Author Connor Tomlinson

Connor Tomlinson

Connor studied English Literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury, and writes about pop-culture and politics for the British Conservation Alliance, 1828, and Medium. His first comics were Batman (Hush) #617 and #618, so he got off to a good start. He aspires to write the Superman 100th anniversary issue, and laments how the industry is burning down his twenty-year dream for ambitions of social activism.'

OPINION: The Irresponsibility Of The “Just Make New Characters” Argument

Connor Tomlinson

March 30, 2020

Comic Books, Movies, Television

Marvel’s “new” New Warriors. DC’s 5G Initiative. Riri Williams. Wallace West. Amadeus Cho. ‘All-New’ Mockingbird. Carol Danvers. A list of borderline-heretical names, certain to induce lucid nightmares for long...

OPINION: A Defense Of Jared Leto’s Suicide Squad Joker

Connor Tomlinson

March 23, 2020

Movies

Sharpen your pitchforks, fellas, because here’s a hell of a hot take. Todd Phillips’ Joker became an instantaneous flashpoint: seizing on the zeitgeist of rising male mental health issues and suicide rates, ...