We were rooting for you! We were all rooting for you! – Tyra Banks, America’s Next Top Model Season 4, Episode 7 (2005) Man-Eaters is, bafflingly, best described as an interesting failure. The idea seemed like a license to print money when it first got floated. The creative team behind Marvel’s polarizing Mockingbird miniseries:…
Transmyscira: Time Dies Screaming in SUPREME BLUE ROSE
We discover possible pasts at the same time as we feel the opening up of possible futures. – Peter Wollen, Raiding The Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth Century Culture We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. – Marshall McLuhan If the zoo bans me from hollering at…
Transmycira: thank u, nextwave
Now that we’ve conclusively left 2018, the longest year in recorded human history, the passage of time feels more febrile than perhaps ever before. Anything before 2018 feels like an eternity, but 2006 — the year Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen’s nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. debuted — is difficult to metabolize as being over a…
Transmyscira: The Decision, ALL-NEW WOLVERINE, and X-23
LeBron James is leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers, effectively his hometown team, for the second time in his NBA career to wear #23 for the Los Angeles Lakers. Laura Kinney, after taking up the mantle of Wolverine after her “father’s” death, is going back to X-23 for the debut of her eponymous new series. Coincidence? Probably,…
Transmyscira: Comics, Culture War, and “¡No Pasarán!”
Ten guys jump one, what a man You fight each other, the police state wins Stab your backs when you trash our halls Trash a bank if you’ve got real balls – Dead Kennedys, Nazi Punks Fuck Off In a since automatically deleted tweet, Vox journalist and podcaster Matt Yglesias replied to the perceived…
Protected: Transmyscira: The Guy With The Elephant Tattoo
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Transmycira: ARCHIVAL QUALITY Is Worth Giving Up Avocado Toast For
Probably my favourite quote about criticism as a discipline is Peter O’Toole as Anton Ego’s closing monologue in Ratatouille. His ode to the discovery and defense of the new as the highest calling of the critic is what I try as much as possible to use as my guiding principle, but the discovery and defense…
Transmyscira: VAMPIRONICA Is One Bite Forward, Two Steps Back
Archie Comics’ grand foray into the direct market to produce hip comics that break from their reputation as impulse buys at grocery store checkouts has a problem. They don’t really hire women creators very much, which is an odd problem to have for a company whose characters are the first thing that jump to most…
Transmyscira: CALEXIT Moves at The Speed of Now
Yes, the arrival of this year’s Amancay Nahuelpan/Matteo Pizzolo comic is a great opportunity to dunk on the pair for only turning in an average of a single collaborative issue a year. But Calexit #2, in addition to the continuation of a must read dystopian nightmare set about five minutes into the future, is also…
Transmyscira: The Second Amendment Doesn’t Apply to the Fourth Wall
I can draw a perfect replica of a Desert Eagle handgun from memory, and I’ve been able to do it since before either Snatch or The Matrix came out. The unique L-shaped slide, the weird, bulbous outline of the barrel that looks like a water balloon held by the knot, the whole thing. I know…