I hate the idea of a liveaction Ghost in the Shell! It has no business being live or using human actors; it’s about augmented bodies of the future. They don’t exist yet, so they can’t be filmed — and if they did the concept art would have to push things further. It’s science fiction. Centre of…
Comic Variant Covers: A Brief Guide
So you’re browsing Twitter or your favorite artist’s Tumblr, and suddenly you come across cover artwork that is breathtaking. But somehow, three months later, this comic is no where to be seen on the shelf. Did it sell out before you got to your local comic shop? Did your store get a sub-standard cover while…
Zine-Sized Review: Not-So-Butch
Not-so-butch MariNaomi Self-published minicomic 2011 On my last trip to the local comic bookstore I picked up my normal random stack of zines among the anthologies and graphic novels I had saved up to buy. In this most recent collection of tiny comics was MariNaomi’s Not-so-butch. In the store I had considered buying her larger…
The Thursday Book Beat: Atwood’s Latest Book Will Be Unread For 100 Years
Forbes’ “The World’s Top Earning Authors List” Is Up James Patterson ($90 mil) Dan Brown ($28 mil) Nora Roberts ($23 mil) Danielle Steele ($22 mil) Janet Evanovich ($20 mil) +Jeff Kinney ($17 mil)/Veronica Roth ($17 mil)/John Grisham ($17 mil)/Stephen King ($17 mil) Veronica Roth is the young newbie as well as the 7th woman to show…
Gotham: No Straight or Whitewashing for Renee Montoya
Advocate.com wrote today about the diversity of Fox’s newest superhero show, Gotham. It looked at three of the show’s female characters: women of colour, one of whom is a lesbian. Zabryna Guevara plays Sarah Essen who is the captain of the GCPD Homicide Squad — which also means she’ll be James Gordon’s boss.