Poltergeist (2015) Director: Gil Kenan Writers: David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay), Steven Spielberg (story) Stars: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements Remakes are hard. Especially when you tackle a classic. But when I saw that Sam Raimi was a producer for the Poltergeist remake, I had, at least, a little hope that maybe, just maybe the remake…
Bug Girl: An Interview with The Last Cowboy’s Zoe Coughlin
Space. Aliens. Diverse women. Beautiful art. In The Last Cowboy, I’ve found one of my new favorite webcomics, AND I got to chat about it with the creator, Zoe Coughlin.
They Make Us Like Them: On Identity and Gentrification [SPOILERS]
I am a foreigner and an ethnic minority. I spent my entire childhood in the predominantly Asian-ethnic environment of Hawaii. My adulthood has played out so far in predominantly white regions and, within that, extremely white-dominated academic and professional fields; that’s what happens when you get into the humanities. Living among the white people of…
Politics are Dreddful, Art is Active; Choose Your Representative
I’m not a 2000 AD reader, exactly. I’d kill a man for Slaine: The Horned God, I liked the Dredd trades my old local library had, and I’m pretty into the Judge Anderson stories I picked up at Thought Bubble last year, but I’ve never been a weekly purchaser. I tried for a while more than…
Con Diaries: Local Scenes, Balcony Views, and Why I’m a True Believer
Over this winter, Andy Oliver has been publishing State of the Small Press Nation, a look at the sudden abundance of cartoonist shows around Britain, wondering what that swell in numbers means–for the exhibitors and for the scene in general. It’s interesting stuff with views and experiences “from prominent small press creators to DIY culture…
Swallowing Your Privilege: Writing and Making a Living
Privilege is a hard pill to swallow, especially growing up in the mythos of Puritanical-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-idle-hands-are-the-devil’s-plaything-etc. America. But, like the giant antibiotics I’m taking right now for an upper respiratory infection, you have to swallow those enormous pills, all of them. Okay, the metaphor may be clumsy, but I keep getting those damn horse pills lodged…
Multifarious: Shel Silverstein, Magnets, and Fauvists, or What the Hell is Art?
Last month, Vulture ran a piece where eight museum directors of such ivy-league museums as Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, etc. shared their favorite pieces of art. It got me thinking about how we come around to art, and as always, what the hell art is anyway. Obviously, we at WWAC have a pretty…
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Firm Feelings on the Batfamily: Jason Todd is the Key to Everything
Over the last few years, I’ve been thinking a lot about A Death in the Family, Jason Todd, and their role in Batcanon. It’s generally agreed that Jason was a so-so Robin and that he’s much improved as Red Hood. However, I’m going to take that general agreement a step further and state that not…
Game Review: The Deep Forest
The Deep Forest is a role-playing game based on the idea that a group of monsters have driven off the humans and reclaimed their land. They have one year before the Heroes will return, and the monster’s time will end. Until then, it is the monster’s opportunity to make the area their own.
A Trip Down Fear Street: Silent Night 1, 2, and 3
Due to some holiday delay, A Trip Down Fear Street took longer than intended, so I crammed all three of the Fear Street superchillers Silent Night 1, 2, and 3 into a single review. Tagline Silent Night: Happy holidays – you’re dead! Silent Night 2: Jingle Bells – Santa kills! Silent Night 3: ‘Tis the…
Britain, Books, Politics: Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan Said “The Ban on Sending Books to Prisoners Was Always an Absurd Policy”
If you had to hide drugs, would you hide them in a book? I wouldn’t. And if I was relying on drugs as either a balm or a currency during time spent in prison, would you say “well the exact thing she doesn’t need in her life is books?” No! Because you aren’t a bonehead….
Concrete Park and Art: Puryear Purloins Painters’ Perfections
It was the cover that caught me. Concrete Park: You Send Me Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander Dark Horse Comics October 1st, 2014 Talking to Bleeding Cool about his “artist’s journey,” Tony Puryear, illustrator and co-writer of Concrete Park, said: I majored in art at Brown [University], loving Gauguin but doing very indulgent, Morris Louis-inspired color field paintings….