pitiless

After the pitiless grind of junior year, we are all determined to enjoy our family’s final days in high school.

It depends on Trump’s ability to be pitiless in his ridicule of the targets of his contempt while allowing his audience to feel deeply sorry for itself.

Sammy Harkham‘s new graphic novel, “Blood of the Virgin,” carves out an imaginary corner of this pitiless sector of the movie industry and takes up residence.

Our reviewer called the book “beautiful and brilliant, heartbreaking and wise, but also pitiless, which may be controversial to list among its virtues but is in fact essential to its success.”

Underneath this smooth surface you find this crunchy Mother Jones liberalism, though he delivers it with pitiless negativity.