On HU
In our Featured Archive Post, Kailyn Kent looks at a Lyonel Feininger exhibit.

Ng Suat Tong on Hisashi Sakaguchi’s graphic novel about the Zen monk Ikkyu.

Robert Stanley Margin breaks Crumb’s work down into six periods.

I talk about Stanley Hauerwas’ contention that Ameirca worships war.

Ben Saunders wonders whether anyone has ever really read Action Comics #1.

Darryl Ayo Brathwaite on the failure of morality among creators working on Before Watchmen.

And finally I’ve had a weeklong Metal Apocalypse, featuring articles and reviews of blackened death doom.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice Today I review Bonnie Raitt’s new album.
 
Other Links

Tucker Stone on the controversial new Wonder Woman, among other things.

David Brothers on Before Watchmen, the Avengers movie and ethical rot.
 

News

I’m pleased to announce that Kailyn Kent will be joining us as a regular columnist. At the moment, she’s planning for her column to focus on the links between comics and the fine art world. Kailyn’s written several posts for us already, and we’re very excited to have her appear here regularly.

In other news…I’ve mentioned this here and there already, but thought I’d semi-officially let folks know that I’ve gotten a book contract to write about the William Marston/Harry Peter Wonder Woman. As is always the case with these things, it’ll be several years before it’s written and available — but you can start hoarding your pennies now, I suppose! In the meantime, if you can’t wait for WW copy, you can read my past posts on her here. And we’re also going to have a roundtable in the beginning of May celebrating my having blogged my way through all of the Marston/Peter WW.

And…we got our first link from the Dish! To Michael Arthur’s Kpop article (I’m a fan of Andrew Sullivan’s, so I was excited.)

 
On HU

In our Featured Archive Post I talk about Art Young and the black humorist as Christ.

I talked about Marston’s vs. Azzarello’s Amazons.

Erica Friedman talked about the big and small of conventions, from the enormous Comiket in Tokyo to the tiny Yaycon in the Netherlands.

Richard Cook expressed some skepticism about Downton Abbey.

I talk about incest in Twilight and the Hunger Games.

I posted a download mix of Neil-Young_Like music.

Eric Berlatsky on Gilbert Hernandez, fetishes, and phallic mothers.

Eric Berlatsky on Jaime Hernandez, fetishes, and phallic mothers.

Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Washington Times I talk about the movie Bully and the case for homeschooling.

At the Atlantic I review the strikingly crappy film Lockout.

At Splice I talk about Derbyshire and the right’s anti-anti-racism.

At Splice Today I discuss Neil Young and the black metal band Drudkh.
 
Other Links

Ms. magazine on Katniss as a nonsexualized action hero.

War mongering and atheism apparently go together now.

Alyssa Rosenberg with a really depressing story about the Obama administration harassing journalists.

Matte Harrison on the TV show Bones and birth.

David Olsen on how he learned to love Power Girl.
 

On HU

Featured Archive Post: James Romberger’s comic based on a Wallace Stevens poem.

Ng Suat Tong calls for nominations for best comics criticism and surveys the state of comics criticism.

I talk about romance and convention in Room With a View and The African Queen.

Vom Marlowe on the Canadian steampunk of Murdoch Mysteries.

Katherine Wirick on Rorschach as rape victim.

Michael Arthur on the mysterious joy of kpop.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice Today I review the lovely new Justin Townes Earle album.
 
Other Links

Charles Reece on the Hunger Games as Confederate fantasy.

Eric Cohen reviews Stanley Hauerwas’ new book on American militarism.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on black communities against violence.

Shaenon Garrity on the greatest cartoonists of our generation.

Alyssa Rosenberg on adults reading YA.

My brother got nominated for an Eisner!

Catholic high school kids for gay marriage in the teeth of their idiotic hierarchy.

Isaac Butler on gender balance in his syllabus.

Robert Stanley Martin on Gustave Flaubert.
 

On HU

Most of this week was devoted to our ongoing Locas Roundtable, with posts by Robert Stanley Martin, Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz, Jason Michelitch, and Corey Creekmur. We should have one more post on Monday to finish up.

Also a punk rock download mix.

And I did a post on fashion, sexuality, and superheroes.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice I have a post on death metal and bluegrass.

And also at Splice, a post on Lee Ranaldo’s crappy new album.
 
Other Links

Mahendra Singh on Moebius’ inking.

Christopher Priest with some really high quality sneering at contemporary sci-fi.

David Brothers on Trayvon Martin.

Craig Fischer on Taniguchi.
 

On HU

In our Featured Archive post this week, Caroline Small explained why Jaime Hernandez is (unfortunately) not like a soap opera.

I reviewed albums by two punk rock girl bands: Shonen Knife and Forever.

I reviewed a book about rock and the apocalypse and argued that rock realy is the devil’s music.

Most of this week was devoted to our ongoing Jaime Hernandez roundtable. This week we had posts by Marc Sobel, Derik Badman, James Romberger, and Richard Cook. You can see an index for the whole ongoing roundtable here.

And finally Monika Bartyzel explained why Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Xander Harris is a sexist ass.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice Today, I talk about trying and failing to vote for Romney in Illinois.
 
Other Links

Eli Zaretsky on Obama and the limits of reason.

A nice post on Chet Baker.

On defiling Corto Maltese.

Robert Stanley Martin and Tom Spurgeon talk about Watchmen, canons, and Calvin and Hobbes here and again here. As a bonus, Tom explains in some detail why he despises HU in general and me in particular.