The first horror in "Feat of Clay" arrives in a mirror, long before any clay. Batman: The Animated Series opened its first multi-part origin with a washed-up actor whose face had stopped working for him, not the Joker. Here's why…
Read the full piece →
Twenty-one states now have some flavor of anti-drag legislation on the books. Read the bills. The thing they're actually criminalizing is not what you think it is.
Read the full piece →
Last summer's Superman did the only thing the character has ever asked of him: he took the side of the people who were being told they didn't belong.…
Read the full piece →
Batman Beyond opens with one of the saddest images in animation: Bruce Wayne, brittle and alone, finally outmatched by a body that won't do the thing he taught…
Read the full piece →
Half Man arrived this spring. The anti-hero era never ended; it just learned to look at itself.
Read the full piece →
A skinny twenty-something photographs himself nearly dying, walks five blocks to the only buyer in town, and gets lowballed by a man who profits from his peril. The…
Read the full piece →
Critical reading is civic self-defense, and we keep treating it like an elective.
Read the full piece →
High art, low art, and why both of those categories are made up.
Read the full piece →Tell me about the brand, the audience, or the weird idea you can't stop thinking about. I write back within 48 hours.