On HU
Featured Archive Post on the dreadfulness of Darwyn Cooke’s New Frontier.
Eric Berlatsky on how Darwyn Cooke’s Before Watchmen may be just slightly better than that.
John Hennings on how country music got more racist.
Alex Buchet on some oddities of Uderzo and Jacobs.
RM Rhodes with a guide to what to see if you’re a comics fan in Brussels.
Isaac Butler on the boring beauty of Upstream Color.
Chris Gavaler on the Hollywood superhero and 9/11.
Me with a brief NSFW survey of porn comics through history.
Utilitarians Everywhere
I contributed to a roundtalbe on 50 Shades of Grey over at Public Books.
At the Atlantic I talk about how Hollywood puts icons ahead of people.
At Splice Today I write about:
How freelancing eats the soul.
Other Links
Jon Reiner on the modern writing school paradox.
Kelly Sue Deconnick on comics and sexism. (Edited because I was confused on the initial description.)
The city of Chicago sucks.
I don’t think Kelly Sue was calling Tom an ass, she was attacking the person who sent him an anonymous question about the way Kelly Sue broke into the industry. Tom was defending Kelly Sue by pointing out that she had done work in the industry that helped get her a job at Marvel, not her relationship with Matt Fraction.
I agree Tom Brevoort wasn’t the one bashing Kelly Sue.
Ah, crap; that’s what I get for not rereading the thing at the end of a long day; I’ll fix it. Thanks for the correction.
Bret Easton Ellis is a huge 50 Shades of Grey fan, funnily enough. Huge like he offered to write the screenplay. Makes sense in a way, the 50 Shades characters are pretty big narcissists…
Clare Jarvis’s 50 Shades Critique is awesome. It’s a great takedown without ever resorting to takedown language. I particularly like the observation that the only point of taste in the novel is to signal money and social status. NAR-CI-SSISTS! Hillary Hallet does a great job too, at capturing the books’ appeal. I’m so happy I can read this stuff without having to read the novels.
Yeah…reading the roundtable is a lot — a lot — more fun than reading the books.
I loved Claire’s line, “For E. L. James, “Anal Sex” is just another kind of Audi.” That’s awesome.