Spoiler Warning: These diaries contain spoilers for The Witcher, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by CD Projekt Red, possibly the books upon which they are based by Andrzej Sapkowski, and the comics from Dark Horse, depending on just how ambitious/obsessive I’m feeling. Previously on The Witcher Diaries: Triss remains missing, but Geralt has…
Marvel Wants Girls…to Do Math and Science
Marvel Studios and Raspberry Pi announced May 21 that they have teamed up (along with Dolby Laboratories and Visa) for a STEM challenge for teenage girls. The Ant Man Micro-Tech Challenge is a DIY competition for high-school aged girls, looking for projects that involve a component of micro-technology for any purpose: education, functionality, or all out…
The Thursday Book Beat: Fifty Shades Is Back Mofos
Christian Grey is Coming Yes! The S&M loving, business suit wearing, hot for the lip biting man we have all come to know in his real boy form as Jamie Dornan) is back. I guess you could say he wasn’t the dominant (har har) in the last round of storytelling, but that will soon change! We’re getting…
#BlackComicsMonth: Diversity in Comics Panel at Special Edition: NYC
Continuing to prove that “Every month is Black Comics Month,” Dean “Tee” Vixen will be moderating the Diversity in Comics panel at this weekend’s Special Edition: NYC convention. #BlackComicsMonth got its start in February 2015 when Vixen started the hashtag to coincide with Black History Month. As the hashtag found traction, she realized that 28…
Reading Under the New Moon: Murakami’s Magical Realism in The Strange Library
The Strange Library Haruki Murakami Knopf December 2, 2014 The Strange Library combines two things that I love dearly: libraries and strange supernatural occurrences. The story begins with a boy returning his books to the library. When he asks the librarian for help finding more books, she directs him to a confined room in the…
Living her Dream: Kristi McDowell Chats About Gamer Girl & Vixen
What do you get when you combine a long time dream and a love of comics and fanfiction with a great writing partner and creative team and a desire to see more diversity in comics? You get Gamer Girl & Vixen, an up and coming comic about two super villains (because super heroes are dull!) whose…
Mad Max and The Tribe: Who Killed the Patriarchy? Men Who Love in a World Gone Wrong
Post-Apocalyptica is easily mistakable for a genre designed to uphold and deify patriarchy. Looking at the classics of the genre, your Mad Maxes, your Hokuto No Kens, Double Dragons, even your Tripods, it’s plain that a man with a downturned mouth is the icon we’ve made most obvious. And the MRAs grumbling about Furiosa’s imagined…
The Twin Peaks Log: S.2 E.10
We seem to have hit a slow patch as far as Twin Peaking goes. The middle of Season Two is well-known for being less exciting than all of the others parts of TP, and it’s hard to come up with much to say about these episodes. With that in mind, we are bumping the Log…
