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MegaReview 27 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
Optic Nerve #13 by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly) In his previous issue of Optic Nerve, Tomine seemed to be playing around with stylistic tics borrowed from Frank King and Dan Clowes. In the main ...
Time To Move On 26 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
Imagine if George W. Bush had been forced to stay in office till he had personally gunned down Osama Bin Laden. Or if Obama can’t leave till he bags his own arch-nemesis, Edward Snowden. What would th...
Five Haiku 25 Aug 2013 | 06:59 pm
I had completely forgotten these ran at way back when. ________ Drat. I have no pants. The days are cold; the nights, cold. Here I sit. Help me. The morning stretches Like a woozy cat retching ...
Killer Elite is Really, Really Real. Really. 24 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm
This first appeared a ways back on Splice Today. _____ The most interesting part about Killer Elite is not the film’s claim that it’s derived from factual events. The most interesting part is how ut...
Utilitarian Review 8/24/13 24 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
On HU Featured Archive Post: Aishwarya Subramanian on Timpa, an Indian analogue to Tintin. Chris Gavaler on animal men and superhero dualism. Ng Suat Tong on xkcd’s Time and the oddly muted reactio...
You Don’t Need to Be Strong If You’re a Kid 23 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
Last week over at the New Statesman, Sophia McDougall had a long piece about how she’s sick of strong female characters. Nowadays the princesses all know kung fu, and yet they’re still the same princ...
Prehistory of the Superhero (Part 2): Vampires, Victorians, and Vendettas 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
It happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of the ton a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, tha...
Taking some responsibility 21 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
There’s not a lot to be said about the game Dragon’s Crown that hasn’t been said already – it’s one of the most transparent litmus tests for ingroup sexism you could ask for. A single look at the sorc...
xkcd: On Time and Twinkies 20 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
The world of comics may seem like a pint-sized planet but news still takes some time to travel from one point to another. Often (and almost paradoxically) the more popular a comic, the less likely its...
Elephant Man 19 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
What makes a loving husband and father-of-two go on a shooting rampage, murdering sixteen people in their homes, most of them women and children? I don’t know, but Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales pleaded...
