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Why So Angry: Refusing to Forget Stories of Abuse

October 13, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

If you’re outspoken online, you often get asked some variation of “Why are you so angry?” Sometimes it’s more sarcastic, an iteration of “u mad bro?” Other times it’s stated with bewilderment, pointedly questioning the expense of your energy. What’s personally always the most frustrating, though, is when it’s stated in a way that implies […]

Filed Under: Art, Features Tagged With: Abuse, harassment, Trauma

Hazel Newlevant’s Sugar Town is as Sweet and Pleasant as Its Name

October 12, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Sugar Town Hazel Newlevant

Stories about queer people can sometimes feel incomplete, even shallow. Even in 2017, it seems like a lot of stories focus on the sex, probably because that’s what straight people are likely to get hung up on when it comes to queer relationships. It’s foreign and novel, and just a bit naughty. But because of […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Hazel Newlevant, indie comics, Sugar Town

Open Mike Eagle’s Brick Body Kids Still Daydream is a Fearlessly Self-aware Work

September 26, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Open Mike Eagle Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

Successful musicians often hit a point in their careers where the more universal feelings that fueled their early work, like desperation and hunger and a need to prove yourself, fall away as they instead reflect on the alienation of fame and the touring life. Open Mike Eagle isn’t a household name yet but his career […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Open Mike Eagle

Devin Faraci and the Cost of Unearned Second Chances

September 18, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Devin Faraci

Not long after the major success of a campaign to host women only screenings of Wonder Woman at their theatres in an effort to make for a safer viewing experience, the Alamo Drafthouse found itself receiving intense media and fan scrutiny for a decision many viewed as actively harmful to women. Citing his passionate belief in “second […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Alamo Drafthouse, Devin Faraci, Eddie Berganza, Fantastic Fest, harassment, Louis CK, R Kelly, Roman Polanski, Scott Allie, Tim League, Woody Allen

Comics Aren’t Their Creative Process

September 15, 2017 By Austin Lanari Leave a Comment

As a comic critic, at a certain point, it’s hard to keep up with the sheer volume of unjustified, shoot-from-the-hip, self-interested hot takes about the alleged piss poor quality of the average comic book review. With the amount of noise that’s been made, you would think someone would link a review or two, or at […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Criticism

Boston Terriers and Desert Vibes: A Conversation with Jay and Sanders Fabares of “The Pale”

September 14, 2017 By Ben Howard Leave a Comment

Not too long ago, I wrote a review of The Pale, a black and white mystery comic about the discovery of a burned corpse in a small desert town. Jay and Sanders Fabares are the husband/wife duo behind the comic. Sanders writes the comic while Jay handles art duties. They have been making the comic […]

Filed Under: Features, Interviews Tagged With: comics, Jay Fabares, Sanders Fabares, The Pale, webcomics

Winnebago Graveyard Offers Ample Thrills but Needs More Space to Tell its Story

September 13, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

No matter how often we took them, family trips always made me uneasy. I’d sit in the back seat imagining all the ways we could meet untimely ends, burning through books and comics that only provided further nightmare fuel. What is the American interior but a patchwork quilt of ideal murder spots and forgotten places […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Alison Sampson, Image Comics, Steve Niles, Winnebago Graveyard

The Deuce is New York at its Ugliest and Most Captivating

September 11, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

The Deuce HBO Maggie Gyllenhaal

Nostalgia for New York’s most decrepit years is a dangerous drug in film and tv. It emboldens creators, convincing them any half-assed idea they’ve got lying around can be brilliant if they drop it into a setting full of garbage fires, addicts and porno theatres. A simple look back at recent heavily hyped failures like Vinyl […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: David Simon, George Pelecanos, HBO, James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Margarity Levieva, The Deuce, Zoe Kazan

Made Men is Too Poorly Stitched Together to Stand On Its Own

September 6, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Made Men comic

There’s this Comedy Bang! Bang! bit where Scott Aukerman is telling Reggie Watts about some new films he’s going to be in this summer. All of them are named after an innocuous phrase that they take extremely literally, like An Apple a Day, and as Aukerman goes on they get more and more absurd. I bring this […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Arjuna Susini, comics, Gonzalo Duarte, horror, Made Men, Oni Press, Paul Tobin

Pop Rehabilitation: Jawbreaker

August 31, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

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 revisits Darren Stein’s underappreciated 1999 flop Jawbreaker, which he argues was a far more representative teen film experience than its more successful peers and successors. […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Carol Kane, Darren Stein, Film, Jawbreaker, Judy Greer, melodrama, Pam Grier, Pop Rehabilitation, Rebecca Gayheart, Rose McGowan

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