Run It Back Cute By Oluwatayo Adewole • July 2nd, 2024 Kawaii is consumed by the West as beauty without threat, whereas the very designation of Blackness is full of threat. What does it mean for a Black woman to try and be “cute?”
Exploits Feature Three New Novels That Change How You Think about Reality By Kathleen Levitt • July 1st, 2024 The older I get, the more I gravitate towards fiction that messes with the real.
Noise Complaint Kawaii, Kaiju, and Guitar Pedals: Window Shopping With Effects Bakery By Ben Sailer • June 28th, 2024 Ben falls in love with an impossibly cute guitar pedal company that brings kawaii style and rock and roll together.
Funeral Rites The Capricious Gifts Found in Portents of a Dying God By Noah Springer • June 27th, 2024 Soul-crushing realities are something that MÖRK BORG tends to revel in, so it’s nice to see that Matt Johnson’s newest deck offers the same type of disastrous opportunities.
626 Day This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health By Orrin Grey • June 26th, 2024 As a weird kid myself, who grew up into a weird adult, it’s easy to see aspects of myself in both Lilo and Stitch – and I’m not alone.
Feature Story Minus One Is King By David Shimomura • June 26th, 2024 Everyone has trauma. Godzilla is definitely still cool but he’s deeply threatening and he probably hates you.
Feature Story Making a Mess in Kaiju No. 8 By Van Dennis • June 25th, 2024 Kaiju No. 8 is a wonderfully refreshing series: a show about someone in their early 30s who finds out that their dream is still achievable, even if it’s by unconventional means.
Fallout 4: The Railroad Has a Short Track By Joshua M. Henson • June 24th, 2024 The questions of Civil Rights and self-determination that the Railroad are attempting to posit to the broader Commonwealth are rendered secondary (at best) to secret-agent roleplaying.
The Filming of Conan the Barbarian By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 24th, 2024 What is best in life? More Conan talk!