The Major, or Motoko Kusanagi, is the protagonist of each incarnation of the Ghost in the Shell manga-anime-merchadise franchise. If you care to google, “Motoko Kusanagi is“ autocompletes to “a man” and “is hot,” then “in bed with a boy” and “in bed.” For a science-fiction philosophy character named for her military position, we (the audience — although I…
Product Review: Arda Wigs Over Dreadlocks
It’s a wig review! Arda Wigs Cosplay Wigs I mentioned way back in Cosplaying While Black: The Expense of Representing that I tend to cosplay only characters of color, to show that I appreciate creators making characters of my race, but that I was having a hard time doing so because my everyday hair is 4′ long…
#WWACNerdMovie Rewind
Last Wednesday (August 27th) WWAC livesnarked Strange Days. We learned a couple lessons from that one: 1) If it’s been over a decade since the last time you watched a movie, there might be some scenes that take you by surprise. I had completely forgotten about the rape scene. In the future we’ll be more…
Reviews Roulette: Comics We Wouldn’t Read (And Were We Right About Them?)
What happens when the head editor challenges staff writers to try a title they’d never pick up on their own? Reviews Roulette! Honest responses ahoy! Skyward #8 Jeremy Dale (W&A) Kathryn Layno © Action Lab Entertainment Disclaimer I haven’t read Skyward 1-7, so I went into this issue cold comic. Which is the charm of…
Arrow News: Another White Guy To Play Ra’s Al Ghul
Arrow has been really good when it comes to casting people of colour into playing people of colour, but I guess it was too much to ask for a middle eastern actor play Ra’s Al Ghul. We’ve yet to see one play the character on screen at all. The last person to play the lazarus pit…
Life Geek! Week: 08/29-9/4/14
Welcome to Life Geek! our new weekly lifestyle feature where we offer readers a glimpse into our geeky lives. Ginnis Tonik, Lifestyle Editor In the states, we celebrated Labor Day. I made baked brown butter and pistachio doughnuts. The saltiness of the pistachios perfectly cut the sweetness of the doughnuts. You can find the recipe here….
Dogears: Novels We Have Loved
Pirate Cinema Cory Doctorow Tor Teen I had previously read Little Brother by the same author and loved it. In Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow addresses some of the same themes as that earlier book: youthful idealism, where the internet and the law intersect, and access to information. Trent McCauley (aka Cecil B. DeVil) runs afoul…
The DC Daily Planet: Secret, Secret, Secret TUNNEL — I mean, Six!
Big news this week! Let’s take a moment from stopping volcanoes and unwinding twisters to discuss, caped crusaders.