Trigger Warning: Child Abuse By now, Canadians know the name Jeffrey Baldwin well. The boy, only five years old and twenty-one pounds when he died, spent years confined with his three siblings in his grandparents’ home, slowly starving.
Interview with Caldecott Winner Erin Stead
Erin Stead’s artwork is just beautiful. You can frame pages from any children’s book she has illustrated and you are looking at a piece of strong stand-alone art. Even zooming in on minor images does not detract from the effect. Take a look for yourself: The large images are gorgeous:And close-ups of the details from…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Bye, Steve
Happy post-4th, American Marvellites! Hope you all had a great holiday (or didn’t, if you aren’t in America/don’t care) and are just sitting around thinking about Chris Evans wearing spandex, like a true patriot.
Crime Comic Review: Amy Devlin, Lost and Found
Amy Devlin, Lost and Found Christina Weir (W) Nunzio DeFilippis (W) T J Kirsch (A) Oni Press I mentioned on our twitter that despite my love of prose and television crime stories, I don’t feel much pull from graphic crime fiction. I don’t know if my lack of interest is real, I don’t know if…
Throwing Popcorn: My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Hasbro It took me a little while to warm up to the series that made tiny colorful ponies cool again for little girls (and unfortunately, cool to deviant perv adult men). Fans who fondly remember the original will love this one. Just beware of the Bronies when hanging out…
Kickstarter of the Week: RPG dice for the visually impaired
Jessica Goldsmith wants to try something ambitious and use 3D printing to create braille-friendly dice for the visually impaired.
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules now out!
Let’s talk role-playing games. Not the kind with a mouse and raids and guilds (although that’s good too) – but the kind with 20-sided dice and books. Some of you already play. Awesome. The rest of you may have heard of the grandaddy of tabletop RPGs, Dungeons & Dragons. This was my first RPG when…
Nostalgia Nexus: Fire and Luck
Excalibur Series Chris Claremont (W) Alan Davis (A) Marvel So, I started reading Excalibur mainly due to a girl crush on Rachel Summers. She was bad ass, clad in red leather and spikes, with the power to devour worlds. But add in Kitty Pride, her dragon Lockheed, and Nightcrawler? Yeah. I’m there.
Dogears: Alien Psychiatry
The Fire Witness Lars Kepler Random House Canada Lars Kepler is a pseudonym for a Swedish husband and wife writing team: Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril. The Fire Witness is the third book about Chief Inspector Joona Linna as he figures out a tricky murder only he can solve.
Tyrant: The Arab/Muslim Experience and Whitewashing
Tyrant, a new FX series, premiered on Tuesday, June 24. It centers on Bassam (Barry) Al Fayeed, son of a dictator of a make believe Arab nation, who finally returns home with his American family after decades away. If it was any other show, you could say that the first episode was solid and definitely…
Deep Gravity Preview: Jettisoning Your Space Stalker
We don’t tend to post previews, because you can get them just about anywhere. Boring! I’m making an exception, because America-centric pop culture fandom is a mess this week, videos of violent attacks on trans women are circling and being +liked, world culture is suffering for America’s SCOTUS having decided that corporations can persecute women through the…
Review: Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Bird Box Josh Malerman Ecco / Harper Collins I received a copy of this book via the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Close your eyes. You probably have a pretty good sense of what’s around you. You see it all the time. But would you be able to go about your day like…
