Henry Barajas has been doing great work in circles I frequent for a while now. Currently, he’s in the closing stages of a kickstarter for what looks like his best project yet. Here’s some of the amazing art, and Henry with the details. A resonant, neglected slice of American history is told for the first …
Last week’s physical comics were a Marvel full house. Three books, all completely different, all very good. Here they are. Immortal Hulk 6, called ‘Action/Reaction’ continues to build the world of the book out in a throughly enjoyable way. The transition from the one off rural horrors of the early issues looked like it might …
It’s a weird time in western comics. We’re into the triumphant third year, at least, of ‘the superhero movie bubble is about to burst!’ And the far right harassment campaigns that have wandered between pop culture media for years looking to start fights have decided that comics is their next hill to die on. Then …
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WorldCon was a flat out sprint through a notional, once a year college campus (I of course had the Community theme going through my head all week). You never see everyone you want to see for long enough. This year, for the first time, we also didn’t get to sit in any panels we weren’t …
One of my dearest friends and colleagues explained something to me this weekend. Setsu Uzume is our PodCastle host and their work is measured, compassionate and relentless, much like they are. Setsu told me that while my outros are about finding hope in horror, their outros are about choice. My work has inspired and evolved …
We started Saturday night dancing. Seriously, I’m pretty certain there’s footage of it somewhere. Filing into the main hall at the convention centre for the Hugo awards, full kilt, Marguerite looking like a constellation and Janelle Monae’s ‘Tightrope’ starts playing. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnefUaKCbc] And lo, the boogie was upon us. It set the tone for the …
Just as Predators is the bleak Ginger Rogers to the originals’ perpetually flexing Fred Astaire, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem is the Community theatre riff on AvP. There’s a bunch of great ideas here, but in every case they’re either sabotaged by the direction or damaged by the passage of linear time. Requiem follows, notionally, Kelly …
Or, I was a Teenage Meatshield I won’t go into detail about why there were two protests outside WorldCon on Saturday. It’s both pathetic and entirely what the people who instigated the situation want. Suffice to say, Saturday afternoon, the San Jose convention centre became the no man’s land between two equally apathetic protests, neither …
Every one wants to see champions fight. When the best of the best meet, it makes perfect sense to assume that the violence they perpetrate against one another will be extraordinary in some way. This is the lie that primary mixed martial arts organisations the UFC and Bellator have traded off for years. Remember ten …