Results tagged “angels” from The Cultural Gutter
Peering at The Sword of My Mouth
The digital edition of Jim Munroe and Shannon Gerrard's, Sword of My Mouth is up with some lovely preview pages. You can stare straight down the blade, if you want.
Repent for Free!
Read 61 pages of post-Rapture Chicago with a Raven and a Mummy from Therefore, Repent!, a graphic novel written by the Gutter's founding editor and former Evil Overlord, Jim Munroe.
Most Honoured, Word for Word
At first, I resisted reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel. A guy is stranded on a raft - it sounded like a concept that had been done before. But my friends raved about the book constantly, and when I finally broke down and read it, I found that it had some of the smoothest writing I'd ever encountered. Writing that managed to convey a lot of information but still was entertaining and gorgeous.
I said to myself: if only there were a science fiction writer whose prose could live up to the standard set by Martel. Someone who could recycle an idea just like the castaway and make it readable and interesting. Science fiction is filled with ideas that get lazily reused and it's tiring to read such half-baked stuff. Not long after, I found an answer to my dilemma. His name is Ted Chiang.
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Peering at The Sword of My Mouth
The digital edition of Jim Munroe and Shannon Gerrard's, Sword of My Mouth is up with some lovely preview pages. You can stare straight down the blade, if you want.Repent for Free!
Read 61 pages of post-Rapture Chicago with a Raven and a Mummy from Therefore, Repent!, a graphic novel written by the Gutter's founding editor and former Evil Overlord, Jim Munroe.Most Honoured, Word for Word
At first, I resisted reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel. A guy is stranded on a raft - it sounded like a concept that had been done before. But my friends raved about the book constantly, and when I finally broke down and read it, I found that it had some of the smoothest writing I'd ever encountered. Writing that managed to convey a lot of information but still was entertaining and gorgeous.
I said to myself: if only there were a science fiction writer whose prose could live up to the standard set by Martel. Someone who could recycle an idea just like the castaway and make it readable and interesting. Science fiction is filled with ideas that get lazily reused and it's tiring to read such half-baked stuff. Not long after, I found an answer to my dilemma. His name is Ted Chiang.

I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."