Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Yesterday they celebrated their 10-year wedding anniversary, but today Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have announced their marriage’s end. Bennifer 2.0 is over. Shut down. No longer supported by Microsoft. In a joint statement, the couple wrote: “After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce. We go forward with…
I spent the morning of London’s Pride parade hand-stitching dildos onto a flag. I’d been using the sex-toy motif in my work before I made a flag of Isis out of them and brought it to the march. Previously, I’ve attached dildos onto postcards from each country where homosexuality is still illegal to point out…
Grant Morrison set to gritty up Santa Claus. Take that, kids and Coca Cola!!! Source: Comic Book Resources BOOM Studios! announced through comic book company PR firm CBR that Grant Morrison will be working on a new series called Klaus set to tell the origin story of Santa Claus. The series will be a Conan…
Whoa. We’ve been getting dribs and drabs of reveals for Marvel’s upcoming universal reboot over the past week, but it looks like the jackpot has just hit: Comics retailers across the world have received previews for 45(!) of Marvel’s new series, and it sounds like it’s a whole lot of crazy. The previews book leaked…
Marvel’s current mega-crossover has put one of its biggest villains in charge of everything. And the law enforcement officers making sure that Doctor Doom’s will gets obeyed are all Thor. All of them Thor; all of them cops. Thors #1—by Jason Aaron and Chris Sprouse—is a comic that digs deeper into one of Secret Wars’…
That title is not hyperbole. This literally shocked me. Son of Batman, an animated movie, is pretty much exactly what the title suggests. And this scene, in which Batman finds out he has a son, is one of the more bizarre and uncomfortable on-screen moments I’ve ever seen. Son of Batman is the animated version…
We probably should have known this high was too good to last. One of the principle creators of Mad Max: Fury Road has responded to criticisms of sexism with the kind of comments that have us questioning whether the film is the feminist miracle we thought it was. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Fury Road has…
Reboots are the magic spells of marketing: A few licensed words summon hordes of fans to pay for a film and promote it for free, pushing it to the top of trending topics with endless online discussion whether they like it or not. When they work, they combine old fans with new viewers. When they…
Masks have always been considered a semi-obligatory part of superheroing; you can skip the whole “secret identity” thing if you want, but everyone’s gonna think you’re a jerk (or worse, Aquaman). With the exception of Superman, who hides behind a hair curl and a lack of glasses, almost every major comic book hero has a…
Photo Beth Hoeckel’s “Lips” (2013). Credit Image from “Babe” Last year, the pop star Rihanna posted a series of photographs on Instagram from a shoot for the French magazine Lui. In the photos, she’s sporting striking tan lines — and little else. Instagram objected, and the photos were deleted. Shortly after, Rihanna posted another image…