Deadshirt Is Watching… Cops, Spies, Kids, and Spacemen

Deadshirt Is Watching…is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt staff, contributors, and guests sound off on the television shows we’re tuned into, from intense dramas to clever sitcoms to the most insane reality shows. This week: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Steven Universe, Gotham, and Star Wars Rebels.  Dominic Read More …

Infinite Diversity: Star Trek is to Star Wars as Springsteen is to KISS

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 and outsiders Read More …

TrashMall: October 2014 Edition

Journeymen Deadshirters Mike Pfeiffer and Max Robinson are the Trash Boys. In TrashMall, they bring you the hottest products and apparel from thrift stores, vintage shops and other retail hotspots around New York’s five boroughs. This month they pressed their noses against the glass at Read More …

Guardians of the Space Opera—How Marvel Just Kick-Started a Venerable Genre

*insert breathlessly positive review of Guardians here, plus Rocket joke* There, that’s done with. It’s becoming more and more clear that the great mass of reviewers and fans have decided, yup, we like Guardians of the Galaxy. And that’s good. The film unquestionably earns it, Read More …

Deadshirt Is Reading… Genderswaps, Cat People, and Sexy, Sexy Insects

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. Max Robinson and Joe Stando are reading… This week saw the release of Read More …

THE SFXPLOSION: 1980 – THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

THE SFXPLOSION: Nerd-o cinephiles and Deadshirt contributors Patrick Stinson and Max Robinson watch and discuss the most important sci-fi or action blockbuster for a given year. Sometimes it’s a game changing hit, sometimes it is a career-destroying bomb (Sometimes a flop changes things more than a Read More …