Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and photography. We’ve decided to change that up with a feature that we’re calling Anatomy of a Page, in which we explore pages and […]
Archives for August 2015
Ballin’ on Ballers: From the Window…
We asked resident Entourage apologists Rafael Gaitan and Mark Stack to team up and discuss each week of the spiritual Entourage sequel Ballers. After taking a bye after the previous installment of Ballin’ on Ballers hack shocking cliffhanger, Mark Raffalo returns to tackle the penultimate and final episodes of the show’s first season as disappointment hangs in the air. Raf: […]
Yellowed Pages: The Residents’ Freak Show
Sometimes we just want to talk about old comics we found in bargain bins or antique stores or in our garages. Is that so wrong? In this installment, we look back at Dark Horse’s 1992 collaboration with The Residents, Freak Show, which brought together the world’s most mysterious band and an awe inspiring line-up of […]
Rightful Heir: Prince is a Royally Charming and Stylish Debut
The line between childhood and adulthood has always been an abrupt and downright confusing time. Sexual awakenings, political ideals, unrequited crushes and philosophical conundrums all fill the weird precipice between the two worlds. Fears of turning out like our parents and an uncertainty of where or how we’ll go anywhere in life are definitive of […]
Resurrection Blues: Welcome Back Breathes New Life Into the Heroic Epic
Seems like we get flooded with apocalyptic headlines on a daily basis these days. Lately it’s centered around climate changing happening faster and harsher than previously anticipated. Scientists say that heat and ice cycles are a natural part of the development of our planet but that we’re amplifying them, locking ourselves into our own loop […]
ymmv: 4 is the magic number
I am a junkie. I love the comic making process, probably because I know enough about it to get me high on my own fumes, and to saddle me into my high horse on Twitter, and most likely to awkwardly kill myself, but not yet enough to really give me the Vertigo visions and so […]
Anatomy of a Page: Judge Dredd “Enceladus: Old Life” Pt. 5, Page 5 by Henry Flint and Rob Williams
Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and photography. We’ve decided to change that up with a feature that we’re calling Anatomy of a Page, in which we explore pages and […]
Ballin’ on Ballers: Agree to Disagree is for Quitters
We asked resident Entourage apologists Rafael Gaitan and Mark Stack to team up and discuss each week of the spiritual Entourage sequel Ballers. This week sees strife break out between Raf and Mark as they come into disagreement over the show’s handling of Charles Greene after some peaceful discussion of the show’s failings with Spencer and success with […]
Out of Six Million Sperms Cells: Scott Ryser of The Units on Synthpunk’s Past, Present and Future
Earlier this year, in our Fossil Records column, I covered The Units’ seminal but unfortunately more or less impossible to find Digital Stimulation, trumpeting it as not only a founding document of synthpunk but also a legendary album long overdue for a new release. Not long after, I got my wish, as Futurismo Inc. reissued the […]
Anatomy of a Page: Hiroya Oku’s Inuyashiki Chapter 25
Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and photography. We’ve decided to change that up with a feature that we’re calling Anatomy of a Page, in which we explore pages and […]