All I Want For Christmas Is A Few Good Books
In the spirit of the season, here are ten, in alphabetical order by author.
Collect’em All, Kill’em All
Ever feel kind of sick reflecting on a game you enjoy? Flak Magazine’s James Norton does some soul-searching over Adult Swim’s almost Peckinpah flash game, Viva Caligula! “You personify the mad emperor Caligula as he goes on a neighborhood – to – neighborhood killing spree through Rome, taking […]
Frank Miller’s Hot Gates
A feeling’s been gnawing deep inside me for a while. A feeling that maybe Frank Miller’s hypermasculine antiheros and faceless, breast-thrusting women are exactly what they seem, not just sketchy parody. After reading 300, Miller’s 1998 account of the Spartans at Thermopylae, I don’t have any doubt: Miller […]
The Cultural Gutter 