The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages
Dart Adams Presents: Black Like Me: The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages, Part One (1900-1968)and Part Two (1969-2008). (Click it! It’s amazing).
Baba O’Geeky (LOL)
The Who’s “Baba O’Reilly” performed with Think Geek gadgets. Yeah, it’s marketing but it’s also neat.(via Wil Wheaton)
“You Asked For It–Cried For It–Demanded It!”
“You asked for it–Cried for it–Demanded it!” Yes, dear reader, Sequential Crush, a blog dedicated to romance comics from the 1960s and 1970s. Check out “Black + White = Heartbreak,” a story about interracial romance in the early 1970s and scans of the first three issues of Night […]
10 Comics I Liked in 2009
It’s that time of year when writers list the year’s best things. This year, some people are listing the decade’s best. And, oh, my temples ache because if there’s someone who manages to read every comic every year for a decade, let alone every comic setting fans a-twitter, […]
Cruel Gun Stories from Unusual Suspects
This month Teleport City shakes down Nikkatsu Studios from Cruel Gun Story to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (aka, “The Best Named Film Ever”).
In Two Cases, Better Than the Book
A common saying, and I’ve said it lots of times myself: “The book was better than the movie.” It’s short-hand for the way that material that’s appealing at book length somehow loses its depth when adapted into a movie. But what about stories that improve in the conversion […]
The Cultural Gutter 