U.S. (Windows) Release Date: September 2, 2014 Publisher: EA Price: $59.99 Sims live in a magical world where you can always be gainfully employed if you want to be, no one judges you based on race or sexuality, and everyone is a bit of a character. Sims fans are always hungry for more, and as…
Kickstarter of the Week: Dracula: The Kisses
Halloween may be a month away, but Dracula is for all seasons. The Kickstarter for Dracula: The Kisses…Help Scary Little Girls fly north! aims to raise funds to allow the show to go to the Mac Birmingham as well as prepare for a national tour. The all-female production “explores queer and feminist theory in gothic, steampunk…
Sex Criminals Review: Would you eat a street muffin?
Sex Criminals #7 Matt Fraction (W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Image Comics Sex Criminals #7 opens with Suzie mulling over the downsides of birth control pills before dropping her badly-needed muffin on the street. What would you do? Would you eat the street muffin?
The DC Daily Planet: December Solicits
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Where Do We Stand: August Comics and Graphic Novel Sales
Proving that Batman still has staying power even after seventy-five years, this month’s top single issue comic was BATMAN #34. The monthly tug-of-war continues between the big two, with DC winning the back the top spot but only three other titles on the list. Marvel took six of the top ten and Image snuck in…
Thinking Outside the Panel
Reading David Mack’s Kabuki: Circle of Blood was an entirely new experience for me. Back then, I was firmly in my superhero phase, keen on colourful and shiny art by the likes of Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri. Kabuki’s black and white format and Mack’s style was a bit off putting. Thankfully, I liked the…
Author Called Out On Racist Video Lashes Out At Tweeters
On September 7th, author Christy Parks (aka C.L. Parks) shared a video on Facebook.
Trigger Warning: Fantasy vs Reality
I hate the dark. As in full-on shaking, bones trembling, sweat-breaking-out-along-the-nape-of-my-neck fear. It’s a strange thing to admit to people because being afraid of the dark is something children fear. Being afraid of the dark is something people associate with weakness and immaturity. So no one thinks twice when they turn the lights out on…
Darrien Hunt: Shot Whilst Cosplaying?
A cosplayer with a trick sword is walking to a noodle place, he’s just been at the con. He’s shot in the back six times. Hey, says the cop — how was I to know it wasn’t a real sword? A kid with a trick sword is walking down the street, on the way to…
Review: Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Seconds Bryan Lee O’Malley Ballantine Books Katie Clay is getting it together. The protagonist of Seconds, Bryan Lee O’Malley’s highly-anticipated follow-up to the Scott Pilgrim series, Katie by all appearances has her life in order. A twenty-something with red, spiky Sonic the Hedgehog hair, she’s the executive chef at Seconds, a cozy and popular little…
Comixology adds over 4,000 comics and graphics novels to their DRM-free library
Comixology announced the second wave of publishers participating in their DRM-free library. The DRM-free backup feature was announced earlier this year during the Comixology panel at San Diego Comic Con, with a first round of publishers Image Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Zenescope Entertainment, MonkeyBrain Comics, Thrillbent, and Top Shelf Productions. Comixology also gave the option to…
The Thursday Book Beat: Libraries Aren’t Happy with OverDrive
Libraries Aren’t Happy with OverDrive Oh, OverDrive. OverDrive is planning on enacting a change that will require new users to create an OverDrive account rather than use their library card. The ReadersFirst coalition of libraries has written a letter to OverDrive CEO Steve Potash protesting the change. Stressing that “libraries, not the vendors we pay,” should own the…