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Tom Hardy and Venom in ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ | Venom: The Last Dance / Sony Pictures

Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ | Warner Bros.

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds in "Deadpool and Wolverine" | Disney/Marvel Studios

Mashle: Muscles and Magic | Lex Villena; mashle

Dakota Johnson in "Madame Web" | Madame Web / Sony / Marvel

Robert Nozick 1 | Illustrations: Peter Bagge

Spy x Family | Aniplex / Album/Newscom

ScottPilgrim | Netflix

The cast of "The Marvels" | Disney/Marvel Studios

Bagge-John-Stuart-Mill | Illustrations: Peter Bagge

Still from 'The Flash' | Warner Bros./DC Comics

Peter Bagge on a yellow and red comic background | Lex Villena, Reason

Header-Adam-Smith-Revised | Illustrations: Peter Bagge

Screen Shot 2023-05-31 at 11.29.11 AM | Across the Spider-Verse - Sony Pictures/Marvel

James Gunn's new 'Guardians of the Galaxy' movie is great precisely because of the gross-out shtick that got him temporarily fired from the film in 2018. | Marvel Studios

One of America's richest art forms suffers for seeming realer than other literature. But the war against "graphic imagery" is really a war against certain truths. | Illustration: Lex Villena: source image

Header-Montessori | Illustrations: Peter Bagge

A federal agency says material authored by A.I. can’t be copyrighted | This image was generated from a human prompt using craiyon.com

A phone and computer screen displaying the prompts for Midjourney A.I.-generated images. | Rokas Tenys | Dreamstime.com

William Shakespeare | Nicku / Dreamstime

Farewell to Aline Kominsky-Crumb, the mother of modern feminist cartooning. | Love That Bunch/Drawn & Quarterly

The Statue of Liberty surrounded by the New York City skyline sits in a snowy field with evergreen trees | Illustration: Lex Villena; Uladzimir Zuyeu

Christmas

The Best Ever Libertarian Gift Guide

Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.

Billy Binion, Eric Boehm, Veronique de Rugy, Emma Camp, C.J. Ciaramella, Addie Mae Villas, Christian Britschgi, Fiona Harrigan, Jackie Pyke, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Hunt Beaty, Adam Sullivan, J.D. Tuccille, Peter Suderman, Stephanie Slade, Bess Byers, Joakim Book, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Hilary Hackleman, Regan Taylor, Jason Russell, Brian Doherty, and Kurt Loder | 11.23.2022 2:01 PM

Bagge-Heinlein | Peter Bagge

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever scene | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever/Marvel Studios/Disney

Dwayne Johnson in "Black Adam" | Warner Bros. Pictures

ministhesandman | <em>The Sandman</em>/Netflix

bb4 | Illustrations: Peter Bagge

Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder | Jasin Boland/Marvel Studios/Disney

Brian Doherty is author of Dirty Pictures, a history of underground comic books. | Lex Villena, Reason

Williams-header | Peter Bagge

dreamstime_xxl_145447798 | Lex Villena

6-22-7-excerpt-brian-comix1 | Illustration: © Victor Moscoso/cover, Zap No. 4. By arrangement with Fantagraphics Books

Mises | Illustrations: Peter Bagge

ministhebatman | <em>The Batman</em>/DC Films

Movies

Review: The Batman

The movie's whole idea seems to be that if Batman truly wanted to make Gotham a better place, he'd find some other way to do it, perhaps involving politics.

Peter Suderman | 5.20.2022 6:30 AM

strange-multi-top | Disney/Marvel Studios

morbius-large-use | Sony Pictures

batman-problem | Warner Bros. Pictures

Thumbnail | MAUS by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books)

Bastiat Belabors the Obvious | Peter Bagge

spider-arms | Sony/Marvel

minisloki | <em>Loki</em>/Marvel

Television

Loki

Even the most powerful cosmic demigod can be foiled by the even-more-powerful machinations of bureaucracy.

Peter Suderman | 10.29.2021 6:00 AM

Bagge-Leonard | Peter Bagge

venom-carnage-large | Sony Pictures

Bagge-Booker-T-Washington | Peter Bagge

suicide-squad-2021 | Warner Bros. / DC Comics

ministrotsandbonnie_New-York-Review-Comics | New York Review Comics

Comics

Trots and Bonnie

Shary Flenniken portrayed her comic strip characters "with a complete lack of adult-world moralizing or editorial restraint."

Brian Doherty | 7.30.2021 6:00 AM

black-widow-building-lg | Black Widow via Disney/Marvel Studios

Thoreau | Peter Bagge

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