Issues: Issue 324 – December 2015
Review: Trumbo
Refusing to succumb to peer pressure, Trumbo and the Hollywood 10 were sentenced to prison, but they fired back by working underground under pseudonyms. … read more
Review: Black Science: The Beginners’ Guide to Entropy
The easiest way to describe Black Science is “Lost in Space with anarchist scientists.” … read more
Review: Memetic
Memetic is a unique and foreboding comic for those who like to be spooked. It opens the mind and then shuts it off, leaving the reader wondering. … read more
Review: Southern Cross Vol. 1
Alex Braith is a surly woman with a shady past traveling aboard the space-tanker Southern Cross, bound for Saturn’s moon, Titan. … read more
Review: 88 Maps
In Rob Carney’s fourth full-length poetry collection, 88 Maps, we find the two-time Utah Book Award Winner for Poetry tackling the juxtaposition of the naturalist and the consumerist with some certain amount of skill and some lesser amount of tact. … read more
Review: The Avengers Encyclopedia
In the wake of Phase 2 ending in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, casual fans have had a lot to digest. Don’t get me wrong—there’s a lot of Marvel’s canon that people don’t really need to know in order for them to carry on with anything they’re currently watching, but there is a section of that audience who want to know more and just have no clue where to start. … read more
Review: Drawing Blood
If you follow Molly Crabapple online, you might know bits and pieces, but in Drawing Blood, we get a chance to really dive into what makes her tick, what drives her art and why the lowbrow workers are the stars of her illustrations, with the upper-class left as pigs on the sidelines. … read more
Review: Dreams To Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and The...
Mark Ribowsky weaves together a brilliant narrative that explores the rise of Otis Redding in conjunction with the essential establishment of Stax Records as a powerhouse that greatly influenced and made the ’60s Southern soul scene. … read more
Review: You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine
I started reading this book the day after I fractured my ribs, and I think the combination of the surrealism in Kleeman’s story and my slightly unhinged mental state (due to the pain) made me crazier than normal for a few days. … read more
Review : Undertaker: 25 Years of Destruction
The Undertaker is a cartoon-like character that fit right in with the company at the time, a tall mortuary caretaker who gained mystical powers over the years, including being able to take over lighting systems and fog machines. … read more