Welcome back to another Mighty Marvel Monday! This week I have two big things to point to, and then a few smaller things to highlight. Firstly, it’s always sad when the comics community loses a beloved member, but it’s especially sad to lose someone like Darwyn Cooke, who was an amazing talent. And although most…
Dita Von Teese’s Opium Den: Consuming Problematic Media
My partner recently surprised me with tickets to see Dita Von Teese’s Burlesque: Strip, Strip, Hooray!, purported to be a revue of high production-value, best-of-the-best burlesque performed by Dita and a cast of striptease superstars. Though I’d never seen Dita in person before, many of the supporting cast were performers I had seen in the…
Dear Amanda: Letters of Caution
Cathy G. Johnson’s Dear Amanda plays catch with you for a while. Then it knocks the ball out of your hands. You thought you were reading a simple diary comic? You were reading a rather complex meditation on perspective, in fact. It knocked the ball out of my hands, I should say. Reading experiences may…
Funko and Marvel’s Women of Power
I’ve been diligently avoiding subscription boxes for quite a while now, vicariously living through my friend’s subscription instead. The field has become so saturated with subscription boxes there’s now one available for everything you can imagine. But what if you don’t want everything you can imagine? What if you want to be a bit frugal, even as…