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Godzilla in America: All downhill from Raymond Burr?

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https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Godzilla_Roar-Marc-1912765428.mp3 Godzilla. Cool. New Godzilla? Cool. New Godzilla made by America? No use mumbling. '54 Godzilla's a film about post-atomic destruction. From Japan; the country that had atomic bombs dropped on two major cities and countless individual humans less than nine years prior. America dropped the bombs. Do the United States have a culture with anything to...

Claire Napier February 25, 2014February 25, 2014

One Ginger’s Top Ten List of Red Headed Superheroes (and Villains)

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Ever since I was a young girl, galavanting around with flaming red locks, I have sought out role models with a similar genetic mutation as my own. Smitten by red-haired superheroes (and villains), I have a bit of favoritism when it comes to my own comics collection and artwork and action figures … and cosplay….

Ashley Schmuecker February 25, 2014October 16, 2015

News & Things: Lights Out

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News New Game Black Shuck Looks At Mother-Child Relationship Megan Patterson of Paper Droids looks at this rarest of game tropes in the upcoming Black Shuck. Short Film Black Girl In Paris Heads to HBO Black Girl In Paris stars Tracey Higgens and is based on the novel of the same name by Shay Youngblood….

Megan Purdy February 25, 2014April 3, 2014

Any Way We Look At It, We’re Right: She-Hulk #1

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Jamie and Iyy team up to bring you their dueling (or not so dueling) viewpoints on the all new She-Hulk #1!

Jamie Kingston February 25, 2014February 25, 2014

Short & Sweet: No theme necessary

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This week we read more Marvel comics, some bande dessinée, manga, and ONI Press’s stir-causing The Bunker. We don’t have a theme–but who needs one?

staff February 24, 2014May 5, 2014

Catie’s Top Ten Upcoming Horror Comics

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If you’re anything like me, you want to have your horror fill all year round, not just when October rolls and everyone remembers how much they like indulging in monster movie marathons. Now is a great time to indulge your love of creepy comics; not only is Hellboy celebrating its 20th anniversary, there are tons of intriguing…

Catie Coleman February 24, 2014May 23, 2014

Chuck Fairlane, Down Set Fight. Scott Kowalchuk with Jason Fischer. Written by Chad Bowers and Chris Sims. Oni Press. 2014

Down Set Fight Ride: Chris Sims’ structure play-by-play

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Down Set Fight is just the right title for the book that it is. Short. Violent. Peppy. To the point. It’s nominally about American football–but I don’t even keep an awareness of our regular English sort, and I got on with it just fine.

Claire Napier February 24, 2014August 1, 2018

WWACRadio is back and talking translation! Here’s a preview

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Do you mind not being obviously credited, on the official English pages for the books you translate? Jerome Saincantin, translator: No, not at all. My name’s on the comics, which means that if anyone has reason to look for the translator, they can. And I’m not a creator per se, so I’m fine with it….

Claire Napier February 24, 2014February 23, 2014

Kickstarter of the Week: Kill Shakespeare Board Game from IDW Games!

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For those not familiar with IDW’s series Kill Shakespeare, let me break it down: all of Shakespeare’s characters are real, and so is Shakespeare (also, he might be a wizard). There’s magic and intrigue and high adventure. I don’t really need to give you more details than that, right? Go read this book immediately!

Ivy Noelle Weir February 21, 2014July 22, 2014

News & Things: Days of Future Dirtbags

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News Dirtbag Hamlet Totally Rad, Also a Dirtbag Mallory Ortberg and Matt Lubchansky re-imagine Shakespeare’s troubled prince as a skateboarding, bird-flipping douchebag, and it is glorious. “im going to the cemetery to touch skulls” College Could See Funds Cut for Choice of Fun Home A South Carolina university faces massive budget cuts after including Alison Bechdel’s…

Kayleigh Hearn February 21, 2014February 21, 2014

Three Love Songs/Three Comics

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Music and comics go together like … well, music and comics. Sometimes it’s just a well-chosen lyric juxtaposed with a particular panel sequence, or a character singing a favorite song that also happens to reveal something important about their story arc. However it’s done, the blending of such an evocative auditory medium with the visuals…

Kelly Kanayama February 21, 2014February 20, 2014

James McKayDreams of a Low Carbon Future, James McKay, 2013

Climate change comics: Dreams of a Low Carbon Future

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I like fiction set “after the/an apocalypse”. Young Adult fiction? Julie Bertagna’s Exodus, Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines, Kresley Cole’s Arcana Chronicles. A-movies? Mad Max trilogy, The Postman (FIGHT ME), Terminator 2. B-movies? Too many to mention! Anime? Hokuto No Ken, GunXSword, Demon City Shinjuku. Comics? Sheltered is great. Old Man Logan (in parts), Akira, Tank Girl, FreakAngels, bit…

Claire Napier February 20, 2014August 1, 2018

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