“Marvel Comics has been having a rough time lately. Readers and critics met last year’s Civil War 2—a blockbuster crossover event (and a spiritual tie-in to the year’s big Marvel movie)—with disinterest and scorn. Two years of plummeting print comics sales culminated in a February during which only […]
“Create new loves for the person suffering from love sickness; find new joys to ease the domination of the old.” ~ Dr. Hippolyte Petit There was a time when nostalgia was an illness, not a pleasantly bittersweet feeling that arises when contemplating another time. Nostalgia was an illness […]
Paste Magazine talks to Tom King and Mitch Gerads about their upcoming Mister Miracle comic series. “The pair is discussing their upcoming series, Mister Miracle, about a cosmic Jesus Christ analogue who’s also an escape artist, and how in this moment, it’s very, very hard not to feel […]
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins offers a memoriam for Vinod Khanna at Beth Loves Bollywood with “Vinod Khanna: Masculinity So Adaptable.” “In the palette of fillum masculinity circa 1980 that ranges from petulant man-child to aggressive, absurd machismo to ideals-based philosophizing to starry-eyed lover, he tapped into points […]
Open Culture has the skinny on a whack of Doctor Who audio dramas available for you to stream! “The best known of these Doctor Who radio plays, which you can hear on this playlist, come produced by a company called Big Finish. Having acquired a license from the BBC in […]
At the Feminine Critique, friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace have released “The Feminine Critique Episode 87, “wherein Christine Makepeace completely changes Emily Intravia’s opinion of The Skeptic and the ladies have a very scientifically based discussion about the impossible physics of shirts in Texas […]
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