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Loading the Canon #2: Untitled
Loading the Canon by Helena-Anne Hittel Untitled It isn’t always required of an artist to have a title for a piece. This is one of the art world’s many liberties. Art without a title can leave a lot to the imagination. It doesn’t mean that an artist has given up. People look at pieces differently… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #3: Pushing the Boundaries between Comics and Animation in Randall Munroe’s XKCD
Gutter Space #3 by Leslie Salas Pushing the Boundaries between Comics and Animation in Randall Munroe’s XKCD No discussion of comics on the Internet would be complete without taking a look at Randall Munroe’s xkcd. Self-described as “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language,” xkcd is known by its substantial following as “the smart stick… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #3: Superhero Films’ Effect on the Comics
Heroes Never Rust #3 by Sean Ironman Superhero Films’ Effect on the Comics Before the first Iron Man movie, I never liked the character. Some of my dislike for Tony Stark surely came from people constantly mentioning the character because of my last name and from getting the same Iron Man action figure as a… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #3: Marisha Pessl’s New Literary Thriller
Buzzed Books #3 by Alise Hamilton The Art of Balance: Marisha Pessl’s New Literary Thriller Many of books make the claim of being at once a thriller and literary, but Marisha Pessl truly delivers on both fronts. Night Film is substantial, character driven, and full of delicious turns of phrase. It is also enormously suspenseful,… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #3: Through the Looking Glass Darkly
In Boozo Veritas #3 by Teege Braune Through the Looking Glass Darkly No single narcotic or hallucinogenic drug mirrors a state of dream sleep better than a thoroughly annihilated blackout drunk. Marihuana with its transitions between anxiety and dopey boredom never creates the kind of mental adventures we experience while unconscious. LSD brings intense and often… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #2: The Unavoidable Trepidation of Episode VII
Like a Geek God #2 by Mark Pursell The Unavoidable Trepidation of Episode VII When The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm in October 2012, simultaneously announcing plans to produce a new trilogy of Star Wars films set chronologically sometime after the events of Return of the Jedi, the reaction of fanfolks across the world–myself included–was… Continue reading
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Episode 62: Mailbag Episode 2 (Electric Boogaloo)
Episode 62 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Jared Silvia reads his amazing new essay, “City of Ghosts.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES • Think about… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #2: The Swarm
The Curator of Schlock #2 by Jeffrey Shuster The Swarm: Bees Kill! I know there are some of you out there that find the idea of a zombie apocalypse preposterous beyond belief. Okay then. How about bees? African Killer Bees! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you 1978’s The Swarm directed by the “master of disaster” himself… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #2: Thompson’s Narrative Braiding in Habibi
Gutter Space #2 by Leslie Salas Thompson’s Narrative Braiding in Habibi In the graphic novel Habibi, Craig Thompson uses the theme of willing- versus forced-sacrifice to effectively braid narratives from the Bible and the Qur’an with the coming of age stories of orphans Dodola and Zam. This juxtaposition of stories and images emphasizes influences the… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #2: Why is Batman a Superhero but James Bond isn’t?
Heroes Never Rust #2 by Sean Ironman Why is Batman a Superhero but James Bond isn’t? One of the inaccuracies about superheroes I’ve found is that all comic book heroes are superheroes. Since the sixties, superhero comics have been the most popular genre in the comics industry. People forget comic books are not just superheroes,… Continue reading
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