Unemployed Negativity

Every adaptation mining the vast troves of memory that we recall as our lives as readers of books and comics and watchers of film and televi...

  It has taken me a long time to write a follow up to my first post on Bizarro World.  That is because once you begin to think about the str...

  Recently in a bit of odd exhaustion and insomnia I watched, or rather rewatched, the movie Blue Thunder. In case you have not seen it I wi...

  From The Department of Truth by James Tynion and Martin Simmonds I have not been to my local comic book shop in a year. I went once in the...

All panels and art from Tim Truman Scout, Eclipse comics During the odd grifter's interregnum of the last few weeks a particular image c...

  Horkheimer and Adorno had to invent the neologism the "culture industry" to criticize the subordination of culture to commerce, ...

In the end of Cinema, Volume One: The Movement Image writes the following about the demise of the movement image: Certainly people co...

  Images from the short lived Black Panther and the Crew In all of the various attempts to produce and reproduce Spinozism, creat...

In Jameson's essay on The Wire there is an interesting digression (and in Jameson it is mainly the digressions which are interesti...

T he observation that the contemporary superhero film is an allegory for the war on terror, like pointing out that Godzilla is about fea...

Brian Vaughn and Marcos Martin's The Private Eye  is a web only comic that has a critical view of the internet. Set in the not too d...

Having written something about the first two Iron Man films on this blog in the past I felt obligated to write at least something abou...

Illustration from Sean Howe's tumblr A combination of vacation travel reading and gifts made it so I read Dan Hassler-Forest'...

All illustrations of this post from 4 Color Process.   This review begins with a thesis, which is not a hypothesis since it is not m...

I did not think that I was going to write anything about The Avengers. This is partly because I am too busy writing, book writing, to re...

Lets begin with a story, I decided to read Yves Citton's Mythocratie  because I was interested in his reading of Spinoza that I enco...