General News
Middle of summer and no one seems to be much interested in writing…so I think we’re going to take next week off, starting Monday.
Wonder Woman News
Cia Jackson reviewed my book at the Comics Grid. Not a very helpful review, as these things go…
On HU
Featured Archive Post: Subdee on Django Unchained and debt.
Robert Stanley Martin with on-sale dates of comics from early 1945—including Little Lulu and Milton Caniff.
Chris Gavaler on the superheroes politicians love.
Me on Ian McEwan and why he should stick to writing romance.
Me on the greatness of fIREHOSE’s Flyin’ the Flannel.
Roy T. Cook on bad superhero math and what to make of it.
I reviewed and anthology of Chinese experimental music.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At Quartz I wrote about why cultural appropriation isn’t theft (but can be racist.)
At Ravishly I wrote about Little Big Town, Willie Nelson, and same sex love in country music.
At Splice Today I wrote about:
—why Rorschach would be a better President than Ted Cruz.
—Sam Harris’ anti-semitic bilge.
Other Links
Tressie McMillan Cottom on TNC’s Between the World and Me is great.
It looks like Steven Salaita’s lawsuit is in good shape.
Gita Jackson on British wizards and American blackness.
Alyssa Rosenber on the conflicted feminism of Miss Piggy.
J.A. Micheline on why she’s boycotting Marvel.
Workin’ on something, I swear it