On HU

Featured Archive Post: Kinukitty on writing Stevie Nicks fan fic as a nine year old.

Chris Gavaler on Frankenstein superheroes.

Me on Marge Piercy’s He, She, and It and the virtues of heterogenous apocalypse. (This was a Patreon supported post, so, if you like it, consider contributing.)

Me on the awesome doomy death and spiritual torment of Immolation.

We were off for pray for woodstock day.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates for comics from summer 1950 (lots of EC.)
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about the documentary Killing Them Safely and how tasers escalate violence.

At the Establishment I wrote about how spewing racism isn’t braver than protesting it, and neither are part of a culture of fear.

At Ravishly I wrote about how Mockingjay can’t imagine non-violence.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Kelela, Girlyboi, and how R&B has always been everything.

—all the cultural journalists binge watching Jessica Jones.

—how Iron Man won’t save Jessica Jones.
 
Other Links

Terrell Jermaine Starr on how Ben Carson inspired him as a kid.

Mojo has the first year end best of list. Dylan, Keith Richards, Richard Thompson *and* David Gilmour? That’s a lot of fogeys on there.

And another example of political correctness run amok.
 

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Susan Kirtley praises Lynda Barry.

Me with a couple of hello songs for Adele.

Ng Suat Tong on Frazetta’s racist porn.

Chris Gavaler asks if Katniss Everdeen is a superhero.

Roy T. Cook on She-Hulk’s gender presentation.

Kael Salad on being a teacher and talking to students about pop culture you don’t like.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates for comics in early 1950; lots of EC here.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Playboy I wrote about

—why Bernie Sanders’ focus on private prisons is a distraction.

—the WFA getting rid of the HP Lovecraft statue, and why they should honor Octavia Butler instead.

At the Guardian I wrote about

—imperial idiocy in Narcos and Our Brand Is Crisis.

—Supergirl and how women aren’t allowed to enjoy superpowers.

At the Establishment I wrote about Britney, Taylor Swift, and selling your body vs. selling your soul.

On Splice Today I wrote about—

—how Katha Pollitt is happy to forgive mistakes of transphobes, less willing to forgive mistakes of trans activists.

—the Walking Dead, Spectre, and whether you should show the zombies mercy.

GOP lies about the economy and why many people don’t see them as lies.
 
Other Links

While I was sitting in the very same room with her, Tara Burns wrote up this interview with Margaret Cho.

From a bit back, this is a great piece by Dorian Linsky on the efforts to ban Birth of a Nation.

Zoe Quinn made a Lovecraft vs. Hitler quote game.
 

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Kathryn Vanarendonk on metadialogue and Fringe.

Ng Suat Tong on Adrian Tomine’s disappointing career.

Chris Gavaler on is forthcoming book on superheroes, and Lesley Wheeler’s forthcoming book of poetry.

Philip Smith on translating Shakespeare to modern English, for better and worse.

mouse on the sexiness of Tony the Tiger.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics from the beginning of 1950 (EC gets rolling.)
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Guardian I wrote about slave Leia and sexual confusion. (the commenters really hated this one.)

At Playboy I wrote about how James Bond would kill Edward Snowden.

At Quartz I wrote about Vesper Lynd and how Bond could have gotten better if interesting female leads were allowed.

At the Establishment I wrote about:

—C.S. Lewis’ treatment of women in his fiction.

—how criminalizing her profession wouldn’t protect Kesha from sexual abuse.

—Birth of a Nation and superhero narratives.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Clinton’s gratuitous and awful support for the death penalty.

—how polls make us less informed about the presidential race.

—how the Trump is sad because the media loves Ben Carson.

At the Chicago Reader I wrote about psychedelic rockers Bright Light Social Hour.

At Pitchfork I did a playlist of songs that say Hello (in honor of Adele.)
 
Other Links

Matt Breunig on Clinton’s crappy record on poverty.

Bond being terrible to women by the numbers.

Anne Theriault on how repurposing tweets is not journalism.
 

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.

—Rubio may be hurt by racism.

—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.
 

Wonder Woman News

Nell Minow interviewed me at HuffPost about Wonder Woman and bondage.

On HU

Featured Archive Post: James Romberger on Sammy Harkham.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates for comics in early 1948.

Me on Foxy Brown, The Descent, rape, revenge, and race.

Chris Gavaler on the problems with superhero marriages.

Kim O’Connor on why Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther won’t save comics.

Me on Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible, moral structure, and immoral style.

Me enthusing about Nirvana’s Freak Puke.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the New Republic I argued that liberals shouldn’t frame contraception as an anti-poverty measure.

At Playboy I wrote about how xkcd is awesome.

At Vice I wrote about the new Muppets and Meet the Feebles, and how viscerally disturbing muppet sex is.

At Quartz I asked, what would “Foucault” say about “first-person” essays.

At Splice Today

—I wrote about how everyone is wrong about Trump. Yes. Even you.

—I argued that the internet doesn’t care about harassment.
 
Other Links

Elizabeth Bruenig on why many unwed American teen girls want to have children.

Heidi MacDonald on harassment in the comics industry.

Ijeoma Oluo on women of color and the struggle for reproductive rights.