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Monte Williams

About Monte Williams

Monte Williams has a Bachelors Degree in Communications. Would you like fries with that?

Columns

Lowbrow Literati

We Dream We're the People in Songs

[22.Apr.08] :. Is he strumming your face with his fingers? And singing your life with his words?

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Whitewash

[31.Mar.08] :. A small town white boy looks back at pop culture's impact on his concept of race while growing up, and how racism and homophobia are expressed and addressed in today's pop climate.

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Lowbrow Literati

Missing Places I've Never Been: A Love Letter to Alex Ross

[25.Feb.08] :. The appeal, the madness of Ross' painting is that it makes a scene involving a fight between spandex-clad do-gooders seem almost as important as Rockwell's depiction of the first step to end racial segregation.

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Lowbrow Literati

How Far Will A Man Go for G.I. Joe?

[18.Dec.07] :. Sigma 666: Wherein I offer my soul to Satan in exchange for G.I. Joe dolls.

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Godless

[7.Nov.07] :. I'm not here to mock God and his fanatical fan club, I'll sit back and let much more clever men and women mock them for me.

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Lowbrow Literati Autobiographigure: The Courageous Quest for a Toy in One's Own Image

Lowbrow Literati Where Gods and Monsters Watch Over Me

Lowbrow Literati By the Power of Softcore

Lowbrow Literati Transformers: Autobotic Asphyxiation

Lowbrow Literati Who Will Watch the Watchmen?

Lowbrow Literati Lose Your Delusion: An Open Letter to William 'Axl' Rose of Guns N' Roses

Lowbrow Literati A Miscarriage of Justice: The WWE and Political Campaigning

Lowbrow Literati Toys 'n the Addict

Lowbrow Literati The Red Envelope Held Sway Over All

Lowbrow Literati Wish or Wishout You

Reviews

Comics

DORK #11

[3.Jan.08] :. Dork #11 offers such an exhaustive assortment of alternately inspired and absurd jokes that it's tempting to simply list the best hundred or so in order to persuade you to buy it for yourself.

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Comics

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 #1-4

[27.Jun.07] :. Buffy The Vampire Slayer hasn't felt this confident, charismatic or hungry, indeed this essential, in many years.

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Famous Fighters #1

[5.Jun.07] :. Famous Fighters is a wickedly absurd and delightfully entertaining romp which more than proved worthy of my initial affection. But, I have no idea why Smith and Pappalardo bothered to print it.

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Roadkill Zoo

[24.Apr.07] :. There are certain expectations a reader brings to a comic book with a title like Roadkill Zoo.

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Myriad #1-4

[4.Apr.07] :. Here are stories concerning gritty urban superheroes, sci-fi elves and the superheroic militant warriors in homoerotic bodysuits with whom they do effeminate battle, and, yes, pirates.

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