Subscriber Features

I do a variety of monthly series here on Eternal Couch Potato, which aim to extend the ECP project in different directions as well as providing some of my other original writing, both fiction and non-fiction. The first article of each series is free, while future instalments are for subscribers only. Here’s everything from the first update to the most recent.

Comics and Literature - A Love Story: An academic-style series on alternative comics, literature, prestige, sex, and the weird ways they intertwine. This definitely wasn’t my dissertation.

1. Introduction

2. A Brief History of Comics, Sex and Prestige

3. Literature and Degeneracy

4. An Alternative by Any Other Name

5. Comics vs. Art vs. Literature

6. The Crusade of the Comics Journal

7. Erotica for the Juvenile Mind

8. Graphic Novels and the Comics Canon

9. Grub Street, USA

10. Grub Street Redux

ECP Flash Forward - FLCL: An episode-by-episode history of the FLCL anime franchise, in the style of the Eternal Couch Potato.

1. FLCL 1: Fooly Cooly

2. FLCL 2: Fire Starter

3. FLCL 3: Marquis de Calabais

4. FLCL 4: Full Swing

5. FLCL 5: Brittle Bullet

6. FLCL 6: FLCLimax

7. FLCL Progressive 1: REstart

8. FLCL Progressive 2: Freebie Honey

9. FLCL Progressive 3: Skipping Stone

10. FLCL Progressive 4: LooPQR

Ogre Squire: Ukura finds herself on an unusual journey when a super-powered knight takes her on as a squire. A fantasy web-fiction serial, with pretty pictures.

1. Once Upon A Raid

2. The Teeth of the Warg

3. The First Hunt

4. An Inn at the Crossroads

5. The Fire of the Past

Postwar Days: A fiction/nonfiction hybrid looking at the days after World War II, one at a time.

1. August 15, 1945 Part 1

2. August 15, 1945 Part 2

3. August 15, 1945 Part 3

4. August 15, 1945 Part 4

5. August 16, 1945 Part 1

6. August 16, 1945 Part 2

7. August 16, 1945 Part 3

8. August 16, 1945 Part 4

9. August 16, 1945 Part 5