End of Year at the Comics Alliance
The Comics Alliance displays the full might of its geekery listing its best of 2009, its superlatives of 2009, its worst of the decade, its trends the Alliance wants dead and its top ten lists of 2009 list.
Carol
Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
2009’s Sticky Comics
Glen Weldon writes about the comics that stuck to his “teflon-coated brain”in 2009. Blair Butler shares her best of stand alone and stand outs as well as her best ongoing series. Meanwhile, Brian Cronin completes his year of cool comic book moments and begins his year of cool […]
Unthawing Action Heroes
Dolph Lundgren and Jean Claude Van Damme have been unthawed for the upcoming Universal Soldier: Regeneration. (Well, JCVD’s only been in the crisper drawer since JCVD).
The Season of Jonathan Coulton
Here’s a little more Jonathan Coulton and Merry Xmas from Chiron Beta Prime!
Wil Wheaton Loves You
“It doesn’t mean that Wil Wheaton doesn’t love you”: Jonathan Coulton explains a few things about Wil Wheaton to Wil Wheaton and the fans at PAX 2009–to the tune of “Code Monkey.”
“Why Anti-Telepathy Helmets Do Not Work”
Lady, That’s My Skull has fragments from a manifesto written by a disgruntled smoking scientist at a secret base in Nevada: “Why Anti-Telepathy Helmets Do Not Work.”
The Cultural Gutter 