It’s Wednesday, gaming fans. Raise your hand if you’ve spent all your money in the Steam summer sale. Excellent. And raise your hand it you’ve been up late scoping out all the E3 news. Uh huh, no worries, I get it. Don’t let it consume your life; there’s other gaming news out there in the great…
Beauty & the Geek: Casual Costuming, Steampunk Style
In my last two Beauty and the Geek posts, I focused on Stealth Cosplay. Specifically stealth cosplay modeled after Anya Corazon and Cassie Sandsmark. This time I wanted to try something different, inspired by my time spent at Collective Con, Jacksonville’s first big pop culture convention, where I dressed up in what I call “Casual…
The Lord of the Rings, The Magicians, and Finally Learning How Not to Nerd-shame
I’ve always had a lot of opinions about The Lord of the Rings and all of them were always correct. Between the ages of 10 to 15, The Lord of the Rings books were my books. I read them every summer—thanks to my less-than-great school system with no summer reading requirements—and thought they were the…
Shenmue 3! At E3! Can Ya Be-3-v It?
Hey, did you hear? The old Realistic Gaming mines! They’ve gawn an’ opened them back up! This town… maybe this ol’ town of Shenmue can rise up once again, really become something. Even after seceding from the once-great state of Sega *tobacco spit*. Shenmue III. Uhuh! Yup.
Who’s Responsible?: Spider-Gwen #4
Spider-Gwen #4 Jason Latour (Scripter), Robbi Rodriguez (Penciller) Rico Renzi (Colourist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer) Robbi Rodriguez (Cover Artist) Spider-Gwen #4 is probably my favorite issue of the series yet. There’s a lot less action in this issue. There’s no Vulture. No Frank Castle. No running from the cops. The conflict in this issue is all…
Eat all the Oreos: An Interview with Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a story about a very funny sixteen year old boy who is not quite out of the closet. He’s come to terms with it himself, but he’s not ready to share it with the rest of the world…except for one person. And that person is Blue, an anonymous,…
Muppets, Dresses, Yarn, and Co-Op: Nintendo’s Exceedingly Cute E3 Presentation
Nintendo’s E3 presentation pretty much erupted my Twitter timeline into explosions of surprise and joy, after cynicism and low expectations. Starting the show with honest to god Muppet versions of some of the head honchos of Nintendo that morphed into representations of characters from Star Fox Zero, due for a release this winter. We saw…
KPop in YA Fiction, Please Hold the Racism: A Review of Hello, I Love You by Katie Stout
Hello, I Love You Katie Stout St. Martin’s Griffin June 9, 2015
Jurassic World Is Lazy, But You Knew That And Saw It Anyway, Didn’t You?
As I was sitting down in the cinema with trailers were going by, I thought, Man, some twenty-plus years since Jurassic Park and—wait, that’s not right. Because, lest we forget, not too soon after the first film in 1993 there was 1997’s Lost World: Jurassic Park, and then Jurassic Park III in 2001. I say ‘lest we forget,’…
Game Chef: Now We’re Cooking With Games
Game Chef , an open contest for game design based on the concept of competitive cooking shows, opened on Friday and goes until June 21st. This year’s theme is “A Different Audience” and the ingredients are “Abandon, Dragonfly, Stillness, and Dream.” Anyone can submit a game to Game Chef as long as it incorporates the…
Accolades and Imprisonment for Cartoonists in Iran
Political cartoons can be subversive, pointing out weaknesses in government organizations and leadership. Iran is a country with an especially deep cultural history of political cartooning. It’s so integral there that the municipality of Tehran even sponsors the House of Cartoon, which hosts exhibits and education in cartooning, hoping for cross-cultural events which mix Iranian cartoonists’ work…
