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10 Comics I Liked in 2010
Sometimes it’s easy to forget why I like comics and 2010 was a particularly tough year, in comics and otherwise. But here are 10 that reminded me why I do like them. There’s a lot of crime,...
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Minoru Kawasaki: Look Back in Fun Fur
Every April at the Gutter, the editors write about something outside their usual domains. This month Comics Editor Carol Borden writes about movies. This is not even close to a full retrospective,...
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Summer Fun Time Reading ’11
It’s summer time and instead of beer bottles exploding out of coolers in a shower of refreshing ice, bikini-clad hotties and fireworks as we know it should be, everything is wilting and perhaps even...
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My Little Pony: About 20% Cooler
I was uncertain about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. I don’t fondly remember the toy-hawking cartoons of the 1980s and I’ve always had an uneasy relationship with the girly. Dying my hair pink...
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Dreadful Thoughts
As an adult, my strongest impressions of horror have come from comics. My childhood ones are almost exclusively from tv—the trailer for Magic and a misguided viewing of the beginning of Andy Warhol’s...
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Terror of Monkeys vs. Robots
Manipulated by mad scientists, humiliated for humanity’s pleasure, will robots and apes tire of making our cars, vacuuming our floors, fighting our wars, washing our cats and smoking our cigarettes?...
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When Nature Attacks!
Aw, would this little guy hurt you? Yes, yes it would. Isopods are set to attack tonight in Barry Levinson’s The Bay, but they’re not the swarming, eco-horror threat the world has faced. You might...
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Who Wasn’t On THE BAY Red Carpet? Isopods!
one of the faces of The Bay. The real stars of Barry Levinson’s The Bay couldn’t make the premiere last night, isopods. It’s sad, but ease your disappointment with the knowledge that giant isopods...
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10 Comics I Liked In 2012
Tales of derring-do! Girl adventurers! Occult mystery! Infernal foes! Secrets revealed! Pirates! Love, loss & betrayal! Intricate art bound in lovely hardcovers! Indie going mainstream! Original...
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Recommended Easter Triple Feature
Happy Easter to everyone who’s celebrating. I suggest a Night Of The Lepus (1972) / Donnie Darko (2001)/ Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001) Triple Feature in the place of the many, many Biblical epics...
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A Man’s Life
“The type of thing I came up with was what sold at the time: Guys with guns and gals with no pants on.”–Norm Saunders (1983) A man presses himself against the wall of a collapsed mine as a grizzly,...
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10 Comics I Liked in 2013
It’s an amazing time in comics right now. There are too many good ones for me to even read them all. Comics are like a hydra, but without the decapitation or even really the fighting. (So maybe not all...
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Thanks, Everyone!
Vanguarders and Vanguardians, The Festival season is over and it’s time for the Vanguard blog to crawl sleepily away to its cave to hibernate until the next Vanguard programme. Thanks […]
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M.O.S.S. Movie Tweet-Alongs
Here are transcripts of the films the Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit chooses–of our own free will–to watch despite their often damaging nature. Why we do so, is not […]
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THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY: Our Friend The Mole Cricket
Hi, everybody! When we interviewed Peter Strickland, director for The Duke of Burgundy, he revealed that his favorite insect was the mole cricket and his favorite insect sound is the […]
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My Secret List Of Comics I Want To Read
Since DC’s reboot, I have hinted publicly about the comics I want other people to make so that I can read them. And by hinting, I mean, “talking about them […]
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Neko Ramen Taisho: Finding Your Own Way
Minoru Kawasaki’s Neko Ramen Taisho (2008) is the classic story of a son trying to prove himself to his father and his father’s desire to recreate his son in his […]
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Summer Fun Time Reading ’15
The Summer Solstice is nearly upon us, and I’m sure you all have your wicker men (or factionalist bee helmets) nearly done and your bonfire safely planned. (Remember, Lord Summerisle […]
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Wash Your Hands, People… Wash Your Hands And Pray
In past years, we at the Midnight Madness blog have warned you of many dangers. The dangers of hooking up with or dating dead people and the heartbreak of “intimate […]
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The 2015 Vanguard Mascot Battle: Contender #1
Boom! Sparkles! Sparkles! Sparkles! It’s that time again. The time when the most coveted award in all of TIFF is up for the taking. We are talking about, of course, […]
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