March 30, 2015

My First Improv Workshop

March 30, 2015

I’m one of those extroverted introverts. It’s not an oxymoron; it means that I can and do enjoy interacting with people in an energetic way in certain situations. I am comfortable and confident running a role-playing game for strangers at a con. Yet this past Saturday I was terrified to stand ...

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Mighty Marvel Monday!

March 30, 2015

So first thing’s first– Happy Birthday to my baby sister Tori and her boyfriend Matt, who are turning 33 and 25 respectively, because it’s my column and I’ll shoutout if I want to. Now on to the Marvel news, prefaced with this disclaimer: There were amazing Marvel-icious things happening ...

Roundtables

Cinderella! It Can Do Magic, Believe It Or Not: Feminist Fominist Foo! [GIFS]

March 30, 2015

Disney’s live action reboot of Cinderella is being billed as a feminist retelling of the classic tale, where Ella “isn’t just waiting for her prince” and demands to be accepted on her own terms. However, the movie’s apparent message that soldiering through mistreatment with a stiff upper lip is ...

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‘Home’ Defies Forecasts and Opens with a $54 Million Weekend

March 30, 2015

With a forecasted $30 million opening weekend and estimated $130 million production cost, Home sounded like it was on the road to being a box office flop. Showing that the critics aren’t always right, the movie was the weekend’s top seller and grossed $54 million domestically. Home, ...

Comics, Manga

Secret Doesn’t Hold Too Many Secrets: Manga Review

March 30, 2015

Secret, Vol. 1 Yoshiki Tonogai (W/A) Yen Press Secret tells the story of six high school students who are the only survivors of a terrible bus accident that killed the rest of their classmates, their homeroom teacher, and the bus driver. In the worst counseling session ever conducted by a ...

Comics, Interviews, Uncategorized

The Visual Interference of the Gods: Interview with Christian Ward of Ody-C

March 30, 2015

One of the most innovative and beautiful comics of the past year has been Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s Ody-C (Image Comics): a gender-swapped, psychedelic revisiting of the Odyssey in space — although, of course, it’s also much more than that. I talked to Christian Ward ...

Comics, Webcomics

Awesome Webcomics of April: Staff Picks

March 30, 2015

Hotblood Toril Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. NSFW The Wild West with centaurs. Need I say more? Ok, I will. James Rook, a Civil War veteran with limited options, and Asa Langley, a steel icon, get into wild shenanigans in the year of 1871. There’s violence, sex, ...

March 30, 2015

My First Improv Workshop

Mighty Marvel Monday!

Cinderella! It Can Do Magic, Believe It Or Not: Feminist Fominist Foo! [GIFS]

‘Home’ Defies Forecasts and Opens with a $54 Million Weekend

Secret Doesn’t Hold Too Many Secrets: Manga Review

The Visual Interference of the Gods: Interview with Christian Ward of Ody-C

Awesome Webcomics of April: Staff Picks

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