Dear Old People Who Run the World, My generation would like to break up with you. Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it. I think we have…
“Making meaningful things that matter”: Does Generation M include FuckYeah tumblrs, that’s what I want to know.
“This is Marvel doing the nineties right,” explained David Gabriel, Marvel Comics Senior Vice President of Sales & Circulation. “We’re taking two of the most popular cover treatments of all time—foil and holograms—to create an all new kind of cover, as a ‘thank-you’ to fans who’ve been demanding this kind of variant! Retailers and fans don’t need to worry. We’re only doing this on a limited basis.
This is something I just wrote in an email to someone:
“I think critics of ‘our’ generation feel this especially - we grew up reading mags or music coverage that encouraged serendipity or at least a degree of diversity, and so that’s our ideal of music writing, but how to make it work without a captive audience? I would go and buy the NME on Wednesday, and I would first of all read whatever they had on the Stone Roses or Morrissey, and then it was “well I’ve paid 60p for this thing and I’ve not got anything else about music to read, so I might as well look at this 10 out of 10 Jungle Brothers review!”. And every single part of that model of attention beyond “I go to this site to read about the stuff I care about” is broken now! It’s the curse of ‘generation X’ - all our cultural imprinting happened with stuff the net has destroyed.”
This is a detail from Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred’s full-page Metamorpho strip in the absolutely wonderful debut issue of Wednesday Comics, a 12-issue weekly anthology series printed on broadsheet newsprint. In addition to Gaiman and Allred’s strip, there are weekly contributions from Dave Gibbons & Ryan Sook, Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso, Kurt Busiek & Joe Quinones, Paul Pope, Adam and Joe Kubert, Karl Kerschl & Brenden Fletcher, and Kyle Baker. Recommended, especially if you like DC Comics and enjoy looking at oversized art by top-notch illustrators.
“A quick blast of frozen nitrogen will take care of Sapphire’s giant clam.”
Truly the age of innocence in comics is over.
As mentioned in Rip It Up And Start Again, Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s homoerotic cover of “Born to Run.” They played this on their 1985 American tour to, apparently, horrified audiences.
I’m not sure what’s homoerotic, or anykindoferotic, about Holly Johnson’s bingo caller jacket fat suit!
For Star Trek, not so much. After one TV episode, you might not know a Tribble from a Romulan, but you’ve probably figured out the whole Vulcan thing. Much more approachable, much easier to fake your fanhood
Which is why fans themselves create, determine and police levels of “insider”ness. This is what fandom IS! (Well partly). It’s not a case of ‘choosing’ approachability or depth: having fans means delegating that choice.
This week, the proposal goes before Equity’s ruling council. If passed, it will see the union push for a widespread reintroduction of cats to theatre buildings in a bid to combat the high numbers of rats and mice from which many suffer. The motion claims there has been a “marked rise in vermin infestation” over the last few years and notes that cats not only represent “an environmentally sound alternative to poison and traps, but [are] also good for morale”.
A more general revival of cats as working animals would be no bad thing.
Music nerds are supposed to enjoy making lists, right? I don’t. It’s mostly just a form of weird stress for me. This was difficult to make, and it’s just a preliminary step!
I had a similar tightly scrawled piece of paper for 00s singles and tracks and I LOST IT before I’d transcribed it electronically. This basically resulted in my withdrawing from almost all 00s discussion in a state of spiritual shock.
