Comics

Hue and Sigh: The Drab Palettes of Modern Superhero Movies

And what Guardians of the Galaxy gets at least a little right.

What Happened to Dick Tracy?

The yellow-suited detective once starred in America’s favourite comic strip. He’s still alive—but is he vital? How a U.S. Establishment icon became a kitsch artifact.

Bear Re-imagined

Marian Engel’s Bear was an award-winning Canadian novel relegated to the darkest recesses of literary history. But the Internet never forgets, and so to celebrate its return, we asked five illustrators to re-imagine the novel’s startling cover.

Leather Space Man: Bubblebath Pt. 2

As the bodycount of Leather Space Man's murderous hit single "Bubblebath" grows, those left behind attempt to comfort each other. But all is not what it seems...

Leather Space Man: Bubblebath

At first the incidents were minor. A close call here, a drowning there. But soon after the Leather Space Band released "Bubblebath," a sinister pattern began to emerge...

A Berlin Diary: Cactus Tree

Sholem learns that few places stop time as well as a clinical waiting room in a country that isn't home.

The Endangered Art of the Movie Novelization

Most aspiring scribes don’t dream of writing, say, the novel version of Man of Steel, any more than movie buffs dream of reading it. But the best novelizers in the game can speak to the art of translating a film into a new medium, and fan boys can speak to the fruits of their efforts.

A Berlin Diary: Kurt

The trouble with a public diary is that occasionally you get to meet your followers. This is the story of Kurt.

The Scene Report #14: The Slacker Episode

Wendy is the fictional narrative of a young woman living in an urban centre, whose dreams of contemporary art stardom are perpetually derailed by the temptations of punk music, drugs, alcohol, parties, and boys. Formerly Hazlitt's Montreal Scene Reporter, she now lives in Vancouver.