Year of the Month: SHUTTER ISLAND
Spoilers ahead Shutter Island seems on the face of it like a textbook minor work…
Sam "Burgundy Suit" Scott
Sam is a features writer for Looper and studied writing under Kevin Wilson at Sewanee: the University of the South. He's been a staff writer for The Solute since its launch in 2014 and editor of the Year of the Month series since 2017.
I don't know how to put this, but he's kind of a big deal. He has many leather-bound books and his apartment smells of rich mahogany.
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Articles:
Roland Saint-Laurent on HEIL HONEY, I’M HOME!
Originally published on Failure Walk with Me The problem with trying to do a faithful parody…
POPEYE, Part Two: A Study in Segar-ian Storytelling
Popeye begins 1935 in Black Valley, investigating a gang of claimjumpers fed on tainted cactus…
POPEYE, Part One: A Study in Segar-ian Style
90-odd years after he first tromped onto the stage of Thimble Theatre, Popeye’s in a…
Year of the Month: FLASH GORDON
Nowadays, newspaper comics are the lowest form of life — page after page of crotchety…
Year of the Month: MAD LOVE
Mad Love opens in the Theatre de Horrors, a Grand Guignol knockoff packed full of…
Year of the Month: Persia on CAPTAIN BLOOD
It almost sounds like a “walk into a bar” joke: three actors — a swashbuckler,…
Year of the Month: Wykstrad on THE 39 STEPS
“I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of 1935
Year of the Month: Miller on ANOTHER SON OF SAM
Everyone has their favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000 gag, but I think the best piece…