On HU

Me on Sean Collins and the cliquishness of HU.

Me on Source Code and the mainstreaming of Philip K. Dick.

Domingos Isabelinho on Marcos Mendes.

Subdee on Araki Hirohiko’s Rohan at the Louvre. (part 1; part 2)

Melinda Beasi on the Bechdel Test and Nana.

Me on the off-putting self-referentiality of Godard’s “Band of Outsiders.”

Me on the slick repulsiveness of Minority Report.

Richard Cook on the checkered history of Batman on screen.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice Today I ask experts for their recommendations on the best detective fiction.

Again at Splice I talk about Total Recall and how Philip K. Dick anticipates his own remaking.

And finally at Splice, I praise Co la’s sublime future-past electronica.
 
Other Links

Craig Fischer on Jonah Hex and All-Star Western.

Robert Stanley Martin on the Help.
 

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Jason Overby on the Concerns of Comics.

We’re very sad to say that Erica Friedman is retiring as a columnist here at HU. Her goodbye post is here. Be sure to check her out at her own place as well.
 
On HU

I talk about homoeroticism in the Big Sleep.

I responded to Dan Nadel’s editorial about the unundergroundness of Kickstarter.

Eric Berlatsky on Dark Knight, Spider-Man, and Avengers films.

Matthias Wivel on Degas, motion, time and comics.

L. Nichols on reacting to comics.

Kinukitty on celebrity news and Stephen Ira Beatty.

Peter Little on the Dark Knight and the crisis of the ruling class.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Atlantic I talk about Om and extreme new age metal.

At Splice I talk about Mitt Romney’s tour of lesser nations.
 

And also at Splice, I talk about Toya’s great forgotten album.
 
Other Links

Melinda Beasi on privilege and loving yaoi.

Slate on the evils of anonymous comments.

And, for contrast, an article about how real names don’t increase civility.

Alyssa Rosenberg with a lovely piece on Doonesbury.

Interview with Anthony Heilbut about gayness and gospel.

News

I finished a first draft of my Wonder Woman book. Lots of work left to go, but it seemed worth noting….
 
On HU

Featured Archive Post: Tom Crippen on Michael Corleone as Mary Sue.

I panned DC’s New 52.

I wrote about Nick Black’s super-awesome urine recycling alien.

Subdee explained Homestuck, the metatext of doom.

Kailyn Kent on comics in the age of mechanical reproduction.

I made a twee faery folk download.

Ben Saunders critiques the ideological critiques of superheroes.

I talked about Dara Birnbaum’s influential Wonder Woman video art.

Vom Marlowe looked at DMP’s online manga offerings.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice Today I talk about gun control and politicization.

And also at Splice I explain why a NYRB writer is not the person to ask about writing.
 
Other Links

The LARB reviews the new David Wojnarowicz biography.

Inebriated Spook on why we shouldn’t blame the manic pixie dream girls.

Eric Berlatsky reviews Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester’s Arguing Comics.

This made me feel better about shopping at Amazon.

Jezebel on listening to rapists on Reddit.
 

On HU

I talk about Quentin Blake’s beautiful “The Story of the Dancing Frog.”

In our Featured Archive Post, Alex Buchet discusses Herge’s struggles with race.

Ng Suat Tong on Joe Sacco’s Journalism.

Alex Buchet on his experiments with spoiler technology.

Robert Stanley Martin on Godard’s Alphaville.

Isaac Butler stages a brutal gritty cage match between The Wire and Johnie To’s Election films.

I stage a cage match between Al Columbia and the electronica of Taragana Pyjarama; the winner receives the postmodern sublime.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At The Atlantic I review the documentary Queen of Versailles.

At Esquire I look at some lesser known Bat villains.

At Splice Today I compare the Bain Scandal to the Jeremiah Wright Scandal.

Also at Splice I review Tommy Flander’s forgotten sixties hippie folk masterpiece The Moonstone.

 
Other Links

Ben Winters (that’s my cousin!) talks about his new apocalyptic detective novel.

The Guardian on a possible Chicago teacher’s strike.

Alex Pareene takes down Aaron Sorkin.

CBR with a really nice piece on Wonder Woman’s lasso.

James Fallows on Americans and guns.
 

On HU

Featured Archive Post: I talk about the weirdness that is Garfield’s Nine Lives.

I write about seeing yourself as Rogue seeing yourself in Lacan

James Romberger on comics by Meskin, Johnson, Strnad/Corben and more.

Caroline Small on why David Lowry is a crappy spokesperson for copyright policy.

From the archive, Kelly Thompson on Rogue.

Richard Cook with a history of early superheroines in covers.

Marguerite Van Cook on the postmodern sublime in comics.

A downloadable mix of jazzy fuzoid.

I talk about Carla Speed McNeil, Anna Freud, and beating fantasies.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice Today I review Merle Haggard’s last great album.

Also at Splice I argue that more books doesn’t mean better schools. Also, a bonus drawing of an alien waiting for the bus by my son.
 
Other Links

Brigid Alverson profiled.

Jessica Valenti on the difference between funny and unfunny rape jokes.

Mary McCarthy speaks out for lazy parents everywhere.

And Alyssa Rosenberg dubs me an honorary hypersensitive lady.
 

On HU

Susie Bright and the haters.

Caroline Small on gender and the unreliable narrator in Ghost World.

Featured Archive Post: Marguerite Van Cook on comics and the sublime.

Allan Haverholm on language and “comics.

Nicolas Labarre with a essay in comics form on 2000 Maniacs!

Connor Delaney on composition in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.

I talk about gender essentialism, brokeback Catwoman, and the origin of the world.

Vom Marlowe on the virtues of Mercedes Lackey’s sparkly horses.

I recommend some Anthony Heilbut gospel recordings.

And finally we did a bunch of posts on Neil Gaiman this week. I review Gaiman’s shitty Neverwhere. I talked about Neil Gaiman’s Best American comics and Sandman’s evaporating legacy. Mercer Finn on some of the limitations of Sandman. James Romberger and Robert Stanley Martin talk about Gaiman and the art in Sandman.

 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Slate I review Anthony Heilbut’s marvelous new book The Fan Who Knew Too Much.

At Splice I explain that Bill Maher is a bigoted dick.

At Splice Today I review a great new album of plant-worshipping black metal by Botanist.

 
Other Links

C.T. May takes down Woody Allen.

Erica Jong on Huffington Post’s evil business model.

Bert Stabler with a lovely piece on language.

A long interview with Melinda Beasi.