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Punk Rock Jesus: media-savvy second coming/reality TV comic
mostlysignssomeportents: Sean Murphy’s Punk Rock Jesus is a rockin’ comic about the Second Coming. It opens with a psychotically ruthless show-runner arranging to clone Jesus from DNA salvaged from the Shroud of Turin, implanting a foetus in the womb of a teenaged virgin, all for a reality TV show that starts with auditions for the…
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Chambara is kind of a stealth fighter. (Like Wattam, it’s hard to describe, which I love about it.) One player character is flat white; the other is flat black. And the world is all flat white and flat black, too, so your character blends completely into the background. Before you can deal with your enemy, you…
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With the exception of Oculus Rift, which attracted the usual enthusiastic crowds, I really didn’t see much interest in VR or AR. (I didn’t see Microsoft’s Hololens, but everything I heard says it’s pretty special so take everything I say here with a grain of salt.) The other VR/AR stuff seemed like a big ho-hum to…
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I recently got to savor a pretty good one. It happened two months ago, when the 2015 Pulitzers were announced. The Wall Street Journal won one for investigative journalism, for a series on Medicare fraud. The series was done by a team of reporters, one of whom is a former video-game-obsessed first-grader named Rob Barry,…
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<blockquote>By 2am I made it to Peavey Plaza, an urban park of a brutalist bent, made entirely of huge concrete slabs that create a morose, modernist amphitheater. In a stroke of genius, the organizers placed a range of video and analogue games, which gave the space the futuristic feel it deserves. There was Revolver’s sadist…