http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/62927/aftermath-a-few-thoughts-on-the-world%e2%80%99s-end-as-imagined-by-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62927/aftermath-a-few-thoughts-on-the-world%e2%80%99s-end-as-imagined-by-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:20:14 +0000 Scott Brand http://sequart.org/?p=62927 In the previous chapter of these loose musings on Edgar Wright’s “The World’s End” we left the film’s protagonists in a secret alien base hidden below the final pub of the infamous pub-crawl known as… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/62843/the-end-is-nigh-a-few-thoughts-on-the-world%e2%80%99s-end-as-imagined-by-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62843/the-end-is-nigh-a-few-thoughts-on-the-world%e2%80%99s-end-as-imagined-by-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:00:14 +0000 Scott Brand http://sequart.org/?p=62843 In the ninth pub of the “Golden Mile”, the “Beehive”, the friends meet the blank of their former teacher Mr. Guy Shepherd. So it can be safely concluded that not even this figure of the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/62767/an-inconvenient-truth-a-few-thoughts-on-the-world%e2%80%99s-end-as-imagined-by-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62767/an-inconvenient-truth-a-few-thoughts-on-the-world%e2%80%99s-end-as-imagined-by-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:30:08 +0000 Scott Brand http://sequart.org/?p=62767 At one point of Edgar Wright’s “The World’s End” one of the film’s protagonist’s, Andy, describes Newton Haven as a black hole. Unknown to him at the time, this will prove to be an accurate… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/62659/returning-to-the-%e2%80%9cgolden-mile%e2%80%9d/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62659/returning-to-the-%e2%80%9cgolden-mile%e2%80%9d/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2016 18:00:20 +0000 Scott Brand http://sequart.org/?p=62659 As I promised you in the last instalment of my deliberations on “The World’s End” by Edgar Wright, we shall now join the film’s protagonists on the pub-crawl known as the ”Golden Mile”. Before entering… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/62593/old-red-eyes-is-back/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62593/old-red-eyes-is-back/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:00:59 +0000 Scott Brand http://sequart.org/?p=62593 After their previous ventures into the horror genre with “Shaun of the Dead” (2004) and the crime-fighting-buddy-action-movie with “Hot Fuzz” (2007), Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have applied themselves to science-fiction and its tropes in… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/44251/why-edgar-wright-leaving-ant-man-is-a-big-deal/ http://sequart.org/magazine/44251/why-edgar-wright-leaving-ant-man-is-a-big-deal/#comments Wed, 28 May 2014 05:44:30 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=44251 On Friday, news broke that Edgar Wright was leaving as director of Marvel’s Ant-Man film, which he’d long helmed and represented to the public. Wright is probably best known for 2004′s Shawn of the Dead. That… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/39220/michael-douglas-adds-to-ant-man%e2%80%99s-legacy/ http://sequart.org/magazine/39220/michael-douglas-adds-to-ant-man%e2%80%99s-legacy/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:00:13 +0000 Zaki Hasan http://sequart.org/?p=39220 While Marvel Studios’ Avengers franchise (and appendages) tends to garner the most ink, I have to say I find development on the studios’ secondary properties far more fascinating, as it demonstrates their willingness to continually… [more]]]> 0