Glen Weldon

A Supersized Slice Of Life In 'Telegraph Avenue'

Glen Weldon — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:03:00 +0000

Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue is an agreeable if ultimately frustrating shaggy-dog tale of a novel that slips its leash and lopes its discursive and distinctly unhurried way through the unkempt backyards of its characters' lives.

Old Memories, New Depth In 'The Underwater Welder'

Glen Weldon — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:03:00 +0000

In a memorable (and much-parodied) 1983 television ad for a brand of instant, decaffeinated coffee, a gravel-voiced announcer asked: "What kind of people drink Sanka? People like Joe Zebrosky, underwater welder." The ad, one of a series featuring manly men in a variety of high-stakes professions, featured the aforementioned Zebrosky intoning: "Too much caffeine makes me tense. And down here, I can't afford that."

Neither can Jack Joseph, the lead character of Jeff Lemire's wise and moving new graphic novel, The Underwater Welder.

Jaime Hernandez Bridges The Indie-Vs.-Cape Divide

Glen Weldon — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:01:00 +0000

If only Nixon could go to China, only indie-comics master Jaime Hernandez could produce God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls, the brightest, purest, most quintessentially superheroic superhero yarn in years.

The exploits of garishly clad do-gooding mesomorphs have dominated American comics for three-fourths of a century.