The way MTV Geek’s Alex Zalben described Hawkeye to Jesse Thorn on Bullseyemade it sound like American Splendor with a bow and arrow. He wasn’t wrong. I just finished reading #10 and I’m ready for more. Beautifully drawn and brilliantly written, Hawkeye’s life outside the Avengers is positively spellbinding. The issue dedicated to Hurricane Sandy may …
The Thermals have a new album out in April on Saddle Creek. It’s called Desperate Ground. I’m really excited.
Freedom will be remembered as a story that captures a very strange chapter in American history. It’s hard to put a finger on it, but the mood of the last decade is something Franzen nails. His characters represent the amoral fugue state we drifted off into collectively after 2003. I’m not even sure his hollowed …
Matthew Ingram’s fantastic Woebot blog was an inspiration to me as a critic. His voracious appetite for and catholic taste in music pushed me to expand my palate and listen to music others may have dismissed as lesser works. In short, Woebot had big ears and it didn’t hurt that he could write. I’m finally reading …
Matthew Friedberger featured in Dusted Magazine’s Listed. Read it for his fond remembrance of Dick Allen.