It is eight o’clock in the morning and your fellow geek calls you up and announces a last-minute con she has decided to attend. Obviously, you have to go with her, but what to wear? It is now time to perform your own superhuman feat and put together an acceptable geek outfit from easily found…
![Developer(s) United Front Games Square Enix London Publisher(s) Square Enix Bandai Namco Games (Australia, New Zealand)[1] Director(s) Roger Donaldson Producer(s) Jeff O'Connell Feargus Carroll[2] Designer(s) Mike Skupa Programmer(s) Dave Roberts[3] Artist(s) Hani Ghazaleh[3] Joshua Lee[4] Writer(s) Jacob Krarup[5] Tim Carter Composer(s) Jeff Tymoschuk[6] Engine Proprietary engine with Havok physics Platform(s) Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 Xbox 360 Xbox One Release date(s) 14 August 2012[show] Genre(s) Action-adventure[9][10] Mode(s) Single-player Distribution Optical disc, download](https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sleeping-Dogs-Header-110x96.png)
Year of the Ram: A Love Letter to One Game and a Hopeful Future
Ringing in the New Year is a very special time for me and my family. Here there’s fireworks, flowers, lots of food, parades, red packets to be passed around, and lots of hugs and laughs with relatives we haven’t seen in months. Over in Hong Kong there are televised variety shows and a furious bidding…
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: Usagi Yojimbo Returns and Kirkman TV News
Usagi Yojimbo Returns in May with New On-Going Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo has become an independent comic legend over its 30 years of publication, and now a new on-going will debut in May from Dark Horse. This may be a good spot for new readers to get to know the titular character, a wandering samurai…
Cute Is Not Always Safe! Cover Stories: Judge a Book on Whether You’d Buy It
This time on Cover Stories, where we judge a book by the first face it presents… Ani-Imo: Volume 1 Haruko Kurumatani Yen Press The spine White! White looks clean and stands out. It’s confident. The font choices are all cute and the colour scheme is pleasant. I love a very round font; it looks so comfortable!…
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Movies that Shaped Me: [Rec]
I was bullied by my grandmother into successfully watching my first horror movie. It was Scream, and when I got too scared and tried to leave, my Taiwanese grandma snapped at me, “SIT DOWN. It’s only a movie.” My cousins and grandma had always loved spooking me into crying with Hong Kong B horror, but…
Bone Street Rumba: Half Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older
Half Resurrection Blues Daniel José Older Roc January 6 2015 Full disclosure: I am enthusiastic about the things I like. Being a fangirl is part of the reason why I love this WWAC gig. I went straight-smooth-serious into fanning hard for this book: I looked for the TV Tropes page; there was none yet, so…
I’m Loving Steven Universe
Once upon a time, a dear friend and cartoon animation buff recommended a new Cartoon Network show called Steven Universe. As one who was mostly ignorant of but eager to experience a new generation of cartoons, and having previously fallen head over heels for Adventure Time, Bee and Puppycat, and Gravity Falls thanks to this…
What We’re Playing: February
The winter chugs along, making staying inside gaming a better and better idea. Not that we need an excuse to spend the days rolling dice and wielding controllers. What are you all playing?
Mighty Marvel Monday
I return! Like a bad penny. Or Cassie Lang, because everyone agrees her death was basically fridging and stupid anyway. And now without further ado: This week(ish) in Marvel Above the Fold Probably the biggest headline, but just in case you missed it, Marvel and Sony have finally reached a joint custody agreement over Spider-Man,…
What Jonathan Jones Gets Wrong About Comics
…Pretty much everything. On the Guardian‘s Art and Design blog, art critic Jonathan Jones slammed the art of “the comic-book universe” for being “banal” and “lack[ing]…ambition and verve.” A reasonable criticism, if he’d given evidence to back it up. After all, many comics fans suffered through the epidemic of Greg Land SameFace Syndrome that swept…
Women As Superheroes: A Comic Drawing Workshop to Celebrate 40 Years of The Feminist Library
A free comic workshop led by artists Sally Jane Thompson, Rachael Smith, and Karen Rubins in London at The Feminist Library? I’d signed up faster than you can say sequential-art-salon-in-Southwark.
Review: 2000AD, Prog 1917
2000AD, Prog 1917 Writers: Various Artists: Various Rebellion Two stories come to an end in this week’s prog: one just in time, and one too soon. The former is “Ulysses Sweet, Maniac for Hire: Psycho-Therapist” (writer: Guy Adams; artists: Paul Marshall and Chris Blythe), which relied too heavily on flippant discussions of violence that were…