The Cultural Gutter Book Returns!

It’s back! The 2011 Cultural Gutter book has been reissued by Play Story Press. Read excellent essays by CG Editors Jim Munroe, James Schallenberg, Carol Borden, Chris Szego and Ian Driscoll on video games, science fiction and fantasy, comics, and romance. Plus, cool infographic illustrations by E.J. Lee. […]

Exhuma: Demons of the Past

The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is familial and imperial history reaching back to World War II and even further. And if there are not precisely demons in the film, well, there are things that are close enough.

“Doom Patrol Thoughts”

Sarah Horrocks considers Doom Patrol at Mercurial Blonde. “I was really surprised by Doom Patrol.  From the Morrison front, I feel like one of the things he’s best at is turning comics into these kind of jagged poems spinning off into all directions, and one of the things […]