Impending Wuxia Wonders!
The Hollywood Reporter has a piece on new film adaptations of Jin Yong / Louis Cha’s wuxia novels. Plus, HK film industry folk discuss Cha’s importance to them. (Via Colin Geddes).
“Darna Mana Hai: What lies beneath our ghost stories”
Friend of the Gutter Aditi Sen writes elegantly about ghost stories and “Golper Desh,” the land of stories created by her father: “Ghosts are never created in a vacuum. They are a culmination of numerous things – actual historical events, social oppressions, and injustice. They hold a mirror […]
The Ruinous Wrath of General Ursus
Wrath—sing, goddess, of the ruinous wrath of Kananaios’ son Ursus, that inflicted woes without number upon Apekind. ~ sorta Homer Ursus never knew his parents. He was adopted by Kananaios, an itinerant preacher of harsh principle, and traveled with him learning what Kananaios had to teach. Kananaios believed […]
The Virtues of Captain America
Friend of the Gutter, Mark D. White has a new blog looking at “ethically memorable moments in Captain America’s 50+ years in comics since his Silver Age revival in 1964.” And he begins with Cap in Avengers #4 (1967)!
Thinking about the new Captain America
Friend of the Gutter Mark D. White writes about first issue of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Leinil Francis Yu’s Captain America. He focuses on five aspects that “excite [him] going forward.”
The Two Naomis
The second half of the third season (TV seasons are weird these days) of The Expanse, which wrapped in late June (thanks, Amazon, for making sure it was a season finale instead of a series finale), begins with a seemingly innocuous detail about one of its characters. It’s […]
