Ghost in the Shell: A Case Study in Bad Adaptation
This week I wanted to take a slight detour from my usual range of topics. While I generally cover [...]
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Neil Gaiman: Intertextuality as an Artform
It’s a commonly accepted fact that we live in a world of recyclable entertainment. There are [...]
Zack Snyder’s Watchmen and the Authoritarian Aesthetic
Watchmen, besides its much-lauded status as a seminal work for “serious” superhero comics, is [...]
Political Allegories, Serendipity or Prophecy?
No one can deny that the past year has been rough, politically speaking (to put it mildly). Trump, [...]
Does Every Comic Book Adaptation Have to Be an Action Movie?
The 21st century has been far kinder to the geekdom than when I was 10. I recall a time when I was [...]