There are words that come to mind when one is privileged to “paw” through a tome such as the new high-concept, print-exclusive production from the gentlemen at Penny’s Arcade.

I’m preparing for a trip to Southern California, cutting a family visit short. The nature of the event in Encino demands my presence; I dread the necessity, but a dim neural recess tells me I should have known better in the first place.
I go in the name of Modern Humor Authority, and I go to […]

Websnark
Written by Eric Burns, Wednesday White
Intermittent
Look, we all know how difficult it is to write expert critical analysis. I should know. I’ve been a member of the Authority for about six years now, and it hasn’t been easy putting up with the day-to-day shit. Lance dominates the espresso machine, filling it with his own foul […]

It’s impossible to talk about Piro “Fred” Gallagher’s MegaTokyo without discussing the way people talk about Piro “Fred” Gallagher’s MegaTokyo. And how is that, indeed?

“Doom”
Starring The Rock, Karl Urban
Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak

Even the credits of the motion picture based on the ultra-violent video game from id Software explode onto the screen drenched in tough, manly syllables. Doom. The Rock. Urban. Andrzej. It’s the onomatopoeic collision of two gelignite-infused typewriters, ink ribbons fraying, keys splaying in mindless defiance to the […]

The threatened way you’re feeling now is the reaction many people seem to have to Bevan and Earle’s White Ninja Comics, which at three years of age and three hundred twenty-five installments is practically an electronic institution.

Death Cab for CutieBrothers on a Hotel Bed4 minutes, 31 seconds

Anyone who has heard Death Cab’s 2003 effort Transatlanticism is aware of the sumptuous aural feast Ben Gibbard is capable of setting the table of one’s ear with. Ambient traffic noise is used to delicious effect in A Lack of Color, its subtle careening vehicular […]

Nintendo “Revolution” Console
Coming 2006

It requires locution — Nintendo has some intestinal fortitude. In this market, they certainly need it. The self-proclaimed king of the family genre of video gaming, Nintendo isn’t so much a monarch as a viscount to Grand Duke Sony and Emperor Microsoft for their respective PlayStation 2 and X-Box consoles. With the […]

Corpse Bride
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
Directed by Tim Burton

How fortunate that my connections at the Children’s Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation in Greater Edmonton would finally come to fruition. The Foundation director, Gerry Klebsch, informed me that his brother — a local film critic — had obtained a copy of Corpse Bride, Tim Burton’s return to […]

Something For Rockets
Everybody Loves a Lot
5 minutes, 23 seconds

For the longest time I did not believe there was something about rockets. That image of the skyward-streaking phallus, its metal shaft probing heaven’s vault, as it were. It seemed so desperately Freudian. But there is something about these Rockets — Something For Rockets, to be nomenclaturally […]