On HU
Featured Archive Post: Caroline Small on Ivan Bilibin’s Russian Folktale illustrations.
Philip Smith on the thoughtful messiness of Serial.
Chris Gavaler on Darth Vader, superhero.
Chris Gavaler analyzes page layout and character in the Walking Dead #1.
Links to all my Star Wars articles.
Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics from early 1951.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At Quartz I wrote about prosecutorial overreach, mass imprisonment, and the campaign against Anita Alvarez.
At Playboy I got to list the best albums of the year (that no one else puts on their best of lists.)
At Pacific Standard I argued that children should have the right to vote.
At the Establishment I wrote about:
—The City on the Edge of Forever and how everyone wants to kill baby Hitler.
—my giant insane smelly greyhound.
At Splice Today I wrote about
—how the Force Awakens probably isn’t so great.
At the Chicago Reader I reviewed the classic Chicago death metal of Usurper.
Other Links
Angus Johnston on why college protest isn’t a threat to free speech, and isn’t always civil.
Daniel Larison on our support for the awful war in Yemen, and how no one even mentions it.
You were some kind of prophet on that Splice Today Star Wars article. It was okay….
Hah; well, I think you’re an outlier, as far as I can tell. Everyone seems to love it…though the reviews explaining why people love it haven’t really convinced me it’s any good.