In Part I of this article, we examined some of the possible origins, influences, resonances and echoes behind Issue #0 of Lawrence Gullo, Fyodor Pavlov, and Kelsey Hercs’ Bash Back: A Story of the Queer…

Source: The Family and Identity in Bash Back

It’s funny what you can find hidden right in plain sight. Sometimes you know it’s there, but you just don’t know where to look. Perhaps you’ve seen it in other forms, in various other permutations.…

Source: Not By Something as Accidental as Blood – Bash Back

In “Modern Times” we don’t get any answers to the previous chapter, or even new questions about the things that we already know. One hazard in writing these “reader impressions” of mine for each chapter…

Source: A Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: Modern Times

A lot of events occurred in Jerusalem’s “Rough Sleepers” chapter. Moore’s nature of time, at least with regards to Northampton and the Burroughs had been revealed as eternalism: as space and time existing simultaneously in…

Source: A Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: X Marks the Spot

I didn’t know what to make of this chapter at first. To be honest, it’d been a while since I’d read Jerusalem after taking time to undertake some other projects. Certainly the preceding chapter “ASBOs…

Source: A Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: Rough Sleepers

There are a few things worth noting before I go on here. I might have mentioned this earlier, through my impressions of the previous chapter but unlike Alan Moore’s previous novel Voice of the Fire,…

Source: A Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: “ASBOs of Desire”

You know there’s going to be a story when you’re told, flat out, that the protagonist is going to go insane. I feel like for every detail I catch in my reading of Jerusalem, there…

Source: A Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: A Host of Angles

This is an experiment, you understand. I haven’t written for Sequart in quite some time and in addition to other articles I want to write, I’ve decided I wanted to try something I haven’t really…

Source: A Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: Work in Progress

In the second part of this article, we looked at the challenges that faced each artist-figure in Phoenix: Karma. Now, in the final part of this article, we will look at how they come to…

Source: On the Art and Cycle of Proper Suffering: The Artist-Figure in Phoenix: Karma Part 3

In the first part of this article, we looked at the beginnings of the artist-figure Tezuka Osamu, the cultural time period that informed his work, the era he chose to create Phoenix: Karma in and…

Source: On the Art and Cycle of Proper Suffering: The Artist-Figure in Phoenix: Karma Part 2