http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/67818/fear-on-the-planet-of-the-apes/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67818/fear-on-the-planet-of-the-apes/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2017 23:34:41 +0000 Steven Ronai http://sequart.org/?p=67818 Planet of the Apes does not belong in the same category as Saw or Friday the 13th. It is not a horror movie. That being said, the Planet of the Apes franchise preys on our… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/67809/nietzsche-in-40000-years-part-three-%e2%80%93-chaos/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67809/nietzsche-in-40000-years-part-three-%e2%80%93-chaos/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:55:33 +0000 Desmond White http://sequart.org/?p=67809 The Imperium foils and fails the Nietzschean criterion, but perhaps the Forces of Chaos offer the will to power? [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/67791/the-orville-is-everything-i-love-about-star-trek/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67791/the-orville-is-everything-i-love-about-star-trek/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2017 02:05:23 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=67791 I’ve been a Star Trek fan for as long as I can remember, and The Orville is absolutely the Star Trek show I’ve been waiting for. Relaxed, self-aware, smart and open-minded, The Orville succeeds so… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/67784/the-commercials-of-the-star-wars/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67784/the-commercials-of-the-star-wars/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:00:17 +0000 Rocko Jerome http://sequart.org/?p=67784 I come not to praise the Star Wars Holiday Special, nor to bury it. You can find that elsewhere on the world wide web (Much more of the latter than the former, of course- it… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/67779/the-first-of-many-a-critical-and-cultural-investigation-into-the-new-star-wars-trilogy-and-what-it-can-teach-us-about-long-awaited-sequels/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67779/the-first-of-many-a-critical-and-cultural-investigation-into-the-new-star-wars-trilogy-and-what-it-can-teach-us-about-long-awaited-sequels/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:30:29 +0000 Jarrett Mazza http://sequart.org/?p=67779 I purchased my tickets for The Last Jedi literally two months in advance and I was still only able to get a Saturday showing, with seats in the back row. Not a bad result, and… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/67773/new-frontiers-and-bleak-futures-the-parallel-premieres-of-the-orville-and-star-trek-discovery/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67773/new-frontiers-and-bleak-futures-the-parallel-premieres-of-the-orville-and-star-trek-discovery/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:37:52 +0000 Karra Shimabukuro http://sequart.org/?p=67773 This fall season saw the premiere of both The Orville  and Star Trek: Discovery, and with both set in space, invoking nostalgia, and claiming classic Star Trek as a foundation/inspiration, it’s hard not to make… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/67757/nietzsche-in-40000-years-part-two-%e2%80%93-imperium/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67757/nietzsche-in-40000-years-part-two-%e2%80%93-imperium/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:28:37 +0000 Desmond White http://sequart.org/?p=67757 The Imperium of Warhammer 40,000 is a Nietzschean dream... and nightmare. This article includes an exploration of the Emperor as an Übermensch. [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/67733/deep-space-nine-and-babylon-5-remarkably-similar%e2%80%94or-similarly-remarkable/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67733/deep-space-nine-and-babylon-5-remarkably-similar%e2%80%94or-similarly-remarkable/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:00:11 +0000 Rich Handley http://sequart.org/?p=67733 During the past two decades, fans of Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine have noted many similarities between the popular science-fiction franchises. Such comparisons were inevitable, given the controversy involving the two series’ genesis. It… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/67727/jodorowsky-and-moebius%e2%80%99-the-incal/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67727/jodorowsky-and-moebius%e2%80%99-the-incal/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:00:31 +0000 Jaime Infante Ramírez http://sequart.org/?p=67727 According to J. G. Ballard, Fantasy and Science Fiction are the genres that, out of the whole production of the most part of the XX century, will, in time, become the most canonical. Fredric Jameson… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/67721/thor-ragnarok-shakespeare-for-schmucks/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67721/thor-ragnarok-shakespeare-for-schmucks/#comments Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:04:50 +0000 Jeffrey Kahan http://sequart.org/?p=67721 In a NYT review of Thor: Ragnarok, you can almost hear the writer, Manohla Dargis, desperately turning her notes over and over for something good to say.  The best that she can muster is that… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/67712/nietzsche-in-40000-years-part-one-%e2%80%93-understanding-nietzsche/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67712/nietzsche-in-40000-years-part-one-%e2%80%93-understanding-nietzsche/#comments Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:30:23 +0000 Desmond White http://sequart.org/?p=67712 To understand Warhammer 40,000, you must understand Friedrich Nietzsche. [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/67068/its-sequarts-fifth-annual-sci-fi-week/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67068/its-sequarts-fifth-annual-sci-fi-week/#comments Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:00:02 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=67068 Coinciding with this week’s release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Sequart is celebrating its fifth annual Sci-Fi Week! All this week, we’ll be running content focusing on sci-fi comics and popular culture. Sequart ran… [more]]]> 0