Wayne Barlowe’s Aliens
The Internet Archive has Barlowe’s Guide To Extraterrestrials, and you can look at it here!
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
“The Decade Comic Book Nerds became Our Cultural Overlords”
Alex Pappademas writes about “The Decade Comic Book Nerds became Our Cultural Overlords”: “The reason all this should worry you, even if you have zero investment in superhero movies or their relative position vis-a-vis film culture as a whole, is that the response to Scorsese is a populist […]
“H. P. Lovecraft’s Monster Drawings”
Open Culture has some of Lovecraft’s illustrations of his hideous creations. View them at risk to your sanity here.
“When Empathy comes from the Last Place You’d Expect.”
At Polygon, Eirik Gumeny writes about Red Dead Redemption 2 and life with a terminal illness. “I actually learned to avoid characters I might relate to when I was growing up with cystic fibrosis, as they never seemed to exist as people. They were instead used as props, […]
“Rennosuke and the Three Light Sabers”
Watch a Kabuki interpretation of Kylo Ren’s story, “Rennosuke and the Three Light Sabers” right here. Rennosuke stars famed Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo XI as Rennosuke / Kylo Ren. (Ichikawa has also performed in films and you might remember him from Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011), Over […]
“Why We Relate to Batman”
At the Comics Professor, friend of the Gutter Mark D. White considers why and how we related to Batman. “Batman’s ongoing struggles with moral inconsistency provide us with a point of reference to consider our own. Most of us have a concept of the good we want to […]
The Cultural Gutter 