When I was a mere lad, I picked up a battered newsstand copy of Power Man and Iron Fist. I had grown up with superheroes in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk, and The Herculoids on the television, but my comics reading prior to that issue […]
Joe Steckart has an interesting response to Patton Oswalt’s “Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die“: “Reading Watchmen does not make you cool. Being able to talk about it intelligently does. The counterculture, the ineffable ‘cool,’ will always be manifesting itself in something. Right now it’s manifesting at least […]
Patton Oswalt wants to save geekery by destroying it: “In order to save pop culture future, we’ve got to make the present pop culture suck, at least for a little while.” It reminds me of Jim Munroe’s question at WisCon 2008: “Does it have to get boring before […]
John Hodgman and Patton Oswalt face off in an epic geek-off for WFMU. Bester’ed, Bova’ed– two geeks enter, one geek leaves.
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The Cultural Gutter 