The best horror comes from the tense intermingling of expectation and inevitability. We know that something bad will happen. We anticipate it, waiting for the moment of revelation, when the narrative strips itself bare and shows us its hideous underbelly.
Mighty Marvel Monday: All Things NOT Avengers: Age of Ultron
It’s Avengers: Age of Ultron Week here at Mighty Marvel Monday! “When is it not?” an observant reader may ask, to which I answer: Shhh. Maybe make up some of Annie’s recipes on this week’s Avengers-themed Cook Your Comics. At this time next week I, and many others, will have seen The Avengers: Age…
C2E2 2015: An Overview In Photos Part I
Con season is now in full swing, which for fans means sore feet, lighter wallets, and lots of nerding out in public. This is my third year attending the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo, a still relatively new ReedPOP convention that has quickly become one of the largest shows in the midwest. Here is an overview of…
Fail Better: If Irrational Parenting is Wrong, I Don’t Want to be Right
Content Warning: Child Abduction, Fail Parenting, Sickos living closer than you think, Child Endangerment, Drowning Have you ever lost your child in a store? How about a sibling you were in charge of or a child you were babysitting that walked away from you? Can you explain to another human being in simple terms that…
Lest We Forget: Batgirl. Bat GIRL. Bats, Comics, and Girls
Recently, DC Comics started circulating June’s variant covers that feature the Joker across different comic book series. The aim was to celebrate 2015 as the 75th anniversary of the Joker. Only things have gone a little wrong. The art across the covers was pretty great, so it wasn’t that. What DC got wrong was the…
Review: Lumberjanes #13
Lumberjanes #13 Noelle Stevenson and Shannon Watters (script), Brooke Allen (penciling), Maarta Laiho (colors), Aubrey Aiese (letters) BOOM! Studios April 15, 2015 For the handful of people that might have missed out on the Lumberjanes craze, issue thirteen offers the start of a new arc and the perfect jumping-on point. While the comic’s first dozen…
