Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #37 James Roberts (W), Alex Milne (A), Joana Lafuente (C) IDW Publishing February 4th, 2015
Con Diaries: Boskone 52
Boskone is the annual science fiction and fantasy convention put on by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) in Boston, Mass. One of the reasons I attend this convention is its focus on the craft of science fiction, that is to say, there’s a focus on writing, science, art, and reading.
Weekend Review
Sleeping Dogs in the Year of the Ram? Wonder Woman’s Secret History? Steampunk Red Sonja? Exploding kittens? And… Aquaman — what a week!
Crowdfunding of the Week: Dames Making Games
March is right around the corner and it brings the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in California. Putting my own jealousy for those attending aside, this week’s Crowdfunding of the Week is to help the twenty-five scholarship recipients of Dames Making Games travel to GDC to represent women in games and network with their industry colleagues….
The DC Daily Planet: Aquaman Looks Great, World is Confused
Happy Friday! Today’s DC Daily Planet is brought to you by Jason Momoa’s killer ink, trident, and a smolder Flynn Rider would envy. Yes, it’s true. DC’s done the impossible, crusaders: they’ve made Aquaman sexy. Zack Snyder tweeted the first image of Momoa as Aquaman at just about 1AM this morning, and it’s so cool,…
A Look At Random House Canada’s Upcoming 2015 Titles
This month, Random House Canada invited bloggers to their headquarters to get a preview of some of their upcoming 2015 titles. It was a great time where pizza was eaten and awesome transitional slides featured Danny Castellano and Justin Timberlake were viewed. Alas, this isn’t about the lovely Danny Castellano, but about the books, and I’m here…
“But will he die on the way back to his home planet?” Teen Dog #1-4
Teen Dog #1-4 Jake Lawrence BoomBox The continuing adventures of a teen who’s also a dog, a teen dog, if you will, his best pals Mariella (cool girl) and Sara (quarterback), and his nemeses Maya (the psychic queen of chess) and Thug Pug (a thug who’s a pug). We had big dreams for Teen Dog….
Geek Spotlight: Emily Zeinner on Judge Dredd, Nail Art, and Unflattering Geek Clothing
WWAC Assistant Editor Claire Napier, was the first to alert me to the awesome nail art of Emily Zeinner. I went to Twitter to explore her and not only stumbled across awesome nail art, but also other great geek artwork and fashion projects. Zeinner is a San Francisco based artist, and fortunately took time out of…
Choose Your Words Carefully: Text Based Games
My love for reading and my love of gaming grew twined together; some of the first words I waded through were in A Link to the Past. Choose Your Own Adventure novels seemed like the best of both worlds. I could interact with the story in a meaningful, and often deadly-for-my-character, way by simply reading…
The Thursday Book Beat: Wonder Woman’s “Secret History” Wins American History Book Prize
Jill Lepore’s “The Secret History of Wonder Woman” awarded American History Book Prize Lepore’s in-depth look at the well-loved character’s history and influence was lauded by the New York Historical Society for its work in pushing “forward the frontiers of knowledge around the story of women’s rights as it retrieves crucial but forgotten history,” as…
Beauty in the Breakdown: The Wicked + The Divine
The Wicked + The Divine is a pretty cool comic, guys. You know this, I know this—hell, I’m pretty sure Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, and Matt Wilson know this. Lots of people have lots of different readings of it and Gillen has been kind enough to provide Writer’s Notes about his work. Still, I thought…
[NSFW] Sex Criminals Review: Lonely Sex Tourists
Sex Criminals #10 Matt Fraction (W), Chip Zdarsky (A) Image Comics Damn, I’m hungry. Thick Chicken has been a minor character in the last two issues. It’s the favorite indulgence of Jon’s new therapist, and Suzie confirms it in this issue, telling Jon that “[t]his chicken is so good I want it inside of me.”…
