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 […]
No More Mancubes: In Defense of Suicide Squad
Last weekend, the Austin contingent of Loser City got together to watch the much maligned hit Suicide Squad. Kayleigh Hughes, Chris Jones and Nick Hanover (and Dylan Garsee, who is too busy running a fancy chicken shack to participate in roundtables these days) went in with low expectations but were pleasantly surprised by the film, so […]
DC REBIRTH: Judge A Cover Not, Lest Ye Be Judged
For Rebirth (a relaunch that Geoff Johns, Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, describes as an attempt to “give back [a] sense of hope and optimism” to their output), DC Comics plans to release a series of one-shot specials for most of their ongoing books that begin launching this June. The edict for the covers of these […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Five, 20-1
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. For many people, that has come primarily in the form of the advent of the […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Four, 40-21
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. For many people, that has come primarily in the form of the advent of the […]
Supergirl 1.05 and 1.06 Reviews
Supergirl 1.05 “How Does She Do It?” and 1.06 “Red Faced” So after being pushed back a week due to unfortunate similarities to real-life events, Supergirl’s fifth/actually-fourth episode, “How Does She Do It?” aired this week. Like I said last time, the shuffle actually rather worked in the show’s favor. The only real shuffled narrative […]
Anatomy of a Prologue Pt. 1: Sub-Diego Embraces the Sounds of Silence
The city of San Diego sunk into the ocean with issue #15 of the Aquaman series that ran from 2003 to 2006 after what one would assume was a rather demoralizing SDCC for series editor Peter J. Tomasi and series writer Will Pfeifer. The convention center along with the Gaslamp Quarter and even the zoo […]
An Unnatural Graft: The Assembly-line Ableism of Cyborg #1
In superhero comics, there’s a constant push-and-pull between the cutting-edge and the dated. New universes are created, grow long in the tooth, and then get wiped out of existence when the company in question wants to begin a new era. This immediate churn has, for decades now, created a paradox: that while superhero comic books […]
Black Canary #1 is a Promising but Not Quite Classic Single
If you think about it, rock stars are pretty close analogues to super heroes. They like costumes, they have outsized personalities and they’re always bickering amongst themselves. So it’s a bit weird that there are so few rock star superheroes. There’s Dazzler, sure, but that character’s origin as a Casablanca Records promotion gone wrong makes […]
Yellowed Pages: Cosmic Odyssey Is Basically 24 by Way of Infinity Gauntlet
Sometimes we just want to talk about old comics we found in bargain bins or antique stores or in our garages. Is that so wrong? Today we’re looking back at Cosmic Odyssey, a DC crossover event drawn by Mike Mignola (!) and written by Jim Starlin that is most famous for featuring a scene where Martian […]