Name: Bill Sherman
Weblog: oakhaus.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 445
First Published: Friday, August 16, 2002
Last Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Currently listing articles 445-401:
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Music Review: Robert Forster - The Evangelist— The former Go-Between mourns the loss of his onetime band cohort.
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Comic Book Review: Graphic Classics Free Comic Book Day Sampler— A solid sampling of graphic literary adaptations gets released for Free Comic Book Day.
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DVD Review: Sam & Max Freelance Police – The Complete Animated Series— The animated adventures of Steve Purcell's gumshoe dog and hyperactive "rabbit thing" partner come barreling into your living room.
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Music Review: Everclear - The Vegas Years— Art and the boys tear through fourteen cover songs in a collection culled from 1994 to today.
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Comic Review: Snaked # 1 - 3 by Clifford Meth & Rufus Dayglo — A deeply cynical horror tale set in the serpentine world of American politics.
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Graphic Novel Review: Innocent: Volume One by Shawn Granger— Shawn Granger’s web comic about a sword-wielding avenging angel receives its first print pb collection.
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Manga Review: Naruto: Volume 28 by Masashi Kishimoto— The popular ninja manga series begins a new storyline, featuring an older, not necessarily wiser, Naruto.
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Music Review: Wednesday Week - What We Had— Noble Rot reissues a criminally under-heard disc of 80’s girl group power-pop.
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Comic Book Review: Angel: After the Fall #1 – 3— A new IDW graphic series provides the "sixth season" of Joss Whedon's fan fave vampire teleseries.
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Comic Review: Warriors Creed #1— A new comics series purports to introduce young readers to Christian concepts of manliness.
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Music Review: B-52s - Funplex— The Athens, Georgia goof-butts release their first new album in sixteen years.
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Music Review: Jason Ringenberg - Best Tracks And Side Tracks: 1979 – 2007 — The alt-country legend releases a two-disc retrospective of solo material.
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Graphic Novel Review: Angel: Spotlight & Auld Lang Syne— Second of a three-part consideration of recent graphic novels devoted to the vampire with a soul.
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Music Review: Fleshtones - Take A Good Look— NYC’s premiere garage band returns with a fresh set of fuzz and frug.
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DVD Review: Da Vinci’s Inquest - Season Two— Acorn’s boxed set for the series’ sophomore season provides a satisfying dose of hard-nosed crime drama.
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Graphic Novel Review: Angel: The Curse & Angel: Old Friends by Jeff Mariotte & David Messina— First of a three-part consideration of recent graphic novels devoted to Joss Whedon's vampire with a soul.
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Music Review: Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool— A classic pop-rock album from the late seventies gets a long-overdue deluxe reissue.
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DVD Review: Blue Murder, Set Two — A new boxed set of a series yet to be broadcast in the U.S. proves a treat for lovers of well-wrought British police dramas.
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Graphic Novel Review - 30 Days of Night: Red Snow by Ben Templesmith— Ben Templesmith’s newest addition to the popular vampire GN series finds blood ‘n’ fangs on the Russian front.
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Music Review: Carlene Carter - Stronger— The country-pop pioneer returns with her first set of original material in over a decade.
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Comic Review: Black Diamond by Larry Young & Jon Proctor— Publisher Larry Young's newest comics mini-series is a zippy tribute to seventies speed cinema.
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Music Review: Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey, Mavericks— CCM reissues a new edition of an unjustly neglected pop-rock gem.
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Music Review: Ed Sanders - Sanders Truckstop and Beer Cans on the Moon— Two early '70s reissues by poet/satirist/once-&-future-Fug Sanders definitely sound of their time.
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Manga Review: Naruto #26 & 27 by Masashi Kishimoto— Viz Media’s Naruto publishing blitz ends with a much-anticipated face-off.
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Music Review: Monster Mike Welch - Just Like It Is— The onetime teen-aged blues prodigy’s latest is a solid set of good ol’ basic electric blues.
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Comics Anthology: Graphic Classics: Mark Twain - edited by Tom Pomplun— An edition of Twain adaptations takes Tom Sawyer to the Middle East and shows the American humorist at his grimmest.
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Comic Book Review: Northlanders #1 by Brian Wood & Davide Gianfelice— A new Vertigo Viking series delivers the violent goods with snap and plenty of visual pulp.
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Music Review: Bush Tetras – Very Very Happy— New York’s pioneering noise funkers return to once more lambaste all the creeps.
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DVD Review: Da Vinci’s Inquest – Season One— The popular Canadian procedural drama gets season DVD box sets from Acorn Media.
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Manga Review: Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation by Yoshiyuki Nishi— A new “Shonen Jump” series focuses on a pair of young ghostbusters.
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DVD Review: Manticore— A "Sci Fi Essentials" tele-movie DVD drops a mythological monster into the middle of the Iraq War.
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Book Review: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain by Scott Adams— The creator of "Dilbert" puts together a hefty helping of comic bloggish musings.
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Comic Review: Tales from the Crypt - "A Murderin' Idol"— A revived version of the infamous horror comics line takes on "Slymon Bowell" and company...
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DVD Review: H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon— From the makers of Re-Animator comes another enjoyably lurid and respectful adaptation of the America horror master.
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Music Review: The Golden Dogs - Big Eye Little Eye— Canada's Golden Dogs blend art school D.I.Y. with a solid appreciation for 70s poppishness.
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Graphic Novel Review: Weirdling by Mike Dubisch— A new graphic novel meshes Lovecraftian horror and militaristic sci-fi – with mind-bending results!
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Music Review: Beatnik Beatch— Alt/punk reissue label Nobel Rot resurrects a long-lost album featuring two of the brains behind '90s pop faves Jellyfish.
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DVD Review: Chandu on the Magic Island— Bela Lugosi gets a rare shot at making with the heroics in this 1934 serial-turned-feature.
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Music Review: Simple Kid - 2— Simp’s sophomore disc is a winning mix of folk-rock and home studio playfulness.
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Music Review: Josie Cotton - Invasion of the B-Girls— The new wave singer returns with a smashing collection of drive-in movie theme songs.
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Graphic Novel Review: 24 - Nightfall by Mark L. Haynes, J.C. Vaughn and Jean Diaz— A new graphic novel attempts to give us the scoop behind Jack Bauer's ill-fated pre-Season One Nightfall mission.
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Graphic Literature Review: The Nightmare Factory - Edited by Heidi MacDonald— Cult horror fiction writer Thomas Ligotti gets adapted into graphic literature format by four simpatico comic book artists.
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TV Review: Torchwood— The Doctor Who spin-off debuts on BBC-America.
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Graphic Novel Review: Graphic Classics: Bram Stoker— A new edition of illustrated adaptations of the horror master’s works gets released just in time for fall.
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Manga Review: Translucent – Volume One by Okamoto Kazuhiro— Dark Horse Manga issues a quirky series about a young girl stricken by bouts of invisibility.
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