Chev’s1545 St. Clair Blvd.203-6623
The air was cool and the streetlights warm in a freshening rain when my companion and I took in an evening at Chev’s, an eatery just around the corner from Jane and St. Clair Boulevard.
Chev’s is just beginning to get its belt on under it, after spending a year and a month […]

“Sexy Losers”Drawn and written by HardUpdates weekly (currently on hiatus)
For those lucky few for which this will be their first link, the World Wide Web is filled with pornography. For pay, for free, or for pop-up, the web is filled with carnal media. Very little of this painting of whores is of any value beyond […]

Christina Milian featuring Fabolous“Dip It Low”3 minutes, 23 seconds
In the mind of man lies a sprawling, jewel-behung idyll in which the ego is permitted to run free, adorning itself in all manner of bling; where every palm-tree-fringed oasis is a mirror for the self-indulgent, and Narcissus rises like a waterborn phoenix. How refreshing it is, […]

“Aliens vs. Predator”Starring Sanaa Lathan, Lance HenriksenDirected by Paul Anderson
If Alien (1979) was the reawakening of a societal fear of sexual intrusion, and Predator (1987) represented alienation from one’s government, what could a head-on collision between the two possibly symbolize? Foregoing mental images of rape perpetrated by the Lincoln Monument, Alien vs. Predator is a […]

“Men In Hats”Drawn and written by Aaron FarberUpdates daily
Farber is one of few webcartoonists who actually began their online curriculum vitae with their sophomore effort. No stranger to webcomicking in a vacuum, his previous effort Pentasmal rang true, if somewhat obscurist, leaving potential new readers to, as the catchphrase goes, “get nothing.”
His current […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]