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Loser City on the Web: Elkin on Sex Coven, Muncy gets 404sight, Hennum on, well, everything

May 29, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Material Will Tempest Ales Kot

We felt so bad about skipping out on our round-ups of where everyone is writing that we decided to double up this week. So without further ado… Daniel Elkin went down south. As in New Zealand. Or at least on the interwebs he did. Joining up with the crew at Faction Comics for their Factional section, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 404Sight, Adrian Tomine, Ales Kot, AV Club, comics, Daniel Elkin, Frontier Comics, Image Comics, jake muncy, Jill Tamaki, Material, newsgames, Optic Nerve, Paste Magazine, Sex Coven, Shea Hennum, Will Tempest

Critical Exposure: Who Inspired Us to Take Up Criticism

March 13, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

In this week’s Loser City prompt, we ask our staff who inspired them to take criticism seriously. The answers range from devoted thank yous to specific critics, whimsical looks at the fictional critics and even some personal connections. We hope you enjoy and will be inspired to tell us which critics continue to stimulate your […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: AV Club, Julie Burchill, Lester Bangs, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Nick Kent, NME, Paul Morley, Richard Roeper, Roger Ebert, Steven Hyden, Todd van Der Werff, Tony Parson

Loser City on the Web: Critic Game Battle Royale, Hennum on Manga, Francesca Lyn on Identity in Comics and More

February 27, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Massive Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It

Us Loser City folk sometimes take trips outside the city limits, so this week we’re rounding up some of the places you might have seen Loser City citizens. It’s been a couple weeks since we checked in, but only because things have been crazy. As you may remember, Shea Hennum made his debut at Paste […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: AV Club, Fantagraphics, Francesca Lyn, Jacques Tardi, jake muncy, Mark Millar, Massive, Paste, Shea Hennum

Loser City on the Web: Hennum Debuts at Paste, Russell at Raw Paw and Some Compliments

February 9, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

The Sculptor

Us Loser City folk sometimes take trips outside the city limits, so this week we’re rounding up some of the places you might have seen Loser City citizens. The big news is that Shea Hennum made his debut over at Paste with a review of Scott McCloud’s new work The Sculptor, which Shea really didn’t like. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: AV Club, comics, Gameological Society, Games, jake muncy, Lars Russell, Raw Paw, Scott McCloud, Shea Hennum, The Sculptor, Unfinished Swan, WindWaker, Zainab Akhtar, Zelda

Loser City on the Web: Garsee at Previously.tv, Muncy at AV Club, Hennum at This is Infamous, More

January 23, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Alfonso Font

Us Loser City folk sometimes take trips outside the city limits, so this week we’re rounding up some of the places you might have seen Loser City citizens. Over at Previously.tv, Dylan Garsee bravely watched the 12 Monkeys pilot so you don’t have to. Was it any good? Well, this paragraph from Dylan should give you […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 12 Monkeys, Alfonso Font, AV Club, Dylan Garsee, jake muncy, Nick Hanover, Ovrld, Previously.tv, Shea Hennum, SyFy, Tales of an Imperfect Future, This is Infamous, UNTD Snks, Watchdogs

Loser City on the Web: Final Derby reviewed, Hanover on Herbie, Muncy on Metro 2033

January 16, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Us Loser City folk sometimes take trips outside the city limits, so this week we’re rounding up some of the places you might have seen Loser City citizens. First up, Lilith Wood gave Danny Djeljosevic and Diana Naneva’s Loser City release Final Derby some love over at Stackedd Magazine, calling the one-shot a “beautiful little story” […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: AV Club, Cultural Gutter, danny djeljosevic, diana naneva, Final Derby, Halo, Herbie, jake muncy, Kill Screen, Lilith Wood, Metro 2033, Nick Hanover, Stackedd Magazine

Bonus Content: Interview with Joystiq’s Rowan Kaiser

July 15, 2014 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Rowan Kaiser

We spoke with Rowan Kaiser, a games critic at Joystiq, the AV Club and elsewhere, for a piece on games journalism at large and some of the struggles it faces as the medium evolves. We wanted to include the full interview as bonus content for that article because we think it’s an interesting discussion. Jake […]

Filed Under: Interviews, News Tagged With: AV Club, Games, Games Journalism, Joystiq, Rowan Kaiser

How the Sausage Gets Made: A Look Inside the Sometimes Ugly World of Games Journalism

July 15, 2014 By LoserCityBoss 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, John Oliver ran a piece about FIFA on his new show, This Week Tonight. In it, he aired FIFA’s dirty laundry, invoking by way of warning what he called “the sausage principle”: if you love something, never learn how it’s made. In matters regarding hot dogs and Taco Bell, I tend […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: AV Club, Charles Webb, Criticism, Games Criticism, Gaming, Jenn Frank, Paste, Rowan Kaiser, Samantha Leigh Allen

Believe in What You Want: An Interview with the AV Club’s Jason Heller

June 9, 2014 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Jimmy Eat World

It’s no secret that all of us at Loser City are big fans of the AV Club, and it’s equally unsurprising that the site’s recent feature Fear of a Punk Decade has caught our interest in a big way. We spoke with Jason Heller, senior writer at the AV Club, about Fear of a Punk Decade, which wraps […]

Filed Under: Features, Interviews Tagged With: Against Me, AV Club, emo, Fear of a Punk Decade, hardcore, Hot Water Music, Jason Heller, Jimmy Eat World, Penetration, punk

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