Loser City

Comics, shows, a magazine -- we aim to fail big.

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Today’s out of context comics panel features the aptly named Speed McGee. Art by Jackson Guice from The Flash (vol. 2)

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We’re generally fans of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ collaborations, but their new Image series Kill or Be Killed strikes us as uninspired, petulant and hamfisted. Read Nick Hanover’s review here.

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Today’s out of context comics panel is in honor of Suicide Squad, out this week. We’re going to assume that it unfortunately does not involve this scene. Art by Luke McDonnell

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Despite Joelle Jones’ appealing, pin-up style art, Lady Killer 2 #1 is boring and uninspired. Check out Elizabeth Brei’s advance review of the issue here.

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Over in Fossil Records, Chris Jones wrote about My Mine’s lost Italo Disco classic STONE and how it’s perfect for a party where everybody is wearing pink leisure suits.

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We’ve been making badges for various comics journalism achievements, so what better way to start than with “Blocked by Dan Slott?”

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We put together our picks for the Best Comics of 2015. What do you think? Who would you pick?

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We compiled the Best K-Pop of 2015. You know you want to check it out.

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We spoke with Ed Brisson about his excellent new Image Comics series The Violent, which is due out next week. Ed had some great thoughts on being a true comics professional, how we as a society encourage crime and lots of other things. Check it out!

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Tom Speelman was impressed with the balance of action and character development in the newest episode of Supergirl, “Livewire.”

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Now presenting the greatest moment in the history of Loser City.

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We covered the latest issue of Irene, an ambitious, challenging zine full of incredible artists and perspectives. Marta Chudolinska’s “Genesis,” pictured above, opens the collection with a clever Beckett-like vignette.

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Nick Hanover covered Pete Toms’ impressive new work The Linguists and found it to be a powerful but humorous take on communication problems in the 21st century.

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We loved Turbo Kid at SXSW this year and we’re super excited that it’s now playing in theatres across the country. We think it’s a post-apocalyptic splatterfest with a whole lot of heart, an inheritor to the Shaun of the Dead horror comedy throne. So go check it out!

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Mark Stack and Rafael Gaitain’s Ballin’ on Ballers discussions on the first season of Ballers are now wrapped up and they went out with style, delving into daddy issues, brain injury plots that could have been and, uh, The Rock’s butt.

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Today’s Anatomy of a Page has Austin Lanari discussing 25 panel sequences in Joshua Hood, Matthew Rosenberg and Patrick Kindlon’s We Can Never Go Home, specifically this one from issue 4, page 12, where a tense conversation in a car is bookended by mirrored perspectives of our protagonists.

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This week’s Yellowed Pages looks back at The Residents’ Freak Show anthology, a partner piece to their game and album of the same name that was put out by Dark Horse in 1992 and featured work from Charles Burns, John Bolton, Kyle Baker and Brian Bolland, whose “Harry the Head” is shown above.