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Written and Illustrated by Mattie Lubchansky Published by Pantheon Graphic Library   Mattie Lubchansky’s Simplicity is ambitious. It is variously a dystopian speculative fiction, a meditation on community and autonomy, a queer utopian fantasy, and a critique of capitalism all rolled into one. The visual style is clean and emotionally… Read more »

The Roman Empire lasted for nearly 1500 years. HBO’s Rome couldn’t make it to its third season. Like Firefly and Deadwood, it’s part of a rare cohort of prestige series from the early 2000s whose reputation rests entirely on a handful of episodes. A very large handful. Twenty years after… Read more »

by Mark Voger Published by TwoMorrows   Based on his earlier books, including Monster Mash, Groovy, and Holly Jolly, I’m fairly convinced that author Mark Voger is an alternate world version of me. Growing up, he and I seem to have had all the same obsessions as far as television,… Read more »

I may be the only person in the world who wasn’t head over heels for this film. I tried and tried and even watched it again for this review. As many times as I give this movie a shot (this being the third viewing) I can’t help see the flaws… Read more »

DC Comics and Marvel Comics are charging into the digital frontier with a bold new phase of the historic DC/Marvel crossover initiative that began earlier this year with the announcement and subsequent publication of Batman/Deadpool #1 by DC (November 19) and Deadpool/Batman #1 by Marvel (September 17). This week, the… Read more »

  Fredrick Forsyth’s 1971 debut thriller The Day of the Jackal is one of the greatest works of “airport literature” ever made. The book’s very clever gimmick was that it began as historical fiction: detailing the conception of a real plot by far-right French terrorists to hire a professional assassin… Read more »

I saw the revival of RAGTIME a few weeks back. This was the second revival. I’d seen the original, and liked it, although to be honest, it lumbered a bit. The first revival was years ago, from the Kennedy Center, and it was brilliant; but, unlike the current iteration, it… Read more »

Written and Illustrated by Fletcher Hanks Edited by Paul Karasik Published by Fantagraphic Books   To say Fletcher Hanks was a unique comic book creator is putting it mildly. There have always been “schools” of comic art. Many of the early comics artists, for instance, channeled Hal Foster or Alex… Read more »

“One Battle After Another”, the latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, debuts Digitally at home today, November 14. From Warner Bros. Pictures comes “One Battle After Another,” written, directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Academy Award and BAFTA winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio… Read more »

“Make the bad thing OK, and there’s no guilt…” Love hurts. Especially when you are thrown through a designer table and smashed into an aquarium!  Co-written by stars Michael Angelo Corvino (who also directs) and Kyle Marvin, Splitsville is a magnificently dark new independent comedy film about marriage, friendship and the… Read more »