It was with heavy heart that I donned my Abzan clan shirt and pins as an act of defiance towards the events of the Tarkir block in Magic: The Gathering’s latest series of expansions. Dragons have returned from extinction to the plane of Tarkir thanks to a time traveling meddler named Sarkhan Vol, and while…
Get Your Game On Wednesday Reflects on Jumping, Tasty Beets and Race
Howdy, fellow game enthusiasts! From eating your vegetables to game incubators for women to jumping around a lot, this week’s news has something for everyone. I know I say that every week, but I can’t help it if it’s true. Give yourself a break from the day (you’ve earned it!), and take a peek at…
YA Bloggers Read Gotham Academy, A Roundtable
At the start of the year, I thought about the ways in which comics could market itself more successfully to a wider audience. More specifically, how can Marvel and DC Comics sell certain titles to an audience that isn’t already tapped into comics (or at least into their vast universes) but who would love some of their current…
Farewell, Girls With Slingshots
Girls With Slingshots Danielle Corsetto (W & A) girlswithslingshots.com
AMC’s Preacher has a Cassidy
The casting news for AMC’s Preacher adaptation continues. First they announced Ruth Negga as Tulip, then Ian Colletti as Arseface. Now it’s Joe Gilgun — from Misfits and This is England — as the hard-drinking, substance-abusing, poor-decision-making Irish vampire Cassidy. And I’m actually okay with that. It took me a little while to come around…
Quick Change Cosplay: Jem Jamming Around
It is eight o’clock in the morning, and your fellow geek calls you up and announces a last-minute con she has decided to attend. Obviously, you have to go with her, but what to wear? It is now time to perform your own superhuman feat and put together an acceptable geek outfit from easily found…
Jem Jam: “Starbright” Parts 2 and 3
2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Jem, the beloved 80s cartoon series. Jem and the Holograms have never been bigger, as 2015 will also see the release of a live action film based on the show, a new comic book series published by IDW, and a continuing line of collectible fashion dolls from Integrity Toys….
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: Process, Process, Process
Too often, comic fans don’t know what goes on behind the scenes to see what work goes into making an individual issue–you don’t exactly get to have a ‘making of’ documentary when it comes to film or TV. This week, a number of really interesting interviews came out on just how an indie comic comes…
Rubens Won’t Save You: You Don’t Get to Use Art History to Justify Violence Against Women in Comics
Content warning: we’re talking rape imagery and rape culture. You’re in an elegant gallery, looking up at a statue of a woman and a man. The man has his arms around the woman. Her face is contorted in fear. Tears stream from her eyes. “Wow,” think you, the art critic. “What an emotionally raw and…
We Must, We Must…Support Janelle Asselin’s Kickstarter for Romance Comics Anthology!
How perfectly serendipitous. I recently interviewed the amazing Jacque Nodell, a romance comic historian, about her site Sequential Crush and her research in romance comics. When I asked her if she thought there was a current romance genre in comics, she said while there are comics with “romantic elements and romantic fare from overseas, such…
Secondhand Memories and Cell Phone Novels: An Interview with Takatsu
Technological advances, the invention of the internet, and the so-called “Digital Revolution” have undoubtedly impacted our daily lives. The ways in which we communicate with one another have drastically changed since my birth in the 1980s. The internet has especially helped to bring about the global “democratization of knowledge” and information, which has lead to…
Rat Queens Wins GLAAD Media Award
The GLAAD Media Awards, granted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. Each year, they honor excellence in print and digital media, television, movies and comic books. This…