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Cover to Cover: Transmetropolitan Part 9

In the penultimate volume of Transmetropolitan, Spider Jerusalem goes searching for Fred Christ and finally exposes the evils of Callahan.

The Uncanon of Literature: Go the F*ck to Sleep

Ultimately, it’s stuff like this that oils the gears of modern social- and mass-media, creating a public debate between the purveyors of moral outrage and the people who like to stick it to them.

Don’t Skip This: A Princess of Mars

The book was published in 1917. NASA was founded in 1958. Here is where science fiction truly becomes science fantasy..

Cover to Cover: Transmetropolitan Part 8

Reading through Transmetropolitan: this week’s reading involves invisible snipers, explosions and the reveal of Yelena’s father.

Comics and Graphic Novels: Rescuing Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck might have flopped big time on the big screen, but the comic book lives on.

Don’t Skip This: The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a book about debauchery and art. Especially that one magic painting. Did you skip this?

Cover to Cover: Transmetropolitan Part 7

Spider Jerusalem gets into some serious trouble and burns some people alive.

Superhero Primer: Cowboys and Aliens 101

Cowboys & Aliens is based (very loosely, it seems) on a 2006 graphic novel that contains no Jake Lonergan, no shackle, no Colonel Dolarhyde, and no Ella.

Don’t Skip This: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Surprisingly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s isn’t a book just for chicks. Capote does what all great authors do — take a half-formed truth you’ve been gnawing on and lay it out in black and white…

Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway

Today we celebrate Ernest Hemingway’s birthday. Happy birthday, you manly man.

Superhero Primer: Captain America 101

The first issue of Captain America Comics was dated March 1941. No need to catch up on 70 years of comic lore before Captain America opens in theatres. Here’s your crash course.

Don’t Skip This: Jane Eyre

Why on earth would a guy wanna be caught reading a proto-feminist romance? We build a surprising case.

Cover to Cover: Transmetropolitan Part 6

Spider Jerusalem continues his crusade against injustice while having a few side adventures along the way and his assistants finally get their due.

Don’t Skip This: Metamorphoses

You don’t wear a toga, but you know what it is to be jealous and want to kill a fool… Metamorphoses is actually neither boring nor difficult. It’s a rape-happy collection of tales worth reading and rereading.

Cover to Cover: Transmetropolitan Part 5

Spider Jerusalem continues to see the truth and reek havoc on those who are corrupt.