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The Night Driver is a Stylish 21st Century Twist on The Tell-Tale Heart

May 18, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

The Night Driver

The Night Driver Script by Ken Lowery Artwork by Gavin Guidry Letters by Micah Myers There used to be this running column in my local weekly where people could write anonymous letters ranting about fellow citizens or making embarrassing confessions. Sometimes the rants would be about truly odd, one-of-a-kind experiences but the bulk of the […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Gavin Guidry, Ken Lowery, Micah Myers, noir, The Night Driver

Judging the Book By Its Cover: White Jazz by James Ellroy

May 8, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

White Jazz James Ellroy

Judging the Book By Its Cover is a column where we, you guessed it, judge books by their covers. Or more accurately, we judge the covers of books, examining the different aesthetics they’ve had through the years (and in some cases titles) to determine which are the most and least effective. Even in crime lit, […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: books, Chip Kidd, crime fiction, James Ellroy, Judging the Book By Its Cover, literature, noir, White Jazz

Kill or Be Killed Claims to Be New and Different, but It’s Business as Usual for Brubaker and Phillips

August 4, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Ed Brubaker Sean Phillips Image Comics

There are some creative teams in comics that I’ll come out for whenever they release works, not because their consistency is so high that I know I’ll get perfection but because even if the work is disappointing, it’s still entertaining. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips stand out as especially symbolic of this, with their current […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Ed Brubaker, Elizabeth Breitweiser, Image Comics, Kill or Be Killed, noir, Sean Phillips

Midnight of the Soul is Howard Chaykin Channeling James Ellroy’s LA Quartet

June 8, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Midnight of the Soul Howard Chaykin

I recently went through a heavy James Ellroy phase after finally tracking down some of his books that I had yet to read. The thing about reading Ellroy in chunks is that his prose is so fluid and readable it takes a while for the full weight of his viciousness to sink in. Burning through […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Howard Chaykin, Image Comics, James Ellroy, Midnight of the Soul, noir

Down and Out in Terminal City: Catching Up with Ed Brisson

December 3, 2015 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Ed Brisson

As one of the hardest working men in comics, Ed Brisson seems to always be juggling a number of promising projects. We chatted with the gritty Vancouverite earlier this year about his trippy super hero epic The Mantle so we were happy to talk to him again about his new urban noir work The Violent. Where The Mantle was a […]

Filed Under: Features, Interviews Tagged With: Adam Gorham, Boom! Studios, crime, Ed Brisson, Image Comics, noir, The Last Contract, The Violent, Vancouver

Yellowed Pages: Pink Flamingos

October 5, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

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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 bring you RJ Casey’s debut at Loser City, an excited look back at the obscure couldabeen hit comic series Pink Flamingos, published by Simon & Schuster in the wake […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Carol Q. Sansevere, comics, John R. Sansevere, Miami, noir, Pink Flamingos, William Rieser, yellowed pages

Anatomy of a Page: Rich Tommaso’ Dark Corridor #2 Page 5

September 3, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Dark Corridor Rich Tommaso

Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and photography. We’ve decided to change that up with a feature that we’re calling Anatomy of a Page, in which we explore pages and […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Anatomy of a Page, comics, Dark Corridor, Image Comics, noir, Rich Tommaso

Putting Out Fire with Gasoline: Wolf #1 is LA Noir with a Bite

July 23, 2015 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Wolf Matt Taylor Ales Kot Image Comics

Do you think fire stands out to humanity as an immortal symbol because of its danger? Or is it because of its utilitarian purpose? We fear fire but it also guides us, warms us, destroys forever anything we feed to it. Fire is fleeting but its destruction is permanent, a sure way to erase an object […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Ales Kot, comics, Image Comics, Lee Loughridge, Matt Taylor, noir, Wolf

Good Luck, Doc: Inherent Vice is a Stoner Noir with Sharp Vision

December 29, 2014 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Before you read anything else about Inherent Vice, the latest project from lauded auteur filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, I urge you to watch the trailer. Like, right now. The trailer’s uncanny comedic timing, musical exuberance, and oddball stoner-noir narration (courtesy of Joanna Newsom) come together with stunning clarity into what could be described as a sort of multi-sensory poem, […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: doc, Film, film review, inherent vice, johnson hagood, movie, movie review, neo-noir, noir, paul thomas anderson, Review, stoner noir, thomas pynchon

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