A Happy Place: Corner Gas
Sex, race, politics and laughs in Corner Gas, a family show and one of the greatest sitcoms of all time.
DetailsSex, race, politics and laughs in Corner Gas, a family show and one of the greatest sitcoms of all time.
DetailsICYMI: This past Saturday, @watchthemutants was joined by @ConorReadsXMen to talk about what the original Inferno event had to say about trauma, agency, survival, abuse. Watch the full discussion here #XMenMonday #NewMutants
DetailsHideaki Anno’s Rebuild of Evangelion is a quartet of movies remaking, retelling, and escaping the earlier Neon Genesis Evangelion tv show, movies, and franchise, by the same director and many of the same cast and crew. It is an artistic achievement that might just stop time. Or, it might just make some.
DetailsYukito Kishiro’s epic sci-fi cyberpunk manga Gunnm, aka Battle Angel Alita, may have been going longer than you’ve been alive (if you are under 30)! Here we look at #BattleAngelAlita’s longevity, appeal, messages, and why you should dive in, pronto!
DetailsGuest writer Dani Murano-Kinney joins us this #XMenMonday to discuss trans youth homelessness, taking the story of Jessie Drake in Marvel Presents #150-151 as a framework and @FIERCENYC ‘s work as a blueprint. #TransRights
DetailsBefore going into the early 2000s, with all of it’s ups and downs, let’s rewind back to the animated movies that were growing in popularity during the golden age in the nineties, for we can’t talk about superhero films without talking about the many animated ones.
DetailsCOMMENTARY: “Sum of Our Parts” takes Robin on a journey to discover pieces of himself and transforms an iconic piece of #DCComics and modern pop culture in a way that cannot easily be reversed. @DCComics #pride #TimDrake
DetailsGrant Morrison’s New X-Men, Phil Jimenez’s Jean Grey, the fable of the rabbit in the moon, and my 2005 move to help my brain-injured mother. Lessons learned. Dramatic actions taken. Our examinations ended.
DetailsICYMI: This last Saturday @watchthemutants was joined by @lesbianjubilee to discuss the themes and stories of Exiles (2001), as well as its groundbreaking & complicated team of multiverse jumping mutants. #XMenMonday @TravisHedgeCoke @magjesus
DetailsWhat does it mean to rewrite old scenes, to revisit old stories, to change characters and plots, to reuse old titles and dress characters in old clothes? A look at the past 20 years of X-Men & where they may go from here.
DetailsGuest writer Priya Saxena walks us through ‘I Am Not Starfire’ ( Mariko Tamaki, Yoshi Yoshitani, Aditya Bidikar ) and how the story of Mandy, child of an immigrant, shows you can be true to yourself while honoring and respecting the people you came from.
DetailsLove polygons, hypotrochoid psychology, stars under iron masks, perceptual truth. The reality of comfort objects, the Phoenix and Xorn as jouissance, the X-Men as the object of desire. From Slavoj Žižek to Igor Kordey, Luce Irigaray to Neal Adams, reaching.
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