This week at Loser City we’re going to be discussing some meta mercenary works, commercial projects that tried to thwart their for-hire origins with some self-commentary, for better or for worse. Today we’re resurrecting and updating an essay Nick Hanover wrote for Comics Bulletin on Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, a miniseries by Cullen Bunn and Dalibor […]
Immortal Combat: Master of Kung Fu is a Welcome Punch to the Gut
This was wishful thinking to the extreme, but when Kagan Mcleod’s Infinite Kung-Fu came out, I hoped it would spark a new wave of kung-fu comics. I’m not talking about that late era Iron Fist shit, where it’s basically sub-Dr. Strange mysticism slapped on top of old pulp adventuring. I’m talking about Shaw Brothers-indebted myth and […]