I love a good zombie story. I also love a good science fiction story. Put ’em together, throw in a bicycle and what do you get? Pedal Zombies! Pedal Zombies is a collection of feminist stories that provide a unique look at the upcoming zombie apocalypse. With bicycles. It’s actually the third volume of the Bikes…
DC Daily Planet: Dan Didio Talks DCU and Zack Snyder Spills on DCCU
DC Comics has been bubbling with news this week, from major casting announcements featuring Chris Pine, a new Supergirl villain and 400 mothers and daughters, a possible meeting between DC and Robot Chicken, DC head Dan Didio reveals the plan for DC Comics upcoming line, and Zack Snyder reveals bits of his plan for the…
Keep Beach City Weird: A Quick Guide to Steven Universe
Have you ever wanted to watch Steven Universe, but not sure where to start? Have you ever wanted a fan of everything cartoons to show you the way into Steven Universe? Then don’t fall out of the Warp Pad as I give you a very quick and easy guide into the world of Steven Universe…
Sequential Sartorial: Fetishists, Unlike Emma Frost, Understand Occasion
Welcome to the X-Men, where second-skin garmentry is commonplace—hope you survive the experience! Amongst the X-Men is a villain-turned-teacher (turned heroine, though never nice); her name is Emma Frost. For most of her history, she’s worn all-white, though recently she turned to all-black. But just as often as she’s been monochromatic, she’s been clothed in outfits…
Crossplaying at Con: Becoming the Invisible Man
It’s probable that most people, seeing me, would consider me to be fairly traditionally femme. Take a glance at my author icon: it’s all lipstick and lashes and one of the few times I got my hair to look like I wanted it to. I would estimate that in my adult life, I tend to get…
Disciple of the Witchblade
When Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri and all those X-Men artists I loved packed up and started Image Comics and its various subsidiaries, I followed, mesmerized by the shiny covers and promises of badass babes. This was the age of the Bad Girl: empowered women in spine-violating, perky-nippled poses. Somewhere deep inside me, my inner…
Feminists in Love
Relationships are a lot of work! Half of the fun is finding a love interest, and the other half is working through issues that crop up while romancing. One of the most important aspects is whether or not you agree on societal issues and how differences in viewpoints are handled. Read all about how WWACers…
The Thursday Book Beat: Reading Rainbow’s Bringing Back Your Books on Netflix
Reading Rainbow Volume 1 to delight new readers on Netflix Be honest: you totally started singing the song. Millions of kids learned to love books over the show’s 23-year history, including yours truly, and Netflix will be bringing it back for a new generation. Some of my favorite books as a kid were ones that…
Behind the Rainbow Table – My Time Selling Queer Comics at SDCC!
First, a little background. My fiancée Ann and I have been creating the 18+ queer webcomic Grave Impressions for about three years now – it’s a noir mystery about a gay man aspiring to be a detective and the cases that turn his life upside down. Last year we had the spectacular fortune to partner…
Rad Women Writers You Should Be Reading Now, Part 1: Experimental Prose
Last weekend I was hanging out with the ladies, trudging from one bar to another arm in arm like a miniature dyke march, when I was reminded of something I hadn’t really thought about since college. I was talking with them about one or another book I was reading and somebody said to me “you…
My Left or Your Right? The Newbie Friendliness of Manga
Picture, if you will, a fresh-faced fan walking into a comic book store on Free Comic Book Day. She picks up a haul of titles that look interesting. Hey, it’s free! Perfect opportunity to try something new out, right? Included in that haul is a sampler put out by a North American manga publisher. How awesome!…
As the WWAC Turns: We Reveal Our Soap Opera Passions
Much maligned soap operas are enjoying another critical renaissance — is Downton Abbey a soap? Game of Thrones? The possible soap opera-ness of these prestige TV shows is a hot topic, but traditional soap operas themselves are not. But what about General Hospital, Passions, Neighbours, EastEnders and K Dramas? These aren’t so fashionable to praise….
