Metropolis

(or: “You Bees Make Honey, But Not Just For Yourselves”: The Problem with Mark Millar)

Written laws are like spiders’ webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
– Anacharsis, to Solon, when the latter was writing laws for Athens

Always act [...]

When I contemplate the title of this column, I cannot help but contemplate my abusive relationship with Tim and Eric. I think Tom Goes to the Mayor was funny, there. Of course Tim and Eric made it really hard. Oh the show always starts funny enough, but eventually snowballs into the TV equivalent of a [...]

It’s almost dusk now at the Saturday Morning Cartoon Characters’ Old Folks Home, formerly known as Camp Candy.
Nick “Wish Kid” McClary and Little Rosey are smoking on the front porch, flicking embers as Fat Albert dips his chaw and expounds on the Manichean heresy.
He’s eloquent from all his years of backalley wrangling. How many deaths [...]

Wrong sir! There are a lot of girls scared of the internet and comics.  Lucky for you I’ve waded through the mass of hormones, stacks of singles, and boob jokes it make my presence known.
I’m SarahBear and I’m relatively new to the Metropolis scene. I’m often referred to as “an outside source” when the guys [...]

Meet Wallace Wells. Wallace is 26 years old, Canadian, and gay. He is awesomeness personified, and will tell you so if you have not yet been informed. He’s the roommate of the eponymous main character in Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “Scott Pilgrim” series, of which the 5th volume is released today. You should check it out. [...]

No. There’s no way this could be everything I was hoping for.”
Yes.
Yes, precious.

It’s everything you were hoping for.

“Neville Quain: I know. I know I was the wrong man to lead a boy scout troop into the sewage system under Minneapolis, I know that now. But I think it’s safe to say I learned some very [...]

In connection with The Llano Idea, I am very pleased to annouce the bloghome of the mighty Metropolis. For 5 years now we have been West Texas’ premier comic book talk show, covering every aspect of the culture, serious or ridiculous, all through near-constant debilitating hangovers.
Following the wake of the KTXT Crisis, we’re now streaming [...]