Who Is The Superest?
There can only be one Superest: “Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.”
Reaching the Youth — With Comics!
I was looking through the picture books in the back of a bookstore where I sometimes work, when a woman came over with her son and slid out one I had snorted at earlier, Pete Sanders’ What Do You Know About Bullying? With Illustrated Storylines. And she said […]
Cosmonauts Love It
Listen and learn all about Vyachaslav Mescherin’s Soviet E-Z listening, the first music transmitted from orbit–by Sputnik. Cosmonauts love electro-musical instruments. Scroll down to the bottom of the Third Coast Festival’s 2004 archive.
Mazen Kerbaj
French comics publisher L’Association is showing some of Mazen Kerbaj’s drawings and that’s a good excuse to put up a link for them. Kerbaj’s blog, Kerblog, is here.
Spoiler Warning!
Check out Half-Life 1 and 2 in 60 seconds – with a just a few spoilers 😉
I Read Adventure Novels for the Historical Exposition
From a purely critical standpoint, Louis L’Amour’s The Walking Drum is a gruesome mess. It’s a historical novel that constantly hits the reader on the head with blocks of exposition. The hero, Kerbouchard, is not only a nigh-invulnerable fighter, he’s one of the finest scholars of the twelfth […]
The Cultural Gutter 