Deadshirt Is Reading…Snow Days, Sea Kings, and Rule 63!

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on a diverse array of comics, from name-brand cape titles to creator-owned books to webcomics. Dylan Roth is reading… Star Trek #29 Written by Mike Johnson Art by Read More …

I Went to Sundance, Part 2: Love is Strange, Young Ones, I Origins, Dear White People

How to See a Movie at Sundance When Your Broke Ass Doesn’t Have Any Actual Tickets: 1. Pick the movie you’re interested in seeing. 2. Pick a different movie, because you’re sure as heck not getting into your first choice. 3. Exactly two hours and Read More …

Quentin Tarantino, The Most Interesting Screenwriter Alive

To say Quentin Tarantino is a controversial filmmaker would be an understatement. To some, he is the end-all, be-all of modern cinematic achievement, a shining prism through which the sum total of film history bends and refracts. To others, he is a problematic, culturally insensitive Read More …

“Damn. This is a thing, isn’t it?” The Language of Achewood

Chris Onstad’s Achewood, for those who aren’t familiar, is a webcomic launched in 2001 and follows the frequently surreal day to day lives of of the bear/cat/squirrel/robot/Keith Moon’s Head In A Jar denizens of Achewood, a fictional California neighborhood roughly based on Palo Alto. “Mexican Read More …

The #McConnaissance Continues: True Detective is The Real Thing

HBO’s new crime series True Detective is a show that can get away with resting on the laurels afforded it by its star power and simple enough premise. A cop show starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson on HBO would probably be well-received even if Read More …

I Went to Sundance, Part 1: A Man Most Wanted, Locke, and Jamie Marks is Dead

I startled awake this morning to bright light and complete confusion—where am I? What year is it? After spending a packed three-day-weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, watching back-to-back movies in dark, thousand-person theatres, it’s hard to remember what my real life is supposed to Read More …

Deadshirt Is Reading… Beach Boys, Cowboys and Three-Headed Wolf Boys!

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on a diverse array of comics, from name-brand cape titles to creator-owned books to webcomics. POINT! COUNTERPOINT! Editor/Publisher Dylan Roth and guest-contributor Jason Urbanciz present their arguments for Read More …