Halloween is right around the corner so what better time is there for American Horror Story to roll out their new season. Previous seasons have taken the viewer deep inside a haunted house, an insane asylum, and a witches coven. Now the curtain rises on a 1950s freak show. Though I am a giant chicken…
VIDEO GAMES VS COMICS: The New York Times Plays Dice With Fate (gifs)
If [GamerGate] continues, the medium I love could go backward into its roots as a pastime for children. Instead of being a mainstream form of entertainment, it could end up being something like comic books, a medium that has never outgrown its reputation for power fantasies and is only very occasionally marked by transcendent work (“Maus,”…
Jian Ghomeshi Fired Over Accusations of Multiple Assaults
After days of speculation about a “personal leave”, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation fired radio host Jian Ghomeshi yesterday morning. They did not comment on the decision in detail, saying that they weren’t in a position to do so — likely for legal reasons — but Ghomeshi and his team came out with a statement, posted on his Facebook…
Dark Engine Team Interview: Fury Born
Ryan Burton, along with artist John Bivens and colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick are the creative team behind Dark Engine, a new comic put out by Image Comics. It’s as heavy metal as they come, and follows the journeys of a woman named Sym. She was made by a group of alchemists to go back in time…
Scariest Movie of My Life: Event Horizon
I will be the very first to admit that when it comes to slowly building tension, dimly-lit hallways, and ominous music rooted in an ever-increasing progression of minor chords, I am a wimp. I don’t like scary movies, and never have. As a child, I was so terrified by my older sister’s description of The…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Very Secret Meetings **UPDATE**
Happy Monday, Marvel readers! This week is pretty much all movie news, sorry about it:
The “Death” of America’s Saturday Morning Cartoons
Greetings WWAC readers, please welcome guest author Meredith Guthrie. Meredith is a media scholar at the University of Pittsburgh where she studies children’s media, fandom, advertising, body image, and digital media. You can follow her on Twitter @Meredithea. First, a note: Although a lot of ink was spilled a couple of weeks ago about the death…
Short & Sweet: Fantastical Lands & Abilities
A Voice in the Dark Larime Taylor (w & a) Top Cow This one doesn’t sound like my cup of tea, but the reason I felt compelled to try it is that Larime Taylor, the mind behind A Voice In The Dark, is disabled and drew the entire comic with. His. Mouth. The art is…
My Extra Life 2014 Game Marathon
There has been a lot of negativity and poison within gaming culture of late, but on October 25th, over 40,000 gamers set all that aside to do what we do best in a 24-hour gaming marathon in support of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. I am so very thankful to friends and family who helped me reach…
The Scariest Movie of My Life: Ringu
“It can’t be that scary,” I told myself as I slid the DVD into my beat-up player and turned on the TV. I was 14, we’d just moved to a new country, and with the school year still a few days from officially starting, I was desperate for something to do that didn’t involve unpacking…
Shocking Twist: Data Show #GamerGate Is About Harassing Women
According to objective data, #GamerGate is not about journalistic ethics. Colour me surprised Newsweek had Brandwatch analyze 25% of tweets to the GamerGate hashtag. The social media analytics firm looked at 500,000 tweets, going back to the inception of the hashtag. They found that the vast majority of tweets were directed to female developers and game critics, not journalists: GamerGaters…
R/W: Flimflam, Fonts… Flaubert?
Welcome back to R/W, our weekend collaborative linkblog about language, literacy, and learning! Steven Pinker has a new book out, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, and Mother Jones likes it a lot. They’re geeking out over it and Pinker’s revelation that according to science, blah-de-blah grammar…