The last of my LSCC interviews is with Kieron Gillen: comics playlist compiler, prolific Tweeter, author of Über, Young Avengers, the Phonogram series, Three, that run of Journey into Mystery, the upcoming The Wicked and the Divine (and much more), and, of course, 2014 GLAAD award recipient (for Young Avengers). I had originally intended to conduct…
Call for essays: Batwomen75
Last year we honoured Lois Lane’s 75th birthday with a series of essays from our staff and some awesome guests. This year, we’re honouring the girls and women of the Batbooks! (Don’t worry, Catwoman will get her own 75th birthday party next year.) Are you a Batfan? A women-of-the-Batbooks fan? Do you have a great idea…
Freedom! Masculinity! Anxiety! 300: Rise of An Empire Is Unsurprisingly Dick Centric and Decidedly American
If 300 was about dicks, 300: Rise of an Empire is about our freedom to swing them. The sequel comes nine years after 300 wowed young white men everywhere with CGI, slow mo, and speeches, and tries to recreate that “winning” formula. Its action is roughly contiguous to 300‘s, retelling naval and political clashes leading…
News & Things: Neo-Tokyo is About to E*X*P*L*O*D*E
News New X-Men: Days of Future Past Clip The new scene shows Kitty Pryde and the future X-Men—Blink, Bishop, Iceman, Sunspot, Warpath, and Colossus—preparing for a Sentinel attack. Happy Birthday Katsuhiro Otomo! Otomo, the Japanese manga artist and anime director best known for his iconic work on AKIRA, is 60 today. Young Avengers wins GLAAD…