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Because the world is always a mess, we’ve decided to look back at dystopic works and examine why they remain so potent no matter how many years have passed between their creation and now. This week’s installment is on Daniel Minahan’s Series 7: The Contenders and its warning that the media’s commodification of white rage and […]
About Nick Hanover
About Nick Hanover
Nick Hanover got his degree from Disneyland, but he’s the last of the secret agents and he’s your man. Which is to say you can find his particular style of espionage here at Loser City as well as Ovrld, where he contributes music reviews and writes a column on undiscovered Austin bands. You can also flip through his archives at Comics Bulletin, which he is formerly the Co-Managing Editor of, and Spectrum Culture, where he contributed literally hundreds of pieces for a few years. Or if you feel particularly adventurous, you can always witness his odd .gif battles with Dylan Garsee on twitter: @Nick_Hanover
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The Dicks’ Kill From the Heart has Only Gotten More Important with Age
Right after Trump won the election, one of the most common and obnoxious statements you’d encounter amongst liberals was some variation on “Well, at least the art will be amazing for the next four years!” I may not have been making art in the ’80s under Reagan but I imagine to the artists who lived […]
Comics (Critics) Should Be Decent: Yet Another Discourse About Discourse
Last year, Kim O’Connor and I teamed up to dig into some of the reasons why a lot of people in comics get so burned out on the medium. We called it a “discourse about discourse” and now here we are again, still feeling burned out and having yet another discourse about discourse, except this […]
Misfit II is Martis Unruly at His Clearest and Most Ferocious
Here in the final stretches of the second decade of the 21st century, an overwhelming murkiness is taking over art. Blockbuster films and tv shows are coated in shadows and sickly color palettes, the comics frequently inspiring them are doubling down on that and in music apocalyptic trap rules the roost. You’d think the aptly […]
Fluid Exchange: I Roved Out by Rupert Everton
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 […]
Comics Needs to Call Out Harassment by Pros as Often it Does with Fans
Spend enough time looking at comics harassment controversies and you’ll quickly notice what all of the ones that get attention from pros in comics have in common: fandom. As this week’s Marvel Milkshake incident proved, comics pros are usually willing to speak up about harassment when it’s coming from fans irate over things as benign […]
Respect My Authority: 20 Years In, South Park isn’t Satire, it’s the Status Quo
Few viewers who tuned in to South Park when it debuted in 1997 would have predicted the show would still be going strong twenty years later. Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s crude and belligerent cartoon has always been purposefully lo-fi and low brow, designed for immediacy and flexibility rather than staying power. And yet it not […]
Running Blood is a Thrilling Mash-Up of Vampires and Grand Theft Auto
Like most grindhouse masterpieces, Jonathan Brandon Sawyer and Christopher Sebela’s Running Blood is at its best when it’s mobile, chasing a giddy, concise concept to its bloody conclusion. In this case, that concept is a vampire getaway driver, given one last job by a mysterious employer who needs a package delivered to Tijuana in exactly four […]
Europe Endless: Spooks Vol 1: The Fall of Babylon by Rossi, Dorison and Nury
Europe Endless is a column examining European comics that are now available in North America, ranging from overlooked oddities to classics and everything in between. America’s tycoon era is ripe for creative pillaging. The Wild West might get all the glory as a fertile ground for outsized characters and legends, but America’s rise as a […]
Why Does Image’s Vision of the Future of Comics Mostly Center Around Exploiting Queer Voices?
For the past month or so, the key buzzword in comics has been “conversation.” At some point, the problem children of comics realized that shock was a loaded term and they needed to find a new way to absolve themselves of blame and guilt any time a questionable work of theirs received intense scrutiny and […]
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