There’s always something buzzing in geek culture news at WWAC. Here are some of the stories that have been going around the internet this past week: – Jordanian comic creator Suleiman Bakhit is taking on extremist narrative and propaganda in the Middle East. He says he believes that the terrorist narrative is essentially “copying Joseph Campbell’s…
R/W: The Gauntlet Thrown Down
Writing Tips The challenge, should you choose to accept it, you must include at least one of the words on this Buzzfeed list of “old-timey” words in your next conversation. Does that sound like a bunch of stultiloquence to you? Well, whoever said a little tommyrot was ever bad for you? So get your monkeyshine on…
Merry Scary Christmas: Silent Night, Deadly Night
Welcome to WWAC’s Merry Scary Christmas: twelve days of thrills, chills, deadly santas, melancholy, and murder. In part one of the series, Kayleigh reviewed Batman Returns. This time she braves Silent Night, Deadly Night. Silent Night, Deadly Night Starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Linnea Quigley Directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr. 1984 Christmas Eve…
Multifarious: Space Art and GIF Technology
Welcome back to Multifarious, our weekend arts linkblog. What’s new in our own personal art worlds? What’s new in unusual art? PasteDesign has discovered the best thing. The best thing! There is now a giphoscope! The Giphoscope looks a bit like a haunted rolodex, with a moment from a film playing forever inside. It’s a low tech creation…
Merry Scary Christmas: Batman Returns
Welcome to WWAC’s Merry Scary Christmas: twelve days of thrills, chills, deadly santas, melancholy, and murder. In this first part, Kayleigh looks at perennial Christmas favourite, Batman Returns. Batman Returns Starring Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken Directed by Tim Burton 1992 Batman Returns is the scariest superhero film ever made. Dissect the…
Kickstarter of the Week: Seeing Him
Finding love is often complicated. Kate Carrington is ready to settle down except she hasn’t had any luck finding someone to settle down with. One night, she crosses paths with an attractive, successful doctor named Adam Ortíz. Oh and Adam happens to be a trans-man. In the Seeing Him Kickstarter, creator Kia Crawford aims to…
The DC Daily Planet: No One Cares About Superman’s Backstory
Happy weekend, crusaders! Soon, I’ll be leaving my 9-to-5 (okay, 8-to-4) and beginning my real job: making approximately eight thousand various treats for upcoming gift swaps, parties, and giving away to people I don’t know well enough to shop for. If you, too, are searching for the perfect symbol of your financial status and friendship…
Disappointment Again: Batgirl #37 is Transphobic
Batgirl #37 is transphobic. I wish that I could leave it at that. I wish I could make my feelings come across with those simple words and get people to understand. I wish that people wouldn’t defend it as unintentional, focusing on the possibility that there wasn’t malevolence in the creation and distribution of the…
Gift Guide: Donations
It’s Winter in the Northern hemisphere, now. That means snow for some of us, and a lot of it. Where there isn’t snow, there’s rain, wind, and colder temperatures. It’s a good time to give, but giving shouldn’t be done without careful consideration or out of habit. It’s important to be informed about the charities, NGOs,…
Short & Sweet: Spider-Sagas
Spider-Verse #1 Dan Slott, Skottie Young, Robbie Thompson, Katie Cook (W) Humberto Ramos, Dennis Medri, Jake Parker, Katie Cook (A) Marvel Comics Fun, yet so, so confusing. There’s this creepy family of … I don’t know, energy vampires? For sport, they hunt Spider people. And eat them. It’s quite gross. The spider people, of course,…
Bitch Planet is All of Your Orwellian Mojo World Nightmares Remade Anew
Cover: Bitch Planet #1, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro. Image Comics, 2014. In the slough of excited tweets, glowing reviews, and general fervor surrounding the premier issue of Bitch Planet, written by 2014 Best Writer Eisner Award nominee Kelly Sue DeConnick and drawn by Valentine De Landro, I encountered but one naysayer. Let’s…
Life Geek! 11/16/14-12/10/14
Life Geek! is our bi-weekly lifestyle feature where we offer readers a glimpse into our geeky lives. Claire I found! A mechanic! Who will explain! How things work to me! And it’s that time (winter) when keeping the bike clean is super-necessary. So it’s been scrubbing time this week. My Operation Margarine review is lagging,…
