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 […]
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 […]
Visual Domination: Angelina Jolie’s Sexual Power in Mr and Mrs. Smith
“A woman must continually watch herself. She is always continually accompanied by her own image of herself.” This is because, as John Berger puts it in Ways of Seeing, “to be born a woman has to be born…into the keeping of men.” In male-dominated Hollywood, women’s careers are entirely in the keeping in men. Hollywood, […]
What Conversation is Image Actually Willing to Listen to with Divided States of Hysteria?
Having even a slight interest in comics while being active on Twitter means witnessing more or less nonstop conversation about the industry, its works and the creators living within it. Comics is in a state of constant discourse, partially because even as its impact on culture grows, its world remains unbelievably small, making it easy […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Constantine
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. Today Nick Hanover makes the case that Constantine is the best film DC has made this century, regardless of how hard they now try to pretend […]
B L A C K I E’s Remains Channels the Collective Rage and Pain of the Oppressed
Like a lot of Americans, I’ve spent most of 2017 tense and nervous and unable to relax, wired on the buzz of anxiety that comes from every cursory glance at the headlines. I feel like the world is ending not as a bang but as a joke and all I can do about it is […]
Garbage Night is an Expressive, Emotionally Rich Post-Apocalyptic Work
Given Hollywood’s propensity for revisiting classic, beloved works and giving them a twist, it’s a little odd to me that no one has rebooted Homeward Bound as a Life After People-style post-apocalyptic work. But that’s okay, because Jen Lee is nicely filling that void with her new work Garbage Night and its predecessor Vacancy. Where Hollywood would likely still […]
Questionable Comics: Becky & Frank and Rachael Stott
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. First up today is Becky & Frank, one of comics’ most charming duos, making their mark in the indie sphere with fun series like Capture Creatures, Tigerbuttah and Tiny Kitten Teeth. Becky is also currently working on […]
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