CatwomanHalle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon StoneDirected by Pitof
It is rare that a major Hollywood film comes along bearing any significance to the medium at large, and even rarer that it does so in a manner so subtly, so slyly, so flawlessly that its innovations are sadly bound to transcend the ideologies of those who stand […]

Chris Crosby and Owen Gieni“Sore Thumbs”Updates thrice weekly
Owing equal amounts to Paul Conrad and Calvin and Hobbes, Chris Crosby and Owen Gieni’s Sore Thumbs is a blunt yet pointed satire of leftist thought in the United States. The strip uses the device of its protagonist’s fantasy world to poke fun at popular Democratic-party standards, […]

I found Sluggy Freelance early in the millennialism running up to the celebrating of the chronometer rolling over. While the world was moving in fear of obscure COBOL errors and loading up on sixteen tons of rice after the sugar-induced stupor of the Clinton administration, I was clicking away secure in my own stock of […]

R.K. Milholland“Something Positive”Updates daily
I was drawn to Something Positive almost a year ago by some of my more sophomoric colleagues when they recommended the steaming pile to me. At first I didn�t read “S*P” (if you want to be overly pretentious like the strip’s author, Randy Milholland); however, actually reading it turned out to be […]

The name “Davan Xanthias MacIntire II” conjures images of an Irish Genghis Khan, astride in glorious green battle replete with fur-lined boots and a warcry to make his opponents’ spear-arms wither under an ochre blarney sun. Indeed, the character himself is not far from that image, clad in a blistering, saw-edged sarcasm that could repel […]

Hilary and Haylie Duff“Our Lips Are Sealed”2 minutes, 38 seconds
I always felt The Go-Gos’ original “Our Lips Are Sealed” lacked something, particularly given the subject matter of keeping secrets — it lacks a needed cherubic impishness, that skirts the line between horn-rimmed, houndstooth-bedecked librarian and saucy 1900s French coquette. Luckily, the Duffs’ production itself dances […]

This is the death knell of webcomics. I can already see it coming. In fact, I can see it so clearly I’m going to write the rest of this article from the point of view of the future, after it’s already happened.
It was 2008 when Hollywood first noticed webcomics.
Well, in 2007, Boxjam made […]