THE SPIDER VS THE EMPIRE STATE: Reading Pulp in the Age of Trump

In short, The Spider VS. The Empire State...reads like a great, action oriented, heavy firepower version of It Can't Happen Here. And that's the greatest compliment I can give it.

Sometimes, context is everything...I'm writing this in the aftermath of what went down in Charlottesville, VA....

...and for some reason, The Spider VS. The Empire State: The Complete Black Police Trilogy[image error] feels a bit too raw, too real, for me to process.

After all, the premise - a criminal gets elected to become g...