They get trotted out every Awards Season but does anyone truly like biopics? When they’re not condensing complicated asshole figures into tidy feel-good entertainment packages, they’re too shallow in their focus, honing in on one “milestone” in lives of titans who went through the same disappointing shit as the rest of us at any number of […]
Archives for December 2014
The End is Extremely Fucking Nigh: Rumble is Apocalyptic Art Done Right
The perennial complaint about the grim and gritty age of comics is that it’s too fucking dour, lacking the warmth and weirdness of the Silver Age, its works nearly always not as mature as they think they are. So let’s give thanks to John Arcudi and James Harren for their work in Rumble, undoubtedly the […]
She Wants to Mambo: Jukebox Mambo is a Lovingly Curated Compilation of a Frequently Forgotten Scene
The overall morbidity of the music industry in the digital age makes it easy to assume no one is buying anything physical anymore, but one of the less talked about “boom” areas in music is the obscure reissue game, where labels like Numero Group and Light in the Attic have built off the precedent set […]
Smashing, Golfing and Inquisiting: 10 Games We Loved in 2014
We’re a bunch of culture geeks here at Loser City, which means we love nothing so much as conformity, lists, and faux definitive rankings of things. With that in mind, this month we’re bringing you our Loser City Best Ofs, lists on lists on lists of our picks for top video games, comics, and everything […]
Products of Their Time: Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Vol. 3 is for True Animation Diehards
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc–the production studio responsible for creating the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts that became such an iconic symbol of American animation and humor–closed its doors in 1963. The proliferation of television over the previous decade put the continued production of animated shorts into a dubious position and, after a Supreme […]
Melancholy in the Age of Shovels: The Bright Sadness of Shovel Knight
In between stages, Shovel Knight, star of Yacht Club Games’ Shovel Knight, sleeps at a lonely camp fire. Sometimes, he dreams. In Shovel Knight’s dreams, his former partner, Shield Knight, is falling from a great height. You, as Shield Knight, are waiting on the ground, standing against stark white surroundings, a blank mindspace. As the […]
Just To Get On Top: Lie’s Consent is a Fearless Work of Feminist Post-Punk
This isn’t too surprising of a theory, but it’s basically a law of nature that when the world is going to shit, music is at its best. Think back to the turbulent ’60s, or the impact the Thatcher Regime had on punk’s first big wave, or the latest assault on women’s rights that has caused […]
Fluid Exchange: Stjepan Sejic’s Sunstone
Since their origin, comics have proven extremely adaptable and with that in mind, it’s no wonder that their history has long been tied up with sex. From the hidden but long established connection to pornography that the Big Two have to Tijuana Bibles to R. Crumb, comics have never been dissociated from sex, yet we […]
Unnatural Transformations: Wolf Moon is a Refreshing New Take on the Werewolf Genre
I’m going to go ahead and confess I went into Cullen Bunn and Jeremy Haun’s new Vertigo series Wolf Moon with a whole fleet of reservations. On the positive front, this is one of the few new pop comics without a mononymic title. But less positive are things like the inexplicable “sexy but creepy naked lady […]
Travels with Myself and Another: Photographs of the Weird Old West and Beyond
Nick Hanover has been on a series of road trips this year, spanning from Texas to South Carolina, and along the way he has taken photos of antique stores, BBQ joints and other odd urban exits. We’ve collected some of them here for your perusal. Folk art in East Austin, TX Vintage shop display on […]