io9 announced Friday that author Kelly Thompson’s book The Girl Who Would Be King will be turned into a movie via Logan Pictures. The book takes on an interesting twist of the superhero mythos about two young women with super powers – Bonnie and Lola – and was more than successful in its Kickstarter campaign in 2012 (at…
Review: The Fourteenth Goldfish
The Fourteenth Goldfish Jennifer L. Holm Random House Books for Young Readers I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review. The Fourteenth Goldfish is about valuing the natural order of life. Youth, puberty, young adulthood, regular adulthood, and old age are each equally as valuable (and awkward) as the rest….
Update on the Possible Black Widow Solo Film
Latino Review has released an interview with David Hayter about the rumored Black Widow film he’s working on according to IMDB. He sets the record straight: For ‘Black Widow,’ I wrote [a script] ten years ago and I was attached to direct it then. Then a few female action movies came out and they didn’t do…
Mighty Marvel Monday: The Superior Or Just Regular Tony Stark
Monday again! This has been quite the week for Marvel — LadyThor (wait, we aren’t supposed to call her that) and Fal-Cap caused a significant amount of Internet rabble rousing. What else has been going on at the House of Ideas?
Marvel Announces Five Dates For Untitled Films Through 2019
Marvel Studios announced Friday afternoon the dates of five mystery movies yet to be titled from July 27, 2017 to May 3rd, 2019. Ant-Man is set to come out on July 17, 2015 and Captain America 3 is slated to come out on May 6, 2016 against Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Multifarious: An Art and Design Link Blog
Oh hello. Welcome to our weekend art and design link blog. Good reads, things that catch our eye, and excellent tutorials, Multifarious will be a mixed bag of art and design type things.
WWAC Sunday Art Gala: Flatscan No More
It’s Sunday! Lazy, restful, busy or boring; it doesn’t matter, because either way you’re here with us now. Sundays are art club days. Wanna join in? This week Wendy set the challenge: you as a super hero or villain. We spent the week finding time between, oh, this and that, to doodle up our power…
Lumberjanes at WeLoveFine? Don’t Mind if We Do!
You’ve heard, right? Lumberjanes shirts at WeLoveFine! And also a sturdy bag, for all the things you need. WWAC internal mail lit up with important discussions: which would you pick, and what would you wear it with? We’re sharing our virtual wardrobes — share yours too!
R/W: Do Not Stray From the Subject
Welcome back to R/W, your weekend roundup of essays and articles on reading, writing, and literacy. This week, the CIA style manual, Iggy Azalea, and The Fault In Our Stars bust into the dusty halls of the literary eeeelite.
Kickstarter of the Week: Fly the Colour Fantastica
Fly the Colour Fantastica is an Australian comics anthology that explores story and storytelling through colour. Twelve local artists (Alicia Braumberger, Alisha Jade, Rebecca Hayes, Eri Kashima, Eevien Tan, Sam Jacobin, Nadia Attlee, Sai Nitivoranant, Sheree Chuang, Tash Sim, Vikki Ong, and Viet-My Bui) will work with limited but brilliant colour palates to tell stories…
What’s Hot? July 2014
In our continued rejection of the Fake Geek Girl paradigm, What’s Hot? is our monthly feature re: what we’re feeling gleeful about in other parts of our lives. If you wanna know what we like outside of our usual WWAC beat — here’s where you can. And we want to know you too! Drop your…
Johnny Canuck Back In Print! Rachel Richey On the Hows and Whys of Reprinting 1940s Comic Books
Later this month, Canadian comics historian Rachel Richey will launch a Kickstarter campaign to reprint the adventures of Canadian wartime superhero, Johnny Canuck. Johnny was an adventurer-hero, a young soldier who was determined to take the fight to Hitler himself. All twenty-eight issues of Johnny Canuck will be reprinted in one volume with CGA Comics and…