When I was ten and my brother twelve, we got Sunday morning paper routes. He used his money to buy gaming consoles; I used mine to buy comics. He stayed up late most nights gaming, and most mornings he’d be dead to the world in compensation. I was stuck delivering his share of the papers so often (thanks, bud!)…
The Incredible Action Figure Displays of Rogues Gallery Comics & Gaming
Picking a local comic shop is tricky business, and it often comes down to the little things that set a store apart from the one down the road. I have yet to visit Rogues Gallery Comics & Gaming in Round Rock, TX, but there is one reason I would be go out of my way to visit…
Love Is the Drug: A Contemporary YA Wearing a Political Thriller Trench Coat
Love Is the Drug Alaya Dawn Johnson Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press *Advanced Reviewer’s/Reader’s Copy (ARC) Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect Ivy-League future. But a chance meeting with Roosevelt David, a homeland security agent, at a party for Washington DC’s elite leads…
Mighty Marvel Monday: NYCC Round-Up!
I return from NYCC, battle-scarred and haggard, coughing so much that I am surely about to expel one of my lungs through my mouth (ask not for who con crud tolls, it tolls for thee), but I have the news for you, oh beloved readers. I have the news for you.
Webcomic Capsules: The Cute!
Sometimes you’ve had a rough, rough day, and you need the cute. The webcomics I’m reviewing below bring the cute artistically—and sometimes their subject matter is just as serious as real life. Positive Doodles Emm Roy Genre: Inspirational Cuteness Updates: Usually daily You can’t get any simpler than positive doodles. These are small, cutely rendered…
Hogwarts, After Dark: Event and Interview
On Thursday, September 4th, I headed out of my home long after the sun had set. Like a young Mr. Harry Potter, I entered the train depot alone, unsure of what awaited me. Maybe I would find my Ron and Hermione on this Red line trip to the Northside of Chicago, I thought. Of course,…
Put Another Dime In The Jukebox: Spider-Gwen Ongoing Announced
The news we’d been hoping for finally broke. Last Friday at New York Comic Con, Marvel announced that Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman, would be getting an ongoing starting in February 2015.