My Cultural Diet (August 2026): Castle in the Sky, Ride or Die, Green City Wars, The Anthropocene Reviewed
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
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A Garden of Spheres, Book One by Linnea Sterte (2025)
A woman with no memory of her past awakens on the shores of a bizarre world filled with gods, drago…
My Cultural Diet (July 2026): Halo, The Odyssey, Evangelion, House, Escape from New York
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
My Cultural Diet (June 2026): Orpheus, Le Samouraï, Gunbuster, Scanners, 2001: A Space Odyssey
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
My Cultural Diet (May 2026): Piranesi, His Girl Friday, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Peking Opera Blues
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Blacksad: They All Fall Down by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (2022)
Who’s the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger all about? I am, of course, talking about John…
Bodies by Si Spencer
A mutilated corpse appears in the same spot in London’s Whitechapel district in four different eras…
My Cultural Diet (April 2026): Blacksad; Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die; Cross; Crime 101
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
King of Spies Library Edition by Mark Millar and Matteo Scalera (2025)
Sir Roland King was once England’s greatest spy, an unstoppable agent who did whatever it took to p…
One World Under Doom by Ryan North and R.B. Silva (2026)
With Avengers: Doomsday coming out later this year, now felt like a good time to see what Victor vo…
Blacksad: The Collected Stories by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (2020)
Imagine Zootopia if its lead was a jaded, world-weary detective suffering from postwar PTSD, and th…
News From the Fallout by Chris Condon and Jeffrey Alan Love (2026)
When a man stumbles into a remote Nevada diner claiming to be the sole survivor of a nuclear bomb t…
My Cultural Diet (March 2026): The Fall, Project Hail Mary, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Fallout
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Biomega by Tsutomu Nihei (2004)
At first, Biomega feels like a bit of a retread of Nihei’s magnum opus, Blame!. Both series feature…
My Cultural Diet (February 2026): Once Upon a Time in China, The Expanse, Slow Horses, Lone Wolf and Cub
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
The Phantom Scientist by Robin Cousin (2023)
The Institute for the Study of Complex and Dynamic Systems seems like a researcher’s dream come tru…
Godfell by Chris Sebela and Ben Hennessy (2024)
When God suddenly falls dead from heaven and his body hits the ground, it sends shockwaves, both li…
My Cultural Diet (January 2026): Hard Boiled, Demon Slayer, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Pluribus, Stranger Things
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
The Black Mage by Daniel Barnes and D.J. Kirkland (2019)
Thanks to the “Magical Minority Initiative,” Tom Token is the very first Black student to attend th…
North Bend, Volume One by Ryan Ellsworth, Rob Carey, and Pablo De Bonis (2021)
Given everything that’s going on with the U.S. right now — masked thugs disappearing and killing pe…