There’s a lot of new faces this week, DC fans! New creative teams to be excited or angry about, new cast members to muse over, and, of course, a few familiar names we’ll be sad to see go.
Reviews Roulette: Spin the Wheel, Write Reviews
Welcome to Reviews Roulette, where editors randomly assign comics to our staff writers for review! This week we assigned The Auteur #4 (Oni Press), Thomas Aslop (BOOM!), and Emily and the Strangers: Breaking the Record (Dark Horse).
Throwing Popcorn: Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls Disney Alex Hirsch, Rob Renzetti The show is kind of a Twin Peaks meets Eerie, Indiana, only animated and with less, y’know, actual murder. The main character of the show is Dipper Pines, a tween-age boy who is sent to Gravity Falls. Oregon with his twin sister Mabel for summer vacation. Their Great…
Brand New Batgirl Design Revealed, Internet Has Feelings
Let’s begin this way: Batgirl got a new design and it is awesome!
Short & Sweet: Princess Ugg, Black Widow, Scratch 9, and more!
Princess Ugg #2 Ted Naifeh Oni Press Princess Ugg #2 finds Ülga facing the biggest trial of her life. She’s faced giants, war, terrible beasties, but what can she do when challenged with – posture lessons? This issue focuses on the loneliness Ülga feels as she struggles with the daily lessons that the other princesses…
Human After All: Representation of People in IDW’s Transformers
As demonstrated in my last piece, the Cybertronians in the IDW Transformers books aren’t too different from people from the good old planet Earth. They have politics, they have religion- just as the Transformers are effectively human beings in metal skin, their society is ours coated in chrome allegory.
First Impressions! Sailor Moon: We Shriek A Bit
Kayleigh: MOON PRIDE, MOTHERFUCKERS. I’m so excited that Sailor Moon Crystal is finally here. Growing up, I was a huge fan of the original anime–those were the days when you had to wake up at 6:00 am every morning before school to tape it–and like a lot of 90s kids, Sailor Moon was hugely influential…
Tim & Harper Will They Or Won’t They: Batman Eternal Check In #12-13
Here we are again, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel. It’s another Batman Eternal Bi-Weekly Check In. For those of you just tuning in, Batman Eternal is the year-long, weekly comic book event being run to celebrate Batman’s 75th Anniversary. Gotham is falling to pieces, Gordon has been arrested, the new commissioner refuses to work with ‘costumes’,…
The Thursday Book Beat: J. K. Rowling Pens A Harry Potter Short Story
Gillian Flynn’s ‘Sharp Objects’ Being Developed for TV Sharp Objects, author Gillian Flynn’s debut novel, will be adapted into a television show. Marti Noxon will come on board as showrunner and writer of the one hour drama with Jason Blum and Charles Layton to executive produce.
Con Diary: Nexus Game Fair
Nexus Game Fair was held in the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This was its first year, but it boasted an impressive array of both role-playing and board games. There were a number of gaming notables, mainly former TSR employees and local game designers who were able to make the trip.
Diversifying DragonCon
Yesterday morning, DragonCon took to Twitter to announce the tentative schedule for the 2014 American SciFi/Fantasy Media track: https://twitter.com/daily_dragon/statuses/486512804661592064 …only to be slammed with criticism moments later:
Vault of Midnight Store Review and Interview with Nick Yribar
Comic book fandom did not come easily to me. When I was a kid I wanted comics to be “my thing.” The tricky part was at that time they were hard for an eight year old to get their hands on. My mom tried taking me to my hometown’s tiny comic book shop but the…
