Comic readers and board gamers alike rejoice! Mouse Guard creator David Peterson has collaborated with Luke Crane to bring the game Mouse Guard: Swords & Strongholds, a game from the Eisner Award winning series, to Kickstarter. Peterson and Crane, who previously collaborated to create an RPG based on the Mouse Guard series, describe Swords &…
Comic Review: Action Lab – Midnight Tiger #1
Midnight Tiger #1 Ray-Anthony Height DeWayne Feenstra Action Lab We begin with an angry man, on fire, walking into a bar, and ignored by the people on the street who think he’s as high as they are. Our narrator is the Tiger himself, describing this scene in the past tense as the reader gets to…
Throwing Popcorn: My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Hasbro It took me a little while to warm up to the series that made tiny colorful ponies cool again for little girls (and unfortunately, cool to deviant perv adult men). Fans who fondly remember the original will love this one. Just beware of the Bronies when hanging out…
Staff Picks for July: Comics
Black Science Rick Remender (W) Matteo Scalera (A) Image Comics Black Science will return on July 30th after a three month break following the completion of the first story arc. Issue #6 left off with Grant McKay encountering a duplicate of himself from another aspect of the multiverse, rescuing his own children from said duplicate,…
Pacific Rim 2: Drift Again Like We Did Last Summer
The news is all over the internet: Visionary director Guillermo Del Toro and Script writers Travis Beacham and Zak Penn are reuniting with Legendary Pictures to bring giant robot action sequel Pacific Rim 2 to theaters in 3D and IMAX on April 7, 2017. The 2013 film Pacific Rim, starring Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, and Charlie…
Pakistan’s First Cartoon Feature: Three Braves, by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy already has an Oscar. (And an Emmy!) She won in 2012 for Saving Face, a documentary short that she co-directed with Daniel Junge that follows London-based surgeon Mohammad Jawad, who travels to Pakistan to perform plastic surgery on acid attack victims. The film examines the lives of individual survivors and the structural inequalities in…
On IDW’s Transformers: The Robot Politique
The IDW Transformers books are smarter than comics about transforming toy robots that shoot lasers at each other have any right to be. It helps that their creative teams aren’t content to just follow a comic writing schema along the lines of “introduce new faction member who is going to be on the shelves in…
June Staff Picks: Books
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains Neil Gaiman & Eddie Campbell William Morrow This is the illustrated version of the short story previously featured in the Stories: All New Tales collection. The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains is available to read online, and is a dark, ominous tale full…
June Staff Picks: Movies
How To Train Your Dragon 2 Dean DeBlois 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks Animation Release Date: 6/13 I’m really looking forward to this. Cute dragons go pretty far with me, and finally learning the mystery of Hiccup’s mother is exciting. The Vikings have been co-existing with the dragons, but now there’s a new threat – the…
Webcomics: balderdash!, Magic, Baking, Elk, and Friendship
balderdash! or, the Baker’s Apprentice is a comic created by Victoria Grace Elliott, whose work you can also find at House of Orr and Goog Friday. balderdash! (little B) follows the young witch Georgie, who leaves her family home to study a human-style, non-magical bakery in a town far away. It’s a story of big, blousy…
Interview: Amy T. Falcone on Clique Refresh
Amy T. Falcone is a freelance illustrator and comic creator. Like many denizens of the internet, I was introduced to Falcone when she was a contestant on the Penny Arcade reality webseries Strip Search. After the series concluded, Falcone relocated to Seattle, WA to pursue a career in comics; it has been a pleasure to…
The Saviour of Boys’ Literacy: Lovecraft, Bond, and the Order of the British Empire
Here in England there is a man they call the saviour of boys’ literacy. In February, he was awarded an OBE, and his name is Anthony Horowitz. In 2007, Anthony was singled out by then Education Secretary Alan Johnson as the not-so-secret weapon to get boys reading. —Horowitz’ author profile, Walker.co.uk We need an educational strategy that…