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Modest Mouse returns after eight years with an album that just barely satisfies, with exciting highs, crushing lows, and a lot of nothing in between.
I reviewed the new Modest Mouse record, which is okay but certainly a little dull.
“Exoortium,” August 8, 2011
A Deadshirt Webcomics Guide to: Alexander Swenson’s Bonne Fête Job Dog
Successful webcomics seem to be long-running and expansive by definition. The most revered narrative webcomics stay eternally fresh by rotating through an ever-increasing cast of characters and taking us on new adventures at the edge of a meticulously defined world, filling out yet more of the setting we love. Seeing a story unfold as it is drawn page-by-page and seeing the evolution of technique across years of storytelling are some of the greatest things that webcomics have given us as an emerging form. Much praise is heaped upon these titles—and rightfully so—but celebration of the succinct or the complete seems conspicuously absent from popular discourse.
Short stories seem to come and go in a relative blink when set alongside the towering archives of the great webcomic monoliths. Completed stories fade from view as the ones around them just keep going. As such, I’d like to bring attention to a webcomic that is both short (100+ pages in two years) and complete—one that deserves much more love and recognition—because while webcomics have cultivated a set of unique qualities that make the form truly special, there should still be space to discuss and love the webcomics that are merely comics on the web.
(Read more on Deadshirt)
LISA: Weird End of the World [Review]
Pop culture has an obsession with being “edgy,” whether it be through grittiness, hyperviolence, or manipulative melodrama. “Edgy,” as a term for describing somehow-exciting and somehow-different new art, has seemingly been drained of any positive connotations. It has become a word that’s to be used exclusively with a sarcastic tone, mocking the tryhards that would use it unironically to describe their supposedly daring and incisive new thing.
So what is LISA? A game with the unofficial subtitle of “The Painful RPG,” that touts a post-apocalyptic setting defined by amorality and violence, that features amputation and drug addiction as game mechanics—it’s edgy, certainly. But LISA is an effective reminder that “edgy” doesn’t always have to be said with an eyeroll and a scoff. Developer Dingaling has put in the effort to present a game that varies wildly in tone and charms, that does all it can to dodge the fatal one-note nature of so many other games that have tried and failed to claim edginess. LISA is a Venn diagram of “disturbing” and “silly” with a surprising amount of overlap, making its tangents purely into either side all the more effective.
(Read more on Deadshirt / rate this review on Steam)
The Interview: Freedom of Unfunny Speech [Review]
Every now and then, there comes along a movie that changes everything. These are typically known among scholars of cinema as “good” movies, or “interesting” movies, at the very least. Before ever being released in theaters, The Interview had sparked a new(!) conversation on free speech and censorship that certainly seemed to herald a great game-changer of a movie (starring James Franco and Seth Rogen, sure, but I will admit for all of us that we were more optimistic than usual). Everything about the movie’s road to release is now an important part of film history, from the Sony hack to the presidential reprimand that led to the movie’s sooner-than-anyone-expected digital distribution. We seem destined to talk about The Interview for a long while yet. Too bad, then, that it’s a boring piece of garbage.
At this point, we must set aside the political and cultural importance surrounding the movie’s existence. While this offscreen, meta-appeal of The Interview is all very neat, these conversations are already happening, and they are happening elsewhere. My goal here is to analyze this subpar comedy, which we have been forever cursed to remember, for what it is, and why we weren’t blessed with something much better instead.
(Read more on Deadshirt)
Charli XCX delivers a combination punch of pop perfection, distinguishing with her sharp, efficient songwriting and punk rock attitude.
I wrote a dang thing about how good I like the charlixcx record what's called SUCKER, cheers.
The premise of The Runaways is original, the plot deceptively complex, and the core six characters an absolute joy to get to know. It’s a series that received a lot of attention when it was first published but has waned from the spotlight in more recent years. However, co-creator Brian K Vaughan’s run remains the best part of this ongoing series, producing some of the best new original Marvel characters from the early 2000s[...]With Vaughan, themes of legacy, heroism, and love were woven together to create a story that explored what family really meant, and what to do if blood wasn’t thicker than water.
Christina Harrington (the-lord-is-my-coelacanth), The Rundown: Brian K. Vaughan's Runaways is a Marvel Book with an Indie Heart
Three comics you'll want to pick up when you visit the comics shop today: Lumberjanes #8, Sinergy #1, and Predator: Fire and Stone #2!
New TV reviews! Supernatural: The Musical! Time travel in Gravity Falls! Big drama on Parasyte! Gotham's Bruce Wayne finally gets to do something cool!
