Open Journal Montreal

I started my journey in the wrong place. Forget about romance. Or, at least, don’t over-concentrate it: it needs to be diluted in a fair part of realism. I mean, you find out that your life is forever changed when you pee on a little paper stick. You become shaky, and catch the first bus [...]

by AnneMarie Ennis BAT BOY LIVES! FAMILY SERVED OWN PET AT RESTAURANT! UFO SPOTTED OVER EMPIRE STATE BUILDING! These are the headline stories of the tabloid newspapers of today. Glaring at us from supermarket stands, hidden away as guilty pleasure in shopping bags, the tabloid papers have a serious impact on the lives of 50 [...]

They didn’t call him Captain White America and Peter Parker was never the White Spider-Man, but for some reason, comic book publishers felt the need to emphasize the ethnicity of black superheroes by giving them names like Black Lightning, Black Goliath, Brother Voodoo and The Black Panther. In the 1970s, the two major comic publishers, [...]

“At each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled, until you explain your process. And yet I believe my eyes are as good as yours.” “Quite so,” he answered, lighting a cigarette and throwing himself down into an armchair. “You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” (Conan Doyle 12) The [...]