Everyone should be forced to work in fast food. The public interactions, the bad hours, the coming home smelling like a sandwich. There’s nothing like it. The banal monotony of a Tuesday closing shift in the foot court Quiznos Subs of a dying mall where your only co-worker is a stuck-up 17-year-old who hates you…
I’ve never been drawn to war stories. There’s an impenetrable incomprehensibility that I’m not often able to move past. It’s like our inability to comprehend large numbers but applied to extreme emotional settings of violence and trauma. When faced with such powerful, loud, visceral or violent imagery, I often just … dissociate. Many creators, especially…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 141: From Xavier Files to ComicsXF with Zack Jenkins The big boss man himself, Zack Jenkins, joins Dan and Matt to talk about Xavier Files’ transition to ComicsXF and the site’s evolution from a blog ranking X-Men to a place for thoughtful comics criticism. As always, you can listen to…