Feature Excerpt What Does It Take to Appreciate Turbo Kid (2024)? By Jay Weaver • May 27th, 2025 All art ought to be celebrated, and the Wasteland welcomes all.
Exploits Feature Shogun By Levi Rubeck • May 1st, 2025 Here we have a call, from one heart to another but suffused with meaning for others paying close attention.
Funeral Rites No Magic, No Gods: Infinite Worlds & Infinite Horrors By Emma Kostopolus • April 29th, 2025 “Create stories. Create art. Create music. Anything and everything you create yourself has value and the more of it exists, the better off we all are.”
Feature Story Ethical AI By David Shimomura • April 25th, 2025 There is not an ethical use for a product built on theft.
Feature Story It’s Little, and Broken, but Still Good: Lilo & Stitch and the Human Touch By Orrin Grey • April 24th, 2025 Even imitation becomes colored by the gestalt that is ourselves, so that no two humans will ever imitate in quite the same way.
Exploits Feature The Animated Robots of 2024 By Van Dennis • April 1st, 2025 What’s suddenly relevant about cartoon robots right now?
Funeral Rites Notes Passed Between Me and Morgan During Algebra Class, After Discovering The Molt (If The Molt Had Been Published in 1995, When We Were in Algebra Class) By Orrin Grey • March 28th, 2025 You think you, me, and Josh will be enough, or do we need to find somebody else? Brian, maybe?
Feature Excerpt Spritfarer and the Labor of Grief By Laurie McRae Andrew • March 27th, 2025 Judith Butler helps us see how Spiritfarer’s gameplay mechanics connect labor with the politics of grief.
Feature Story Leading with Watercolor on the Seven Seas: Bear Pirate Viking Queen By Edward Kane • March 26th, 2025 “I don’t think I’m doing anything particularly ‘untraditional,’ I am just using (maybe) different tools than what American comic book readers are used to seeing.”
Exploits Feature We Need More Gilmore Girls in Horror By Elijah Beahm • March 3rd, 2025 More women and girls working together across generations to grow beyond their trauma, please.
