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Heroes Never Rust #7: Miracleman, or Why I Hate Lawyers
Heroes Never Rust #7 by Sean Ironman Miracleman, or Why I Hate Lawyers In the comic book field, as in many other fields, people rip each other off. Many comic book publishers have a version of a superhero that is similar to a character published by another company. Sometimes these characters are created at the… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #7: The Green Fairy
In Boozo Veritas #7 by Teege Braune The Green Fairy Ah! the Green Goddess! What is the fascination that makes her so adorable and so terrible?”—Aleister Crowley Absinthe, that exotic emerald green liquid with its secret ingredient Wormwood, a powerful and dangerous psychotropic. Absinthe, scourge of the nineteenth century salon, through whence bohemians became maniacs and… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #6: These Childish Things
Like a Geek God #6 by Mark Pursell These Childish Things Geeks have it over Muggles in one very important area: we are highly susceptible to wonder. Wonder is something I think we all, geek or not, can remember from moments in our childhood, particularly as they pertain to the pop culture we were being… Continue reading
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Episode 66: Kalliope Lee!
Episode 66 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the novelist Kalliope Lee, plus Scott Hoffman talks about John Demos’s The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Until Tuesday, September 17th,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #6: Death Wish 3
The Curator of Schlock #6 by Jeffrey Shuster Death Wish 3 (Mr. Vigilante) This is the one we’ve all been waiting for. We languished through the earnest sentimentality of Death Wish 1 and the sleazy sleaziness of Death Wish 2. Now we’ve arrived at Death Wish 3, the masterpiece of the vigilante genre. Its influence… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #5: Sensing the Artist
Loading the Canon #5 by Helena-Anne Hittel Sensing the Artist I’m an art historian. I study art. I am expected to know what the work is called, what it is made of, who made it, when they made it, and (depending on the professor) maybe even the dimensions of said work. In short, if it… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #6: Women in Superhero Comics
Heroes Never Rust #6 by Sean Ironman Women in Superhero Comics I’m a white, heterosexual male. As such, I never really paid attention to how minorities are portrayed in superhero comics. I’m sure that sounds bad, but let’s be honest. Portrayals of minorities was never an issue for me because I was well-portrayed. And when… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #6: Art Spiegelman’s Maus
Gutter Space #6 by Leslie Salas The Mice Behind the Masks: Art Spiegelman’s Maus Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a framed narrative graphic novel in which the relationship between the author, Artie, and his father, Vladek, is exposed and intertwined with the author’s attempt to capture and relate his father’s experience as a persecuted Jew during… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #6: Staggering Down the Halls of Matriculation
In Boozo Veritas #6 by Teege Braune Staggering Down the Halls of Matriculation The dichotomies between my own straight-laced lifestyle and juvenile obsession with the Beat Generation was not lost on me when I was a young man. Ever eager to give the middle finger to conformity, I wore colorful scarves to high school and read… Continue reading
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