Author Archives: Paul Lai

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Can Comics Matter to Our Politics?

By | Apr 25, 2017 | Longform

Don’t Miss a Single Issue! In the news today: campuses prepare for pitched battles over “hate”/”free” speech as partisan groups incite debate by booking provocateurs. The US Congress prepares for its own contentious bouts in impending budget battles over border walls, climate change, and life-and-death access to health care. Meanwhile, in other news: yet another […]

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“Sheriff of Babylon Volume 2: Pow. Pow. Pow.”

By | Feb 6, 2017 | Reviews

At the time of this writing, stories have flooded the media in response to the Trump administration’s “travel” ban against seven majority-Muslim nations. Stories told by American veterans about self-sacrificing Iraqi interpreters seeking a promised welcome in America. Or news profiles of refugees now waylaid by blunt policies after years torn from their homes and […]

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My Comics Year: Comics Podcasts Saved My Life

By | Dec 28, 2016 | Columns

I’ve listened to comics podcasts for years. But this is the year I’ll make the ludicrous claim that comics podcasts sorta saved my life. In Glen Weldon’s The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture (Simon & Schuster), Weldon quotes comedian Scott Aukerman about the Gen-Xers I was on the tail end of: […]

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Comics in the Spectrum Age: A Conversation with David Brothers, Image’s Branding Manager

By | Feb 15, 2016 | Longform

If you have attended an Image Comics panel at a convention of late, listened to the official Image Comics podcast, “The i Word,” or interacted with imagecomics.com and the company’s social media presence, then you’ve been exposed to David Brothers, branding manager, editor of Lazarus, and all-around toastmaster for the Image assemblage of empowered creators. Having […]

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A Jessica Jones ‘Alias’ Conversation

By , and | Nov 18, 2015 | Longform

Marvel’s Netflix series Jessica Jones (dropping Friday, November 20th) has already generated significant buzz and anticipation, remarkable for a character whose name recognition was Wasp-sized two years ago.  But the attention has been galvanized by the quality of the Daredevil series, smart casting of lead Krysten Ritter, David Tennant as Kilgrave, Carrie-Anne Moss, Mike Colter, […]

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The Pleasures of Peanuts

By | Nov 6, 2015 | Longform

The new Peanuts movie opens Friday, November 6, from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios.  The Snoopy Industrial Complex, perennially active, has kicked into high gear, circulating the newly-3D Charlie Brown and the Gang on Fox NFL Sunday, big box store ads, and all over social media in the form of Peanutized avatars of every […]

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Manga: A Reconciliation

By | Oct 26, 2015 | Longform

At Multiversity, we love comics. Sometimes, love is complicated. This is a story of why an Asian-American comics reader departed from Asian comics, and why he came back.  My relationship with manga has been symptomatic of complicated relationships between culture and identity, reading and longing.  But at some point, I had to ask myself those […]

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