Big Barda and Mister Miracle are hands down my favourite couple in comics, yet as I sit down to write about why, the words escape me. If I think too much about it, I get misty eyes. They’re the best example of a monogamous relationship I’ve ever seen.
VIZWATCH: An Introduction to Current Manga!
Hello! It’s another PUBWATCH column! I’m Mackenzie, and this is my first article—ever! For anything! Every month you’ll be hearing from me about the latest VIZ Media, with some added commentary. This article is a hodgepodge of what came out from VIZ in October and the first half of November; there’s a lot to read!…
Heartthrob: Theft in the Fast Lane
Heartthrob: Season Two #4 Christopher Sebella (writer), Richard Wilson IV (artist), Nick Filardi (colorist) Oni Press October 2017 If you’ve ever wondered what the couple in the Eagles’ song “Life in the Fast Lane” looked like, pick up an issue of Heartthrob. Everything seems simple enough at first glance, just a loving couple going about their…
The Irresistible Promise of SBS’s New Supernatural Romance While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping Oh Choong-hwan (director and writer), Park Hye-ryun (writer) Lee Jong-suk, Bae Suzy, Lee Sang-yeob, Ko Sung-hee, Jung Hae-in (cast) Released September 27, 2017 (VIKI international premiere) It’s said that the faces of people we see in our dreams aren’t products of our imagination, but real faces we’ve passed. Maybe we don’t remember…
Sparks and Tarts: F*** you, romance is awesome
I am a reader, and I am happy that there are so many of us out there. I am totally part of the You Do You category of reading, where I expect you to like what you like and leave the rest for the ones who like it. I know that there are people who…
Hearts on Fire: Diverse Romance for Fall 2017
Welcome once again fellow readers! We’ve already shared some of our most anticipated science fiction and fantasy reads, and now we’re back for round three of our recommendations. This time around, we’ll focus on the brighter side of life and indulge in a little romance for the remainder of 2017. Out of the many, many…
Sparks and Tarts: With Romance, Your Mileage May Vary…and That’s Okay
Did you try a romance once and put it down, never to pick up another? Did you ever wonder why that was? Maybe the plot didn’t work for you or the writing was bad. Maybe it was just boring. Maybe the author wrote a piece of sexist, racist garbage. Maybe there were elements that hit…
Sparks and Tarts: A Romance Primer
What constitutes a romance? When is something Capital R Romance vs. a story in another genre with romantic elements? When does the line fall so thin that Capital R Romance lovers don’t really care? There’s been a lot of talk on the bookish interwebs recently about the nature of romance—romance novels in particular. Essays have…
Mass Effect: Perfect Digital Romances
Given the impending release of Mass Effect: Andromeda and my longtime devotion to the original trilogy, I’ve been thinking a lot about my experience with the Mass Effect series lately. My two playthroughs differed wildly; I was all about the rookie mistakes the first time through (RIP, Wrex), and though my Shepard was a more…
Weird Love Vol. 4 is a Blue Valentine [Review]
Weird Love vol. 4: Jailbird’s Romance Various writers and artists, Clizia Gissoni and Craig Yoe (designers and editors) IDW February 2017 A digital review copy was provided by the publisher Close your eyes and picture a classic romance comic. Perhaps you see a mod, stylish young woman, drawn by Jack Kirby or John Romita Sr….
11 Romance Authors of Color You Should Be Reading
For many non-romance readers, and honestly, probably a large portion of romance readers, romance is a monolithic tower of white women writing about courtship and society in the time of Jane Austen. And while Regency Romance is a pretty big part of the romance machine, and some of it is pretty fantastic, it’s not the…
Movies That Moved Me In 2016
I’m not particularly interested in Best Of lists. After the third list it gets stale and instead of discussing art that moved us, the discourse instead seems to focus on who wrote the best list, what rank the obviously good things appeared in. So this year I asked our writers to tell me about the…
