News

My ebook, Your Favorite Superhero Sucks is out on Monday. You can preorder now!

And Sean Kleefeld reviews the book at his site.

Patreon

For $2/mo subscribers I posted a long draft essay about vampire genocide, Buffy, and Twilight.

And I immediately started tinkering with that essay; here’s a new bit where I talk about I Am Legend.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Lithub I wrote about Kate Beaton’s King Baby and how comics are still for kids. (Image above is not from the book, but a related cartoon from Beaton’s website.)

At the Establishment I interviewed Miriam Libicki about her new collection of graphic essays, Israel and Jewish identity.

At the Guardian I wrote about Alan Moore and seeing life as a plant.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—psychedlia from Kikagaku Moyo and Tvlpa.

—Red Dawn and white Americans longing to be the underdog.
 

 
On Patreon

I wrote about Interview With the Vampire and toothy patriarchs.

A little teaser for my essay on vampire genocide.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Chronicle I wrote about how I’ll probably never write another university press book.

At Playboy:

—I interviewed Jessica Luther about sexual violence in college sports.

—I wrote about Melania Trump and immigration.
 
At Splice Today I wrote about

—the nightmare of unpacking.

—the Day After and apocalypse as tv movie.

—Sinead O’Connor—more relevant than Nirvana.

At the Chicago Reader I wrote about the P.S. Eliot retrospective.
 

 
Patreon

For $2/mo partrons I wrote about

—charismatic bullied vampires and Let the Right One In.

—why Mark Millar’s Nemesis is bad.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At LARB I wrote about how academics and journalists are in the same neoliberal hell. Why can’t we all just get along?

At Quartz I wrote about War Dogs and ignoring war as you bomb people.

At Religion Dispatches I wrote about how our love of disaster makes us less safe.

At Splice Today I wrote about the great 1967 film The President’s Analyst and how politics will eat your brain.