News New Vertigo Series Bodies Promises Four Artists, Four Detectives, Four Time Periods One writer, four artists, four time periods. Bodies is an exciting new project that promises hard-boiled detecting, lots of great art, and you guessed it, dead bodies stacked to the skies. Classic Paintings, Explained With Tweets, Status Updates, and Emojis In a…
I’m Loving: The Pumaman on DVD
Say it with me: “Pumaman, he flies like a moron!” One of the most popular episodes of the cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Pumaman is a 1980 film that rips off Superman and Star Wars and smashes them together with Aztec legends to form one ridiculous lump of a movie. The Pumaman…
Buffy Challenge Season 9
Season 9 OMGIMADEIT I DID IT Character Arc: Buffy Out of Place to Slayer at the Center We’re back to it! Zompires! And a BIG BAD that scares the BIG BADS! AND! AND! We’re back to having not super powered Scoobies and I <3 that so much. Best Issue: “Billy the Vampire Slayer.” Worst Issue: I…
Buffy Challenge Season 8
Buffy Season 8 Character Arc: Slayer Gatherer to Slayer Abjured It is interesting to see the transition from TV to Comics. The things that were strengths in the show (BIG OL’ ROUSING SPEECHES! for one) would fall flat in a comic. And they know it and play with it. The main story picks up towards…
One Small Step: Captain America and the Discourse of Fear and Security
A few months back, the first full trailer of Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier was released and I was extremely excited. Just to offer some context, I’m a fourth year criminology major at York University. Criminology is essentially the study of crime and criminality: I’ve spent the last four years looking at the punishment…
Scan For Discussion: NSFW, But Hella Worth It
Sometimes I think to myself, “Ugh, whatever, Go Nagai.” But then sometimes he does something like Tenkuu no Inu, which—somehow—has no official English translation. And I’m like, Yeesssssssss Because reader. Reader. Feast your eyes.
FCBD: Escape Pod Comics
Escape Pod Comics @EscapePodComics 302 Main St, Huntington NY Escape Pod Comics got in touch with us via twitter, keen to spread the good word: Free Comic Book Day, like all comics on all days, should be there for anybody who’s interested. They sounded like our kind of people, so we asked them about their…
Buffy Challenge Season 7
Season 7 Character Arc: Slayer Teacher to Slayer Master Slow to start, but then ALL PLOT, ALL THE TIME! While there are aspects of this season that I don’t care for, and at times it feels like they had four different plots planned out and they realized they had only one season left so they…
News & Things: Awesome Art
21st Century Tank Girl on Kickstarter Original co-creator Alan Martin’s campaign to create an all-new Tank Girl book. Although it’s Alan’s project, original co-creator Jaime Hewlett has agreed to do art for the covers. Bra Week Features Busty Girl Comics Over the next week or so, Autostraddle covers the topic near and dear to our…
Collaborative Review: Hidden, Out Today
First Second brings us Hidden, out today. By Loïc Dauvillier, translated from its original French, with art from Marc Lizano and inks by Greg Salsedo, it is a Holocaust education story for younger children. Hidden follows the story of Dounia, who tells her granddaughter the story of her experience during the Holocaust as a little girl….
Reading in Downward Dog: The WWAC Help-You-Out Workout Resource
Reader, I’m planning something. Something to do with… …Sports and exercise. And comics.
News & Things: Hellfighters and Snow Queens
New Book on Black WWII Soldiers Combines History and Entertainment Coming from World War Z author Max Brooks and Uber artist Canaan White, the new graphic novel Harlem Hellfighters follows the black soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment who fought in World War One. Amidst the history of war comics, black and other minority members of the…
