* Good new comics news #1: Benjamin Marra has released Gangsta Rap Posse #2! It looks like this:
* Good new comics news #2: Emily Carroll has started a new webcomic called “Margot’s Room.” The way it works is that you click the objects listed in the text at the top of the landing page to read it.
* Good not really new comics news: Frank Santoro’s interview with Forming author Jesse Moynihan for the Comics Journal contains, in its entirety, the Lost-inspired comic “Spiritual Dad” that Moynihan and Dash Shaw did for The Believer a while back. Just scroll down.
* Did you know Brian Chippendale has a prose science-fiction short story blog?
* Here’s a sentence I’m excited to write: Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Community creator Dan Harmon.
* David Allison (aka Illogical Volume) connects Darkseid to the inescapable gravitational maw of contemporary capitalism as part of The Mindless Ones’ month-long series of essays on bad guys. What I like about this essay is that it makes Darkseid a lot more dangerous an idea than if we regard him as simply a celestial fascist, one of “those guys,” the obviously evil goosesteppers no self-examination is required to oppose. As much as I enjoy Final Crisis, no one was ever likely to come down on the “oppression” side of “freedom vs. oppression.” The original Jack Kirby conception of Darkseid and Anti-Life as war itself, whereby any violent opposition to Darkseid is itself Anti-Life, is a much stickier proposition, as is Illogical Volume’s suggestion of a humanity-devaluing socioeconomic program so pervasive that opposition is all but literally unimaginable. That’s the hallmark of a good dystopia, after all: No chains required.
* The CBLDF puts the Comics Code’s head on a stick and mounts it on the city wall.
* Craig Thompson, Habibi, Arabian Nights, Orientalism.
* The end of the first paragraph in Graeme McMillan’s brutal drubbing of Frank Miller’s Holy Terror may be the most devastating line I’ve ever read in a comics review.
* Another wonderfully weird image/gif gallery from Uno Moralez.
* This is a sculpture of a creature from Stephen Gammell’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark illustrations, by Kezeff. It is marvelous.
* Real Life Horror: The President can have Americans killed without charge, trial, or conviction at any point around the globe now, apparently, so that’s pretty fucking exciting.
* Finally, start your October off right with TERROR STAIN, the latest in Chris Ward’s annual series of Halloween mixes.
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Thanks for the link Sean, and for mentioning the “anti-life as war” angle, which I didn’t have time to get into in my post but which is every bit as complex and scary and exciting as you say!
“This touches on one of the great ironies of the Fourth World: Orion is the mightiest defender of New Genesis (and possibly the only reason they’re not all speaking Apokolipsese) only because he’s touched by Apokolips and tainted by the blood of their leader, Darkseid. He can protect his idyllic home only because he’s marred by the very evil it’s fighting. (Not, I think, a line of argument that most neocons would be eager to connect to themselves.)” and so on.
That Marc Singer… he’s no half bad you know!