Wonder Woman News
Joan Ormrod reviewed my book at Cinema Journal (mostly behind paywall, but she likes it better than Lepore’s, which doesn’t happen that much!)
On HU
Patrick Carland on Zen Pencils and an orgy of hate.
Ng Suat Tong on Ed Brubaker’s pallid noir, The Fade Out.
Chris Gavaler on Supergirl vs the Marvel cinematic universe.
Me on the Before Watchmen debacle.
mouse says, yep, furry is about sex.
Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics from the end of 1949, including EC.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At the New Republic I wrote about how we need to do away with the term Human trafficking.
At the Guardian I wrote about why a Die Hard origin story is dumb.
At the LA Times I said you should let your kids watch screens already.
At Playboy I got to write about Carpenter’s The Thing and male paranoia about dissolving into orifice-laden ichor.
At the new website the Establishment, I wrote about
—racism and killing women in Narcos.
—Ex Machina, the Perfect Guy, and how it’s more highbrow to have women who aren’t real.
At Splice Today I wrote that
—everyone wants to kill baby Hitler.
—someone other than journalists should moderate debates.
Other Links
Josephine at Tits and Sass on Zola, social media and sex work horror stories.
Arthur Chu on the huge mess around the gaming panels at SXSW.
Daniel Larison on the GOP debates.
Emma Paling on Wikipedia’s hostility to women.
Katherine St. Asaph on how it’s okay to compare Joanna Newsome to other female performers.
You mistakenly said Domhnall Gleeson played Nathan and Oscar Isaac played Caleb in your Ex Machina piece. It was actually the other way around.
Otherwise, excellent piece!