Shea Hennum and Christopher M. Jones spend a lot of time arguing the rules of genre. So instead of letting them continue to distract us here in the imaginary Loser City offices, we forced them to get together and attempt to settle one of their biggest semantic conflicts: are superheroes action movies? Shea Hennum: So, […]
Loser City on the Web: Elkin on Sex Coven, Muncy gets 404sight, Hennum on, well, everything
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, […]
Loser City on the Web: Sackllah talks to Built to Spill, Hennum on Wuvable Oaf, Muncy on Malebolgia, Napier on Wolverine
It’s been a while since we’ve rounded up where Loser City writers are appearing, but it’s because we’ve been busy doing things like playing Skirrid: I’m the handsome James Bond looking dude and Danny is the one who looks like J.K. Simmons cosplaying as Sigmund Freud, obviously. Anyway, on to the real news, which is the […]
Loser City on the Web: Critic Game Battle Royale, Hennum on Manga, Francesca Lyn on Identity in Comics and More
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 […]
Loser City on the Web: Hennum Debuts at Paste, Russell at Raw Paw and Some Compliments
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. […]
Poetry: Moebius Strip by Shea Hennum
This week has seen a column on superhero-inspired poetry and a review of a comics poetry anthology, so Shea Hennum’s “Moebius Strip” felt like the perfect addition to the mix. Moebius Strip Shea Hennum She was my two-page splash, My panel one, My gutter, my caption. My bombastic exposition and overwritten fiction. She was my […]
Loser City on the Web: Garsee at Previously.tv, Muncy at AV Club, Hennum at This is Infamous, More
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 […]
Fiction: This American Life-On-Closed Circuit by Shea Hennum
The pocket knife Allison Squibb had carried since she was thirteen was dull, and she strained as she cut into her arm to remove the small ident device lodged in the musculature, pressed tight against the skin on the underside of her elbow. Allison carved around the zit-sized bump and pulled out a small blinking […]