Canadian comics creator Jeff Lemire is a challenging indie crossover. Having made some of the most independent titles of the past decade, he’s now taking on the post-apocalypse for DC […]
Shakespeare transcends time and media, mostly because creatives can’t stop remixing his legendary language across time and media. Julie Taymor’s up next with The Tempest, starring the always captivating Helen […]
“At first we thought it was a hoax; sadly it’s not. The melting ice caps are the fuse. The trapped methane released into the atmosphere is the bomb.”
Digital comics are ascendant, and it won’t be long until they replace the majority of print comics, which are fast becoming earnings losers as well as environmental wastes of space […]
Unable to shoulder the burden, reality splintered and began to virally replicate the assassination and its effects across media, slowly replacing that reality along the way.
At last Hollywood is turning back to Daniel Clowes, one of indie comics’ crossover titans.
Mike Mignola’s paranormal mystery Hellboy is one of the finest comics franchises of all time, and its sidekick spin-off Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense is no slouch either. Ask […]
The visual meditations on sustainability and overload evoke World War II–era posters that inspired the campaign. The posters can be torn out of the book and plastered somewhere useful.
Infamously risky but rewarding animator Peter Chung has finally made a film for everyone.
I’ll be totally honest with you. I never really thought much about the intricate working of the mundane razor industry. That is, until AlterNet asked me to look into it. […]
One of my favorite albums this year is Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest. “Desire Lines” is its best song, so thanks to AOL’s online music mag Spinner for giving Deerhunter the chance […]
Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure. But don’t tell that to loansharks at the World Bank.
AlterNet asked me to heckle ex-HP CEO and itinerant ideologist Carly Fiorina before the November election, in hopes of shedding some light on why should we make California suck even […]
The monstrosity rams its entire body down your throat, where its tentacles overtake your body while its crustacean-inspired head lodges inside your mouth.
Because he is unfairly lost to us now, all we have are mounting media replications to inform and console us.
I’ve been writing about the econopocalypse for years now, so news of robosigners executing thousands of baseless foreclosures on a conveyor belt to hell is not news to me. So […]
Responsibility for chemical security may be shared among federal, state and local governments, as well as the private sector. But right now they’re all epically failing us, which make us sitting ducks if there is a catastrophe.
Cartoon brainiac Genndy Tartakovsky revitalized American animation with anime-inspired knockouts like Samurai Jack and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Now he’s crashing mecha convention.
Seriously. The world has been flying blind while geopolitical and economic machinations rob them of their futures and accounts. And we’re going to lose our minds when Wikileaks pulls back […]
One of my favorite cinematic bands is Film School, who are not cinematic at all, band leader Greg Bertens once told me for Wired. My latest chat with Film School […]
Peter Jackson’s CGI-soaked fever dream of innocence and evil revolutionized blockbuster cinema in the early ’00s and made a zillion dollars to boot.
DC Comics’ mature imprint Vertigo is happy to stray from the spandex in three consecutive releases I recently spotlit over at Wired. But can they hang with pillars of the […]
David Lynch and Mark Frost’s indispensably surreal soap opera ripped apart television tradition as it riveted viewers with a ceaseless mix of dream-noir intrigue and persistent humor.
William Gibson’s new novel Zero History examines the 21st century’s techno-cultural fetishes with a deceptively simple directive: The future is now.
California is leading the way out of the enviropocalypse with the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Now a political bullet called Proposition 32 has been fashioned to kill it, […]
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