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Adam McGovern

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Mar 24, 2024

The Electoral Kool-Aid Market Test

A reliable irony of human perception is that you can see across to the bubble that others are encased in, while not noticing that you are…

The Electoral Kool-Aid Market Test

Adam McGovern

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Dec 31, 2023

Minus One and Counting

What a difference seven years can make, or one election night, one last day on earth. Shin Godzilla (2016) was in many ways the definitive…

Minus One and Counting

Adam McGovern

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Aug 18, 2021

Choose Your Own Armageddon

We don’t have to hear the trees to know they’re all falling. The doom feed is continuous — though by definition, we don’t feel it. The…

Choose Your Own Armageddon

Adam McGovern

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Mar 31, 2021

The Superhood

Established fantasy franchises put a lot of energy into “building out” their worlds. The really memorable ones know how to let their…

The Superhood

Adam McGovern

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Mar 25, 2021

Play With Fire

Prophecy’s not so difficult when both gods and mortals are so predictable. Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and its lessons play on a…

Play With Fire

Adam McGovern

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Mar 17, 2021

Wilderness Years

What if being alone is what we were really all waiting for? Isolation is the defining sensation of the 2020s, perceived as a passing trial…

Wilderness Years

Adam McGovern

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Dec 27, 2020

All I Want for Christmas

When lies become law, fables become duty. Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984 preserves its predecessor’s dreamlike texture and fairytale…

All I Want for Christmas

Adam McGovern

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Oct 6, 2020

Yell Cut

Can we ever live up to our mistakes? It’s a question pressing on all postmodern artmakers who wish to both proclaim and disclaim their…

Yell Cut

Adam McGovern

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Feb 17, 2020

Terminal Romantic

Originally published at HiLobrow.com on February 14, 2020

Terminal Romantic

Adam McGovern

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Feb 14, 2020

The Inheritance

Life is best understood sideways, and preferably not by the person who’s lived it. The shape that playwright Edward Einhorn’s family…

The Inheritance

Adam McGovern

Adam McGovern

Adam McGovern is a comicbook writer, poet, corporate semiotician and freelance agitator living in New Jersey.

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