What Real People Do: On Steve Dillon’s Legacy
The first time I read Preacher, I was 20 years old on the other side of the world. My year abroad at Oxford was coming to an end – and about time, too, because for this socially awkward kid from Hawaii...
View ArticleImpersonism: a manifest
I’ve tried to hide from the truth, but wherever I go it finds me… whatever age I might claim to be, right here, right now, I’m an Internet Grampa. As soon as a columnist finishes the first draft of an...
View ArticleWe all devour down here
Hi, Mr. Morrison! Can I call you Grant? Great. Great. Gotta say, fantastic job getting Happy! on TV and with Pax Americana changing the whole freaking game and everything. Uh, listen. We need to talk....
View ArticleMindless Decade: Finding a Finder
I often find myself being drawn into arguments where I know almost every example of the thing I’m defending is bad yet still feel compelled to argue for what I believe to a worthy principle. “Text...
View ArticlePost, Human
(CN: Rape) When the sixth issue of Providence came out we talked about not wanting it in our houses. We made nervy comments about custom raids, then talked about taboos and how sometimes – just...
View ArticleHave a Nice Day
On the night our young decade was trying to be born, those trapped in the ritual of havering between TV channels in the UK might have found themselves wondering which century they were in. On one...
View ArticleDreaming of monsters
Like a surprising number of people out there, I’ve been having strange dreams in quarantine. Some are straightforward anxiety dreams – e.g. showing up to some fancy event but only wearing a towel...
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