Meteor Prince Meca Tanaka Viz Media January 6, 2015 Disclaimer: I received this copy from Viz Media for an honest review. Like many a shoujo manga heroine, Hako Natsuno just wants to get through high school. It’s bad enough that she seems to be the unluckiest person on the planet, without having to deal with…
TableTop Day: Bringing Board Games to the Streets
International TableTop Day 2015 took place on April 11th. This is a yearly event created in 2013 by Geek and Sundry, the producers of the TableTop web series, to celebrate tabletop gaming in all forms, especially board games. Since then it has continued the profound impact the series has had on board game culture by…
My New Stark Industries Hot Topic Jacket Needs to Be Available in Plus Sizes
Hot Topic has a new line of Avengers themed dresses and jackets and I am ordering all of it. ALL OF IT. But first, this gorgeous Stark Industries jacket. Picture me: bombshell ginger curls, a black miniskirt, much booty, and this kicking retro bomber jacket. Picture us rolling into a con together: greasemonkey Pink Ladies…
Creativity Matters: Veronica Berns, Ph.D. Designs Comic Book on Quasicrystals
As the spring semester winds down at colleges and universities, many graduating students are putting the finishing touches on their theses. For Veronica Berns, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, last year’s finishing touches involved illustrating and designing a comic book. “At some point last year when I was putting together my thesis,…
A Chat With Lois Lane: Fallout’s Gwenda Bond
I got to chat with the author of the upcoming young adult novel Lois Lane: Fallout, based on one of DC Comics’ most iconic characters. The book will hit stores on May 1st, but before that, Gwenda Bond discusses a few things with me such as her first encounter with Lois Lane, what this character means…
Attack on Titan’s Gargantuan (Sales) Impact
Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人, Shingeki no Kyojin) is a force to be reckoned with. And no, I’m not talking about the monstrous, human-eating, gigantic Titans that represent chaos and xenophobia for the series’ protagonists. I’m talking about pure, cold, hard capitalism here. Numbers, numbers, numbers, money, money, money.
The Twin Peaks Log: S.2 E.8
Welcome to our biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks where we are working our way through every. Single. Episode. Some of us are regulars and some of us newbies, but none of our experiences are the same. So get yourself a damn fine cup of coffee, watch along with us, and feel free to chime in…
What We’re Playing: April
Hello, Spring! We’re glad you’re here. Please, join us for a game or two. Games Editor Al Rosenberg may not be able to remove herself from Hearthstone on her cell phone long enough to do much of anything, but other folks are having exciting gaming adventures. Readers, what are you playing this month?
#AdminProfessionalsDay: Aspen’s Executive Assistant By Day, Assassin By Night
It’s Administrative Professionals’ Day, and in honour of this event, I am celebrating me, who has been a badass executive level administrator for over a decade. After high school, college and university didn’t go so well for me. Money was short and I needed a job but I refused to get into food service, or go back…
Get Your Game on Wednesday
Howdy gaming gurus! Here’s hoping your week is going well. Not surprisingly we have Star Wars game coverage, but this week we also find lady Kerbals in space, new adventures for Finn and Jake, a studio’s good faith commitment to adding free-to-play female characters, and more. So put down your controller for a minute or…
Cook Your Comics: Avengers Party Snack Assembly Plan
Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out very soon, and I am excited. I would still be excited if it turned out the entire movie took place during the party at Tony Stark’s place featured in some of the promos. I’d like to see these characters hanging out and interacting. I fully believe they would make a…
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2 Brings Us Madam Satan!
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (writer), Robert Hack (artist), & Jack Morelli (letterer) Archie – Archie Horror April 15, 2015 After six months of trepidatious waiting, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has returned in all its macabre glory. If six months seems too long to wait, have no worries because issue #2…
