Two Against the Modern World

*New column is up. This one peers into two recent works that decry an art prone to repetition, through a wider critique of societal self-preservation and the comfy heroes that champion it by default: the irregular comic book project Seaguy and the new-to-R1 2008 anime movie The Sky Crawlers, from director Mamoru Oshii of Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor and Urusei Yatsura, among many other endeavors. Let me know what you think!