There are a number of things you can argue killed the soul of rock and roll. Perhaps you believe it was the consolidation of the music business in the ’70s, the shift towards technicality over feel with classic rock’s heyday or even the metric shit tons of coke everyone consumed in the ’80s. These are […]
Questionable Comics: Steve Lieber and Chandra Free
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. Up first is Steve Lieber, whose work has been published everywhere from DC to Marvel to Image, where he can currently be seen on The Fix, volume two of which comes out tomorrow, April 12th. What […]
Spencer & Locke Only Succeeds at Revealing the Shallowness of Nostalgianoir
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and no one knows that better than comic fans. atthether it’s through fandom’s own addiction to the increasingly convoluted history of characters from their youth or creators’ obsession with dropping those characters into gritty, surprising scenarios, comics seems incapable of shaking its need for a nostalgic fix. In recent […]
Zac Pennington and Brian Lawlor’s Always and Only the Lonely is a Beautiful Examination of Suffering as Art
“We don’t care to be understood, to understand is to lie.” – Implied Violence mission statement The only real constants to avant-pop act Parenthetical Girls were front man Zac Pennington’s melodramatic, ever-reaching vocals and taboo lyrical fixations. Throughout Parenthical Girls’ career, the band shifted line-ups and aesthetics, utilizing ornate instrumentation at first, then wielding increasingly more electronic […]
Black Cloud #1 is a Promising Political Fantasy Bogged Down by Exposition
When you get down to it, America essentially willed itself into being a global superpower by hyping up and commodifying the collective dream of America. The Industrial Revolution saw rogues and con artists and thieves rebrand themselves as entrepreneurs, who sold their fellow Americans and the world at large on the idea of themselves as […]
Drugs & Wires is a Clever and Flashy Cyberpunk Alt-history
For the most part, I never got the appeal of alt-histories. I had nerdy high school friends who would carry around hefty Harry Turtledove tomes about “the second American civil war” or apocalyptic visions of a Nazi-run America. Given that we’re currently living in what feels like a spin on that latter alt-history, maybe I […]
Questionable Comics: Boy Akkerman and Iain Laurie
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. Boy Akkerman is a Dutch artist who co-created Captain Ultimate and also co-founded the Eurocomics mag DutchMetal. What current projects are you working on? I set up a new anthology style comicmagazine called DutchMetal. It […]
Crime Beat: On American Crime and the Terror of Desire
The third episode of the third season of American Crime is the best episode of this show that’s been broadcast to date and by extension one of the greatest episodes of television ever to air. For this installment of the column I’m not going to talk about what it was so much as what it […]
Dueling Auteurs: Kong: Skull Island vs Godzilla
Because we’re geeks, we frequently find it’s easier to understand an artist’s work when comparing them to another artist, finding out the common or antithetical traits that bind them. Hence Dueling Auteurs, a column where we take two auteurs from any medium and compare and contrast them. This month, we pit Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ new Kong: Skull Island […]
All Time Comics: Crime Destroyer is an Incompetent, Garish Insult to Readers
As a dumb kid without much in the way of allowance, most of my early comics acquisitions came from the bargain bin. I was painfully out of the loop when it came to the events of the ’90s and my knowledge of comics history was fragmented and sparse, cribbed from backmatter and little yellow editor […]
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