Star Trek is an enormous and complex cultural entity whose impact on politics, technology, and storytelling are undeniable. It’s also as flawed and problematic as any other massive media franchise. Lifelong Trekkie and Deadshirt Editor-in-Chief Dylan Roth attempts to make sense of it all for die-hards Read More …
Star Trek is an enormous and complex cultural entity whose impact on politics, technology, and storytelling are undeniable. It’s also as flawed and problematic as any other massive media franchise. Lifelong Trekkie and Deadshirt Editor-in-Chief Dylan Roth attempts to make sense of it all for die-hards Read More …
In The Rundown, Deadshirt dives into our cardboard long boxes to shine a light on important, unusual or otherwise remarkable comic runs (mainstream or otherwise) from a specific creative team. The Series Detective Comics (vol. 1) #742-753, 755-775 Art by Shawn Martinbrough, Phil Hester, Rich Burchett, Read More …
Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. For more of our thoughts on this week’s new comics, take a look at Wednesday’s Deadshirt Comics Shopping List. Read More …
In December of 2012, hot on the heels of their successful major label debut, The Gaslight Anthem’s frontman Brian Fallon promised their next album would be “weird.” In an interview with Rolling Stone, Fallon expressed his desire to make an album like Pearl Jam’s No Code, which Read More …
This weekend’s movie blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy is a comic space adventure starring a trash-talking raccoon, a friendly tree monster, a green alien assassin, a professional wrestler, and a square-jawed manchild who dual-wields laser guns while dancing to classic rock hits, his leather duster blowing in the Read More …
This Thursday we’ll be hosting another Deadshirt Date Night, and this time we’ll be watching Steven Spielberg’s Hook. Between 1989’s crowd-pleasing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and 1993’s immortal Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg directed two films. The first was Always, a small period romance that nobody’s heard of. Read More …
Nobody’s perfect. Sometimes the only way to understand why you love an artist is to examine something they’ve made that just doesn’t work. Sometimes, you have to Kill Your Heroes. Like many Jersey boys, I was raised on The Boss. Bruce Springsteen is an American Read More …
Additional reporting by Max Robinson This weekend marked the very first Special Edition: NYC, a new comic book convention that promises to deliver just that: a comic book convention. It’s put together by ReedPOP, the same company responsible for the New York Comic Con that Read More …
Lazaretto is a worthy follow-up to Jack White’s first solo album, Blunderbuss, wherein he shed the garage rock trappings of The White Stripes and the psychedelia of The Dead Weather in favor of a more roots-y Americana built on the early blues. White wears his love Read More …