Sorry for a belated Marvel Monday, it’s as though my job doesn’t respect that I have some free comic book news to write!
“Oh Japan”: Let’s Talk About Criminalising Anime
ITS DEAD NASTY BUT ITS LEGAL, DO YOU GET IT??? When I’d read Chobits in the Upper Sixth common room, my friends would call it “your porno”. I was like “uuh, NO”, because I was committed to being more beatnik than thou and knowing that, scoff, obviously not all (or even most or even nearly most or…
Dragon Con Dispatches: Saturday – Monday
If you’re just joining us, Labor Day Weekend was Dragon Con — the biggest sci-fi/fantasy/comics/multimedia comics convention in the south, celebrating its 27th year in 2014. It’s in many ways comparable to a SDCC of the South, but without the Hollywood interference messing with the signal to noise ratio. It boasts guests from every nerdy…
The Twin Peaks Log
Say hello to your new excuse to drink a damn fine cup of coffee: The Log Ladies of WWAC will be running a biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks. That’s right. Every. Single. Episode. Some of us know the show by heart, some of us are rewatching it years after our first viewing, and some are…
Ghost in the Shell: The Major’s Body (7) (NSFW)
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.