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Cover of the Week - Wolverine: Weapon X & Supergirl

It's Sunday, and that means it is time to look at some of our favorite covers in yet another edition of Cover of the Week. It looks like Ryan and I are part of a bigger hive mind, as we seem to have gone with similar the similar motif of "people ...

From MATT AMPERSAND, The Weekly Crisis,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wolverine,  Twitter Inc

Crisis on Infinite Arts - David Lafuente's Ava Destruction

Ava Destruction is one of the characters from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' series, Incognito. Ava underwent a "live-fast-die-young" procedure that besides granting her superpowers, it made her look constantly like a teenager, despite being close to 50 ...

From MATT AMPERSAND, The Weekly Crisis,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Digital Comics Done Right

Recently, Marvel announced a deal with iTunes that would allow them to distribute Marvel comics to iPhone and iPod Touch. I can certainly understand the appeal, and why Marvel would want to enter that market: anything that Apple releases these days is ...

From MATT AMPERSAND, The Weekly Crisis,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ira Rubenstein

Green Lantern Corps - No Fear or No Intelligence?

Now, Green Lanterns are not known for being the brightest crayon in the box. Hal Jordan has a long history of acting brashly and stupidly, like in the recent issue of Blackest Night where he decided that the safety of his former lover Carol Ferris was ...

From MATT AMPERSAND, The Weekly Crisis,  17 Nov 2009

“In Contempt” on The Stupak Amendment

In addition to Kevin’s comments, I’d point out this post by Ezra, pointing out that (by the weird definition of “subsidize” conservatives are suddenly using), Stupak “did not block the federal government from subsidizing abortion. All it did was block ...

From AMPERSAND, Alas, a blog,  11 Nov 2009

The Complete Persepolis Review

Persepolis is one of those books that you sometimes hear about when people praise the comic medium, along the likes of Maus or American Splendor, but that I had personally never read. I knew it was a greatly praised autobiographical work, that it had ...

From MATT AMPERSAND, The Weekly Crisis,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Marjane Satrapi

I don’t believe in “natural rights”

I don’t believe in “natural” rights. Rights are a human institution; those rights that aren’t institutionalized by humans don’t exist. The only rights I, or any of us, have, are the rights that are recognized by the society in which we live. So I don’t ...

From AMPERSAND, Alas, a blog,  10 Nov 2009

Open Thread and Link Farm, $47221.09 Dinner Edition

Post what you like, when you like, about what you like, with whatever links (including self-links) you like, for whatever purpose you like, wearing whatever underwear you like, eating whatever food you like, and liking what you like because you like it. ...

From AMPERSAND, Alas, a blog,  9 Nov 2009

Abortion Rights Thrown Under Health Care Bus

House Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to settle an impasse over abortion by letting the entire House vote on a proposed solution, a risky decision that could determine the fate of their trillion-dollar overhaul of the nation’s health care system. ...

From AMPERSAND, Alas, a blog,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Bart Stupak,  U.S. Republican Party,  Diana DeGette,  Louise Slaughter

In the future, people who voted against marriage equality will lie to their grandchildren about how they voted

This is a post-election thread; feel free to discuss any of the recent election news, future election trends, etc., here. Virginia and New Jersey: No surprises here. I don’t think these races indicate national trends, but I can’t blame Conservatives ...

From AMPERSAND, Alas, a blog,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Joe Lieberman,  Barack Obama

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