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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

Comics (Critics) Should Be Decent: Yet Another Discourse About Discourse

August 15, 2017 By Nick Hanover 1 Comment

Last year, Kim O’Connor and I teamed up to dig into some of the reasons why a lot of people in comics get so burned out on the medium. We called it a “discourse about discourse” and now here we are again, still feeling burned out and having yet another discourse about discourse, except this […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Criticism, Kim O'Connor

On Elaine Welteroth, Teen Vogue and Editorial Voice in New Media

December 12, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Elaine Welteroth

Even if you’ve never picked up a single issue of Teen Vogue in your life, chances are you’ve recently seen its content getting shared around, usually in juxtaposition to immature content from a more “reputable” publication, like this: The first time you encounter Teen Vogue in this way, it’s hard not to go along, to turn […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Criticism, Elaine Welteroth, Jes Skolnik, Jessica Hopper, media, Teen Vogue

Speak On, Not Over: Strange Fruit and Critical Dilemmas

July 14, 2015 By Shea Hennum Leave a Comment

Strange Fruit Mark Waid JG Jones

In 1773, when an 18-year-old Phillis Wheatley attempted to publish her first collection of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious, and Moral, she was interviewed by a panel of 18 men who sought to verify whether or not the poems were actually written by Wheatley. The reasoning was that a black woman was simply incapable […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Criticism, Strange Fruit

Double Consciousness: Better Than Nuts

May 18, 2015 By Lars Russell Leave a Comment

Here’s a trick: Find a person you love and offer them something no one has ever seen, that no one will ever see again. Admire their astonishment. Then, produce a peanut. It could be anything in a shell—an oyster, say, but that’s messier to share. Crack it open, and each eat one of the nuts. […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Betty Draper, breakups, Clancy Martin, Criticism, Dishonesty, Don Draper, Double Consciousness, Honesty, Lies, love, Love & Lies, Lying, Mad Men, Rilke, Samuel Beckett, Television, TV

Bonus Content: Interview with Charles Webb

July 15, 2014 By LoserCityBoss 1 Comment

Charles Webb

We spoke with Charles Webb, a pop culture critic for outlets as diverse as Paste, MTV Geek and his own FreakSugar (as well as his peer Rowan Kaiser) for a piece on games journalism at large, and we felt it was an interesting discussion, which is why we’ve included it as bonus content here. Jake (Loser […]

Filed Under: Interviews, News Tagged With: Charles Webb, Criticism, FreakSugar, Games, Games Journalism, Paste

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

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Comics, shows, a secret critical network -- we aim to fail big.

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