After doing the Emerald City Con in Seattle two weeks ago, this weekend reminded me that Stumptown is still a relatively cozy show, more or less by design. I&#8217;ve always taken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=719&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wright Opinion: Strong enough for a man, made for a woman.</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/04/06/wright-opinion-strong-enough-for-a-man-made-for-a-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wright Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[





I CONFESS that I remain regretfully behind in posting to this blog.
However, I have managed to contribute an article to the online women&#8217;s comics magazine Sequential Tart&#8217;s &#8220;Redirected Male&#8221; column, about Jon B. Cooke&#8217;s dialectic of &#8220;Humanism vs. Materialism&#8221; in comics journalism, and how it played out in Tim Leong and Laura Hudson&#8217;s sadly defunct [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=668&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Comics Month again! (A drunken dispatch from Portland)</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/04/03/its-comics-month-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paul Hornschemeier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[View From Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Mack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dylan Meconis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erika Moen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IT&#8217;S HAPPENED AGAIN!
Once again, representatives of Portland&#8217;s Stumptown Comics Fest stormed City Hall (where apparently security has not been improved) last month, demanding that Mayor Sam Adams declare April &#8220;Comics Month,&#8221; as his predecessor did last year. They came brandishing Hulk Hands, and, his administration rocked by a sex scandal earlier this year, Mayor Adams [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=673&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wright Opinion Live</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2009/02/05/wright-opinion-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SO, IT&#8217;S BEEN HARD TO GET BACK INTO THE HABIT OF THIS. I have a couple books in a stack to review, and I will get to them soon, but it hasn&#8217;t happened yet.
In the meantime, I&#8217;ll be on the Erika Moen Show next Tuesday, talking comics—probably mostly about Dark Horse, but hopefully also comics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrightopinion.com&blog=1448029&post=626&subd=thewrightopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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