Issue Ten …

Issue Nine …

  • The Reagan Diaries
    A Simple Reminder
    BY Phil Nugent


  • Epic of Ambivalence
    Alex Ross' The Rest Is Noise
    BY Steve Hicken


Issue Eight …

  • Skibber Bee Bye
    The Extremes of Ron Rege Jr.
    BY Chris Llanier

  • Aleksandar Zograf
    The Interview
    BY Chris Llanier

Issue Seven …

  • Out of Many, One
    how the multiverse of DC Comics collapsed and the universe of Marvel exploded
    BY MATTHEW ROSSI

  • To Spend Time With Fools
    five novels for you inner drunk
    BY LEONARD PIERCE

  • The Peccadilloes and Ponderables of Peanuts
    Charles Schulz’s Final Wisdom
    BY JONATHAN MORRIS

  • On Prayer

    BY GREG HOUGH

  • Great Balls of Pryor

    BY PHIL NUGENT

Issue Six …

  • Abner Dean Made This
    An Appreciation
    BY CHRIS LANIER

  • DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths
    Like Shiva, only with more Supermen
    BY MATT ROSSI

  • The Very Definition of Lame
    Punk Rock Nostalgia
    BY GARY MAIRS

  • Are You Trying To Be Funny?
    Literature is Easy; Comedy is Hard
    BY LEONARD PIERCE

  • Delicate Balance
    The Rolling Stone Record Guide (First Edition)
    BY HAYDEN CHILDS

  • Hell Is Not Socially Constructed
    Postmodernism and horror meet in the stories of James Hynes
    BY JOHN JAMES

  • Little Deviant Kid Stuff
    An Interview with Keith Knight
    BY CHRIS LANIER

  • A Line in the Sand
    Supreme Power's Superhuman Reality
    BY KEVIN FULLAM

  • FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
    The manga of Yuichi Yokoyama
    BY CHRIS LANIER

  • Proud Desperation
    The Stories of Guy Vanderhaeghe
    BY GARY MAIRS

  • Templeton, Lay, and Tyler

    BY PHIL NUGENT

Issue Five …

  • Futuristics
    Visionary design in transportation engineering:
    The High Hat Interview with Paul Hernandez

    BY GARY MAIRS

  • Madness In His Method
    The unparalleled universe of Harry Stephen Keeler
    BY LEONARD PIERCE

  • The Joy of Slash
    Why do women want it?
    BY MELISSA PITTMAN

  • Looking Up In The Sky
    Superman as Man and Myth
    BY MATT ROSSI

  • Seaguy
    Grant Morrison's Opus Interruptus
    BY HAYDEN CHILDS

  • Prison Funnies
    Diesel Pete in action
    BY CHIP ZDARSKY

Issue Four …

  • Fate and Desire at Naptime
    Tom Perrotta's Little Children
    BY JOHN JAMES


  • Man, Superman & Policeman
    The comic-noir of Powers
    BY LEONARD PIERCE


  • Thought into Action: Lawrence Goodwyn on Democratic Movements
    Democratic movements are surprisingly rare in history, since the vast level of organization and open lines of communication that must be built for real democratic action to occur are daunting.
    BY HAYDEN CHILDS

  • Interview: Paul Lussier
    “I had no idea what it truly meant to take the perspective of the working man, the common woman, the black, the native American Indian, the fey, feminized aide de camp to George Washington — what it really meant to bring these people to the story of the American Revolution.”
    BY ROBERT BIRNBAUM

Issue Three …

  • The Comic Book of Revelations
    Craig Thompson’s Blankets
    by Chris Lanier

  • Thunderation!
    Notes on Teratoid Heights and the “Fort”
    by Chris Lanier

  • Ain’t No Rag: Freedom, Family, and Flag
    A specter is haunting my life: the specter of Charlie Daniels.
    by Leonard Pierce

  • Boob Deflators!
    The Baffler and the Boob Jubilee.
    by Hayden Childs

Issue Two …

  • Sex and Death in Four Colors
    Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains and Victors From the Robert Lesser Collection at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
    by Chris Hall

  • He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott
    If Jake Arnott is indeed as much a British doppelganger of James Ellroy as critical consensus would seem to indicate, then he's hopefully on the same career path as Ellroy - and that means we'll be seeing better and better work out of him as time passes.
    by Leonard Pierce

  • Short Reviews
    Sophie by Guy Burt and Ready, Steady, Go! by Shawn Levy.
    by Gus Sheridan

Issue One …

  • Infomercials For Myself
    “That’s when it struck me, when the totality of his slouch, his stomach, his sitcom-Zapata ‘stache and his predilection for chemicals all came together and caromed the medicine ball of epiphany off my forehead. “Wait... are you Lester Bangs?’”
    by William Ham

  • The Adman Magritte
    Magritte as Cartoonist and Shill
    by Chris Lanier

  • McSweetie's
    “The Believer, the latest product from the McSweeney's literary fun factory, is a square-shaped “monthly magazine,” handsome and idiosyncratic in its design, like everything that Dave Eggers has a hand in.”
    by Phil Nugent

  • Obsessives Unite!: Lethem Reviewed
    “Look, I don’t really want to write a review of Jonathan Lethem’s novels. I want to hang out with the guy.”
    by Hayden Childs