-Art by Trico
Like any other backpack-toting American kid in the nineteen-nineties, the one thing I looked forward to each week (well, after TGIF) was Saturday morning cartoons. My absolute favorite show was X-Men The Animated Series which led to frequent trips to old, dusty comic shops to buy Series ...
Weirdos, Loners, and Mutants: How the Uncanny X-Men Taught Me How to Embrace the Outsider
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 6, 2016A Love Affair with the Colour Gray
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 9, 2016
Jean Arp, "Untitled (College with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)". 1917
"In Europe and America, grey is the color most associated with boredom, solitude and emptiness. It is associated with rainy days and winter.“ -Wikipedia ”Grey: Boredom“
”Grey is my favorite color“ -Counting Crows ”Mr. Jones“
I ...
Are Friends Electric? (Guest post by Gunwallace)
HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 29, 2016
“Well, are they?”
Gary Numan (and Tubeway Army) posed that question in 1979. These days it has more relevance that ever before.
“It's cold outside, and the paint's peeling offa my walls.”
As winter approaches in the Southern Hemisphere (winter is coming) my thoughts naturally turn a little ...
Captain America: Civil war.
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 3, 2016
It's that time of year again, the big blockbuster movies are coming and Marvels first movie of the year and contestant in this years superhero smack down is Captain America: Civil war.
Based on the massive Marvel crossover comic that saw Marvels superheroes taking sides over a controversial government ...
Character Arcs Part 2: Arcs in Sequels and Series featuring Iron Man
Banes at 12:00AM, March 24, 2016FEATURED COMIC --> Satan Ninja 198X
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 9, 2016 ]
Satanic Ninjas are after a magical item of power and a sexy space pirate bounty hunter is slaughtering alien monsters, meanwhile nerdy all American teen Eddie just wants a hot date for the high school prom!
This is a gorgeous pastiche/parody of all the best of the 1980s: heavy ...
Celebrating Black History Month: Chuck Clayton joins the Archie Gang
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 5, 2016
Last year for Black History Month I profiled Black Panther, the first black superhero (see that newspost here). This year I’m sticking with the black comic character theme with a mini-history of Chuck Clayton, one of the first non-white characters in Archie comics.
These days Chuck is an established ...
Moving the Rock
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 25, 2016
The years following my college graduation, the most frequent questions asked by my peers and older adults were: “What did you major in?” and “What do you do?” Initially, the questions would bother me because I could not give a direct answer to the second question without feeling inadequate. What ...