The annual Jack Vasel Memorial Fund Auction is live In time for the holidays! The auction being hosted at the Board Game Geek website raises funds for the The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund. The fund raises and distributes funds to help gamers in their hour of need. When Tom Vasel, lost his son in 2011, the…
M|O|O|N Knight: Electronic Sounds To Commit Hyperviolence To
The relaunch of Moon Knight by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, and Jordie Bellaire has been critically acclaimed for good reason. Getting rid of the inaccurately portrayed mental illness Marc Spector had been shackled with, and shedding his supporting cast in favor of different characters and drone equipment, has worked out in Moon Knight’s favor. The…
[GIFs] A Trip Down Fear Street: Switched #31
Despite the end of Halloween, the Fear Street reread project is going strong — keeping the horror alive all year long! Tagline A mind is a terrible thing to lose. Synopsis Two best friends, Nicole and Lucy, learn how to switch bodies with one another, but Nicole learns some dark secrets about her best friend!…
#WWACTV Presents Diversity and Whitewashing on Television: Whitewashing 101 (1)
This is a four part series looking at the representation of race on television both in terms of how far we’ve come and what we have yet to accomplish. What Is Whitewashing and Why Should We Care? Whitewashing is what we call it when characters who are originally non-white (people of colour) are recast or rebooted as white….
November Staff Picks: Comics
Buffy: Season 10, Vol. 1 – I Wish Christos Gage (w), Rebekah Isaacs (a) Dark Horse November 25, 2014 As a full-fledged Buffy fangirl, I will probably read these for as long as they are around — though I do wait for them to come out in trade. Anyway, magic is back, and Buffy and…
Game Review: Remember Me is Not to be Forgotten
Meet Nilin. She is the star of DONTNOD’s 2013 video game Remember Me, but you may never have gotten to meet her if DONTNOD had conformed to the close-minded vision of some major gaming companies. The fact that Nilin was a woman meant that when the game was shown to potential publishers, many were discouraged…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: All Interviews, All the Time
News has been scant lately (probably due to a Halloween hang-over), so, instead, let’s give creators the chance to talk in a rapid-fire, all-interview news post! First up, Artist Jillian Tamaki Talks About This One Summer, the award-winning graphic novel that came out this summer. I am kicking myself for not reading this yet, especially after seeing…
The Wicked, The Divine, and The Mythology—Part 3: Baal and Inanna
This series intends to briefly point towards the original mythological material, compare it to the Gillen and McKelvie comic adaptation of it (The Wicked and The Divine), and speculate about possible meanings and foreshadowing by using a bit of background knowledge. Part 1: Amaterasu and Lucifer Part 2: The Morrigan and Baphomet The end of the first…
Concrete Park and Art: Puryear Purloins Painters’ Perfections
It was the cover that caught me. Concrete Park: You Send Me Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander Dark Horse Comics October 1st, 2014 Talking to Bleeding Cool about his “artist’s journey,” Tony Puryear, illustrator and co-writer of Concrete Park, said: I majored in art at Brown [University], loving Gauguin but doing very indulgent, Morris Louis-inspired color field paintings….
I’m Loving: Harlequin Manga Adaptation Previews
I’m loving — I mean I am LOVING — the existence of Harlequin Josei manga. Good grief! I’m loving it with all the passion and fire of a green-eyed shipping magnate! I’m trembling with anger like a handsome golden-eyed playboy at the thought of his brother’s beautiful ex-wife with a common teacher and at the thought of…
Calling All WWACgamers
The gaming industry has expanded to include a wide variety of games well beyond the PC and console titles that have dominated the industry for so long. Mobile applications and social media games are now housed under the same umbrella as games like Call of Duty and Dragon Age, but some of the more elitist…
November Staff Picks: Games
Far Cry 4 Ubisoft Montreal Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Far Cry 2 was the reason I learned to build desktop computers. I wanted to play it on a machine that could handle how incredibly beautiful these games are at their maximum settings. The Far Cry franchise is known for its first-person shooter…
