Year: 2014

Addiction, Self-injury, and Women In Comics

Trigger Warning: This post discusses drug addiction, self-injury, and other mental health issues. In September, DC landed itself in some seriously hot water when a proposal went out for artists to draw Harley Quinn naked and attempting to electrocute herself in the bathtub. The proposal, dreamed up by series writer Jimmy Palmiotti, drew quick condemnation…

Our Top Ten Posts of 2013–According to You

You liked these posts a lot, last year. Hey, we liked them too! Here’s to a great 2014, with many more interviews and essays for you to enjoy. What is geek culture? Tess Fowler, Brian Wood, and Harassment in the Comic Industry Interview With Kate Leth Scott Lobdell admits to harassing MariNaomi and apologizes Look…

Store Review: Alakazam Comics

Alakazam Comics Phone: (949) 854-3744 Email: alakazamcomics@aol.com Address: 4237 Campus Drive, Suite B162, Irvine, California, 92612 USA Nestled between a bakery and a lunch place in the strip mall across the street from the University of California at Irvine, intrepid cyclists (or slightly more intrepid SoCal motorists) will find Alakazam Comics. (If you prefer more…

News & Things: Buying comics in 2014

News BOOM! Box Announces Stevenson, Ellis and Allen’s New Lumberjanes Series Teenage girls versus yetis. Teenage girls versus yetis. Teenage girls versus yetis. UK Box Office Suffers Biggest Fall For 20 Years Some blame movies that try to attract multiple demographics, rather than focus on one. I blame the lack of a Spice World reboot….

Commerce in Moominland

Sorry about the title. I can’t resist a pun. The new Moomin website, announced earlier today on Twitter by Drawn & Quarterly (who publish the beautiful Moomin strip collections), is not as baldly mercenary as all that. Even if it was–well. What do you want from a Moomin official site? What do I want? I don’t…

Clara and the Doctor

Review: The Time of the Doctor

After a rocky series 6 and 7, Doctor Who’s triumphant 50th anniversary special seemed to presage a return to the heights of Steven Moffat’s first year as showrunner. In retrospect, perhaps there was no way for him to live up to those renewed expectations

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