Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing delivers its lines half-cut, swirling the last mouthfuls of wine around in its glass, at a party. Everything is loose. Which is fair: much of the action is a party, half-cut, but there are always more mouthfuls to be found. Or bottles, anyway, half-killed. They fill every surface in the… Read More
Over the course of rereading Motter & Lark’s Terminal City, I’ve thought a lot about the characters and structure, the parts that I like and the part that I would do completely differently. One aspect that I am drawn back to is the point of view. The book has a large ensemble cast with a… Read More
Dean Motter is best-known for his sprawling epic Mister X, originally published by Vortex in the distant 1980s–a collaboration with a number of important indie artists, the story of an architect working to save the soul of his city after his designs are tampered with in order to drive the city’s inhabitants insane. But I… Read More