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WHEN HALF-SPENT It’s the homeless man in the Santa outfit screaming “Make it straight!” who wakes her up, not cop knocking on the car window. “Make it straight!” he howls at the cars as they blast down Fourth Avenue, near the place where Brooklyn runs into the sea. “Make it straight! Make it straight! This
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I adore New York City. I love folding a slice of reheated pizza in half and eating it on the uncrowded subway in the middle of the night because I’ve stayed too late at work. I love the transvestite who loudly discusses the people who body-checked her on the way into the bodega as though
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Grant Morrison and Frazer Irving’s Annihliator. it’s so good, you guys.
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An exclamation of horror broke from the painter’s lips as he saw in the dim light the hideous face on the canvas grinning at him. There was something in its expression that filled him with disgust and loathing. Good heavens! it was Dorian Gray’s own face that he was looking at! The horror, whatever it
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Robert Rauschenberg – Untitled (American Flag, Enough Is Enough), 1980 The American torture report is out as of yesterday. I am an American. My instinct, being a fairly strict Christian who for some reason still expects justice, is to clench my teeth against the inevitable onslaught of international condemnation that will come, justly, in the
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Amazing, amazing new book from Kurt Busiek, whom I adore, and Ben Dewey, whom I’d never heard of. Good job, Ben. It was called Tooth & Claw until like two weeks ago when they learned they’d screwed up the copyright search and had to change the name (it’s now called The Autumnlands. Don’t let that
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Tula Lotay’s Supreme: Blue Rose over at Image is my favorite book currently running for Nerd Reasons. She’s doing all kinds of great stuff with color separations and holy shit, Warren Ellis’s story is amazing, especially if you’re an Alan Moore fan who wept bitter tears after Supreme was canceled and then desecrated by Erik Larsen. Check
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It’s been a while since I posted some old-fashioned comic art, so here’s a particularly good cover from Bryan Talbot’s magnificent character-driven sci-fi extravaganza, Heart of the Empire. HotE is a sequel to The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, a much more experimental and weird book, but it stands alone both as a solo work and in the annals
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Lengthily subtweeting several of my favorite writers and thinkers here: So you know how, sometimes, you have that teacher who is a mean, rude snob and attracts to her all the mean, rude snobs in the class and makes clear how deeply she reviles anything base or low, and how she exclusively promotes the work
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