With a new president comes a new era in the American story, and a perfect opportunity to reexamine our culture and governmental systems. Or, if you’re in a more cynical mood, to mock them mercilessly. Comics have been taking swipes and providing social commentary since the birth of the medium, in both the savage and profane […]
The graphic novel medium lends itself incredibly well to weirdness. Comics are frequently, wonderfully strange, in the very best sense of the word. From the very beginning, something about the format has welcomed unique sensibilities to tell stories that can’t (or won’t) be told elsewhere. Even the most mainstream material, from Superman to the Teenage […]
Space opera is a bit like pornography (bear with me here)…As the old legal formulation goes, you can’t exactly define it, but you know it when you see it. True, there’s perhaps no other genre that inspires quite as much passionate disagreement among fans about what exactly makes a space opera a space opera, but…but you know it […]