culture Alan Moore is Pretty Hilarious, Actually. Chloe Maveal Despite a reputation of emotionally intense titles, Watchmen creator Alan Moore's career is far funnier than audiences give him credit for
culture Gender As A Car Crash: Trans Narratives in Body Horror Sam Moore Sam Moore dives into Julia Ducournau’s Titane, Cronenberg's Crash, and others to explore the trans narrative between human and machine.
culture Frieza As Trans Icon (or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Monster) Sam Moore Writer and queer culture critic Sam Moore offers insight into the coding and characterization of Dragon Ball Z animation and comic book villain Frieza
culture How Clive Barker Gave Queer Liberation To Monsters Sam Moore Writer and critic Sam Moore shares their insight into Clive Barker's ability to turn monster movies into stories of queer liberation.
culture You Can Call Me Al’s Baby: The Bundle of Joy in a Throwaway Title Chloe Maveal While Judge Dredd remains Wagner and Ezquerra's greatest dramatic feat, early 90s title Al's Baby remains one of the most remarkable.
culture Bill Savage VS. a Twelve Year Old Girl: Examining Gender Norms in 1970s British Comics Charles EP Murphy With boys and girls comics of mid-20th century Britain split down the middle, how did writers handle the difference with identical topics?
culture Packing Power: The Art of June Brigman Chloe Maveal A celebration of the legendary artist June Brigman, whose crisp linework has helped shape comics as a medium
culture Peace and Relativity: Pax Americana as a 9/11 Response to the Cold War era’s Watchmen Kelly Kanayama An unpacking of Morrison and Quitely's "Pax Americana" as a contemporary response to war and formalism in comics.
culture Residents of A Serious House: A Reflection on the Fine Line Between Illness and Madness in Gotham Martyn Pedler From The Killing Joke to current-day Detective Comics, Batman stories ask where everyday mental illness lies among the mad of the rogues gallery of Gotham.
culture Known But to God: Visions of DC Comics’ The Unknown Soldier Tom Shapira From the 1966 series to 2008, the story of DC Comics' The Unknown Soldier is one that holds a steady importance despite its many different iterations.
culture “Do I Get My Present Now?”: The Failure of A Christmas Carol In Sonic The Comic Charles E.P. Murphy The holidays wouldn't be complete without British comics anthologies, and what better title to tackle than a holiday Sonic the Comic?
culture Digging Up the Bones of Father Christmas: On Shade the Changing Man #19 Tom Shapira With nostalgia as a signifier of the holiday season, let's look at Milligan's Shade the Changing Man #19 and laying the bones of Christmas to rest.
culture Too Hard Up to Buy Fancy Clothes: The Heist Film as a Social Reaction Ryan Lambert Film writer Ryan Lambert stops by to discuss unlikely heist films and their distinguishing roots in the need for money instead of the greed for it.
culture He Came From Inner Space: Celebrating the Birthday of Micronauts co-creator Bill Mantlo Chloe Maveal NeoText Review celebrates the birthday of Bill Mantlo, the writer whose work undeniably set a foundation for what many Marvel fans love most today.
culture Civilized Monsters: These Savage Shores and the Colonialist Cage Ritesh Babu Ritesh Babu discusses Vault Comics' These Savage Shores and the literal (and figurative) vampirism and caging nature of Western tyranny.
culture Godzilla vs. Biollante: A World Where Godzilla is Normal Sean Dillon Sean Dillon offers a discussion on the beauty and horrors of the unsuspecting 1989 kaiju film Godzilla vs. Biollante.
culture “The Bat”: Three Film Versions of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s Classic Stage Comedy Thriller Joseph Gibson "The Bat" by Mary Roberts Rinehart has to rank as one of the most secretly influential works of fiction of the 20th century.
culture Love and Rockets: Old Punks and New Mentors Robert Smith Robert Smith offers an in-depth appreciation of Jaime Hernandez's emotional work on "Love and Rockets", which continues to inspire 40 year after its debut.
culture How Pastiche Comic Books Help Us Rewrite Our Own History Sergio Lopez Author and critic Sergio Lopez discusses his connection with, and the greater importance of, the much-beloved pastiche comics of the 1990s.
culture Wired Worlds and Atomic Babies: The Punk Rock Joy of Deadline Comics Magazine Chloe Maveal NeoText takes a moment to reflect on the brilliantly anarchic talent powerhouse that was the UK's Deadline Comics Magazine
culture Strange As Folk: 2000 AD’s John Smith and a Discussion of Queerness Chloe Maveal In honor of Pride month, editor Chloe Maveal discusses queerness in the storytelling of beloved British writer John Smith
culture Buckets of Heroics: John Wagner, Alan Grant, and Cam Kennedy’s “Outcasts” Chloe Maveal Chloe Maveal explores the Judge Dredd creative team Wagner, Grant, and Kennedy's often-forgotten DC Comics series "Outcasts"
culture “In Magician’s Mysterious Sleeves”: Rick Veitch and the Censoring of Swamp Thing Cole Hornaday It was not the first time an event beyond his control catapulted the Swamp Thing into an odyssey that took him far from his Houma home...
culture Gaze Into The Art of Bolland: The Career and Covers of Brian Bolland Chloe Maveal On his 70th birthday, let's take a moment to sing the praises of the entirely unmatched talents of artist Brian Bolland.
culture A Freshly Cut Nerve: John Schlesinger and William Goldman’s “Marathon Man” Joseph Gibson "Marathon Man", directed by John Schlesinger and written by William Goldman (based on his own novel of the same name) fits snugly into the well known...
culture An Interview with Eddie Campbell, Part One: The Years Have (Digitally Colorized) Pants Chloe Maveal An interview with the incomparable comics creator Eddie Campbell.
culture “Satan! Cool!”: Why Kyle Baker’s Zombie Comic Tops Them All Chloe Maveal When it comes to the best "Walking Dead" title, there's no doubt that Lester Fenton and the Walking Dead by Kyle Baker takes the cake!
culture The Megazine That Never Was Chloe Maveal With today marking 30 amazing years of the Judge Dredd Megazine, it's time to look back and appreciate the never-were publications that made that possible.
culture Judge Dredd: The Devil You Know Chloe Maveal Chloe Maveal provides a comparative look into Judge Dredd as a predictor of unchecked contemporary police brutality.
