Public Domain is Public Domain
Comic artist Brian Wood’s Public Domain is public domain, all 132 pages are now downloadable.
Could They Beat Up China Mieville?
Have you ever looked at someone and wondered, “Could they beat up China Miéville?” Now you have your answers, in story form.
Good-Bye, Oracle–Hello, Batgirl
As part of its massive “reboot,” DC Comics will make Barbara Gordon Batgirl again. This means, though that her 20 year history as Oracle, peerless hacker and information broker with an eidetic memory, leader of The Birds of Prey and one of the few examples of a differently-abled […]
Coming Up Roses
Like many in the book business, I get most of my books for free or at cost. While I rarely have the patience or skill to bargain for any other object, when it comes to books the thought of paying retail is, to me, rather absurd. The major […]
The False Consciousness of the X-Men
Matthew Yglesias says “Magneto Was Right”: “The mutant pride message is a radical one. It’s too radical for those whose WASP male privilege in their non-mutant lives makes them instinctively want to identify with existing power structures. But a mutant who’s also a Jew, or a woman, or […]
Quint’s Speech
It took 3–or maybe 4–stout men, including John Milius, to write Quint’s famous speech in Jaws.
The Cultural Gutter 