Like so many comics lovers, we are a bunch of horny fucks here at Loser City, so we decided to count down the top 11 CBR-exclusive stories we’d bone if they were people. Because that’s normal. Totally normal. We’re not like the other sites out there, but if we have anything in common with them, […]
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 […]
Can Mister Miracle Escape a Flawed Premise Scot-Free?
Content Warning: Any substantial discussion of Mister Miracle will involve the subjects of depression, suicide, and self-harm. Mister Miracle has been available for less than a week and already CBR has positioned it as the second coming to save comics from itself and Tucker Stone has knocked them down a peg or ten; that comics […]
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 […]
The Scream: Remembering Chester Bennington’s Voice and Why It Connected with so Many
When we talk about formative influences in music, it’s usually an artist or band that you patterned yourself after: dressed like they did, plastered your bedroom walls with their posters, decorated every surface -physical and digital- with their lyrics. That all encompassing teenage enthusiasm that’s been an unshakable part of the culture since The Beach […]
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 […]
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