September 5, 2014

Ghost in the Shell: The Major’s Body (7) (NSFW)

September 5, 2014

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 ...

Cosplay, Reviews

Product Review: Arda Wigs Over Dreadlocks

September 5, 2014

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 ...

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#WWACNerdMovie Rewind

September 5, 2014

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 ...

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Reviews Roulette: Comics We Wouldn’t Read (And Were We Right About Them?)

September 5, 2014

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 ...

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Arrow News: Another White Guy To Play Ra’s Al Ghul

September 5, 2014

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 ...

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Life Geek! Week: 08/29-9/4/14

September 5, 2014

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 ...

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Dogears: Novels We Have Loved

September 5, 2014

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 ...