On HU

Featured Archive Post: Kathryn Vanarendonk on metadialogue and Fringe.

Ng Suat Tong on Adrian Tomine’s disappointing career.

Chris Gavaler on is forthcoming book on superheroes, and Lesley Wheeler’s forthcoming book of poetry.

Philip Smith on translating Shakespeare to modern English, for better and worse.

mouse on the sexiness of Tony the Tiger.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics from the beginning of 1950 (EC gets rolling.)
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Guardian I wrote about slave Leia and sexual confusion. (the commenters really hated this one.)

At Playboy I wrote about how James Bond would kill Edward Snowden.

At Quartz I wrote about Vesper Lynd and how Bond could have gotten better if interesting female leads were allowed.

At the Establishment I wrote about:

—C.S. Lewis’ treatment of women in his fiction.

—how criminalizing her profession wouldn’t protect Kesha from sexual abuse.

—Birth of a Nation and superhero narratives.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Clinton’s gratuitous and awful support for the death penalty.

—how polls make us less informed about the presidential race.

—how the Trump is sad because the media loves Ben Carson.

At the Chicago Reader I wrote about psychedelic rockers Bright Light Social Hour.

At Pitchfork I did a playlist of songs that say Hello (in honor of Adele.)
 
Other Links

Matt Breunig on Clinton’s crappy record on poverty.

Bond being terrible to women by the numbers.

Anne Theriault on how repurposing tweets is not journalism.