“44 Medieval Beasts That Cannot Even Handle It Right Now”
A gallery of Medieval European beasts and creatures who can’t even.
Seven Strange “Indian” Creatures
Friend of the Gutter, Samit Basu shares “7 Strange ‘Indian’ Creatures” at Huffington Post. “I’ve never written an “about India” book — the closest I’ve come is setting large parts of a superhero novel, Turbulence, in India — but I did notice several British and American reviewers mentioning that […]
An Excerpt from Resistance
Tor has an excerpt from Resistance, the latest book by friend of the Gutter, Samit Basu: “A giant lobster rises slowly out of Tokyo Bay. It is an old-school kaiju, 300 feet long, and stands upright, its hind limbs still under water, in defiance of biology, physics and […]
King Kong vs. Donkey Kong
Comic Book Resources has the history of Universal’s suit against Nintendo or… King Kong vs. Donkey Kong!
Maybe we’ll buy a boat
In the house I grew up in, at the front of the garage, there was a pair of boat supports on the wall. No boat, just the two long arms sticking out at roughly skull level so you had to manoeuver awkwardly underneath them to reach the cars. […]
10 Comics I Liked In 2013
It’s an amazing time in comics right now. There are too many good ones for me to even read them all. Comics are like a hydra, but without the decapitation or even really the fighting. (So maybe not all that much like a hydra except I find one […]
The Cultural Gutter 