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by Tarique Ejaz "Sometimes some things can't be saved. You need to know what is worth saving and what is not." 
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by Tarique Ejaz "Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a propaganda-based-superimposition-of-patriotic-sentiments? Or is it just an alien in an alien land among less alien beings?"  by Rick Mazumdar  It's been a while since I've written anything, and honestly enough, I hadn't been going through a lot of comics or TV shows or even movies, because the 21st Century asks of us things we sometimes cannot provide. However, over the last few weeks, my schedule cleared up a bit and I had stumbled upon this great Graphic Novel authored by Guy Delisle, a Canadian born writer/cartoonist and relatively fresh new face in the genre of political/memoir graphic novels, a genre well established by the likes of Spiegelman, Satrapi and Sacco among others. Now I don't usually cover political/semi-political pieces, one reason being that I'm not very well versed in the genre, and the other being that I follow specific parts of National and International Politics and diplomacy, so in the off chance that I sound like a pretentious fuckboi, I would ask you, the readers, to forgive me. Though in all honesty, I have studied a quite a bit about Central Asian Politics over the years through documentaries, essays and one "Waltz with Bashir" but there are some parts of the politics in Jerusalem which I still have difficulty in comprehending because of the complexity of the situation there. by Radhikaa Sharma I picked up Persepolis on a total whim, knowing (mostly from its name) that its set in Iran, and its author is that lady in the web-wide picture talking about nationalism (you know the one).  So imagine my surprise when this book about some of the bloodiest and most devastating times that Iran has been through turns out to be a graphic novel. Don’t get me wrong- though I am, by no means, a comic book guru, I have read sufficiently in the medium to know how efficient it is as a means of reaching its readers and conveying the profoundest of emotions as well as any other form of literature. However, I’ve gotten used to the idea of suffering IRL depicted in words angled to twist your heart just so, and I didn’t see this book doing that. What intrigued me was how an impersonal tragedy of fantastic proportions and real losses and real people (autobiographical, no less) would look in black and white comic panels. I had forgotten something very elementary - the window we choose is the view we get. by Tarique Ejaz and Luv Mehta  Tarique: Captain America: Civil War is the third installment in the Captain America franchise and one of the most awaited superhero-comicbook movie of 2016. So let’s start with the simplest of things. How did you like the movie? Luv: Captain America is my favourite hero from the MCU, essentially being the modern Superman of the movie landscape. I’ve made my love for the first movie known before, and the second movie is the only instalment in the series to feel completely unpredictable. So, with my heightened expectations, I’m happy to say, the answer is yes! by Tarique Ejaz  “In hindsight, there were signs, omens of the terrible things to come. The first one came with the rains. With the early snows blocking its mouth, the rains flooded the Gotham River, actually reversing its flow for three full days. The second sign came soon after. A lion at the Gotham Zoo gave birth to a deformed cub, a cub with two heads. We should have seen it coming....” by Tarique Ejaz and Luv Mehta  DEADPOOL REVIEW (WAIT, HOW IS THIS A REVIEW IF THERE ARE NO PROPER SCORES?) DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Luv Mehta as That Overcritical Tool Tarique Ejaz as That Overexcited Fanboy by Tarique Ejaz  “The World Breaker is here to smash you!” The World War Hulk storyline is a 5-issue colossal crossover event of the Marvel Universe which included the entire Universe trapped in the midst of Hulk’s rage-fueled war against the Illuminati (The secret group of Doctor Strange, Black Bolt, Iron Man, Namor - The Submariner, Mister Fantastic and Professor Xavier) in general. The event follows the happenings of the Planet Hulk storyline which was equally massive and given Marvel’s tendency to throw in almost all the heroes, anti-heroes and villains into a single mix at every other happening, this was lined up to be no different. Now, the flavor of this story arc can only be enjoyed if you are able to read all the tie-ins to the event as the main series will only give you the overview of the primary collision while the subplots are explained with much more clarity in the tie-in title issues.
Before we delve into World War Hulk, a title which was given to the saga in the pages of Marvel Comics by once esteemed reporter of the Daily Bugle Ben Urich, let us just run through the events of the Planet Hulk storyline leading to the aforementioned event through these Mini Marvel strips. |
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