Look around you—someone is playing a phone game. They’re addictive, often free, and do anything they can to keep you coming back. Companies pour tons of money into marketing them, everything from infiltrating your dating apps to throwing boobs at your face. They are apps disguised as games disguised as apps to get you to be…
Stay Quiet: The Staged Body of Phantom Pain’s Sniper
Spoilers, alright? Quiet is the single woman combatant in the list of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain‘s primary characters. Men outnumber women nine to one in this list, at time of writing, if personality-imprinted AIs count as people (nine to three if not). Other than Paz, the tiny blonde latina beauty who was…
The Thursday Book Beat: Spotlight on Diversity Issues in Literature
Publishers asked to identify diversity within ranks in Lee & Low survey Diversity issues have sparked conversations within the book community, both online and off, but Lee & Low has brought action to the discussion. The diversity survey hopes to set a benchmark for where the publishing industry is at with regards to gender-based, racial,…
Books that Shaped Me: Sabriel
I have always been a voracious reader. When I was younger I’d read almost anything: the boring backs of church bulletins, cracker boxes, and classified ads for car sales when I still had years to go before getting my driver’s license. Many of the books I read helped to mold me into the person I…
Intent of the Cover Art: A Novice Perspective Gets Unjudge-y
Recently, Scout Comics forwarded a press release to WWAC spotlighting two upcoming titles, Class Action #1, October 2015, and Henchgirl #2, also October 2015. The covers in the email were large and hard to miss. I’m sure that was the point. And so began the visceral reactions. It started with a simple question like WTF?…
Tiffany Fox: Our Future Batgirl?
There are two things I love more than anything, in Batman, and those two things are: the villains, and the batgirls. The villains and the batgirls have so much textured history in them that it should be a crime not to like them.
