Hello, Spring! We’re glad you’re here. Please, join us for a game or two. Games Editor Al Rosenberg may not be able to remove herself from Hearthstone on her cell phone long enough to do much of anything, but other folks are having exciting gaming adventures. Readers, what are you playing this month?
#AdminProfessionalsDay: Aspen’s Executive Assistant By Day, Assassin By Night
It’s Administrative Professionals’ Day, and in honour of this event, I am celebrating me, who has been a badass executive level administrator for over a decade. After high school, college and university didn’t go so well for me. Money was short and I needed a job but I refused to get into food service, or go back…
Get Your Game on Wednesday
Howdy gaming gurus! Here’s hoping your week is going well. Not surprisingly we have Star Wars game coverage, but this week we also find lady Kerbals in space, new adventures for Finn and Jake, a studio’s good faith commitment to adding free-to-play female characters, and more. So put down your controller for a minute or…
Cook Your Comics: Avengers Party Snack Assembly Plan
Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out very soon, and I am excited. I would still be excited if it turned out the entire movie took place during the party at Tony Stark’s place featured in some of the promos. I’d like to see these characters hanging out and interacting. I fully believe they would make a…
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2 Brings Us Madam Satan!
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (writer), Robert Hack (artist), & Jack Morelli (letterer) Archie – Archie Horror April 15, 2015 After six months of trepidatious waiting, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has returned in all its macabre glory. If six months seems too long to wait, have no worries because issue #2…
Talking Romance Comics with Jacque Nodell & Megan Levens
After interviewing romance comic historian Jacque Nodell, I got the chance to sit down with Jacque and artist, Megan Levens, who drew Ares & Aphrodite, a contemporary romance comic written by Jamie S. Rich that is now available in trade. Megan has also drawn Madame Frankenstein (also written by Jamie S. Rich) and for the…
Our Future’s No Utopia But It’s Better Than The Past; There Is An X in “Sexuality” [Spoilers]
As often happens just before a notable change in Marvel status quo, several pages were leaked online from this upcoming Wednesday’s All-New X-Men #40, in which an original member of Marvel’s mutant team the X-Men is outed to us as gay by a teammate. More specifically, a past incarnation of an original member (currently hanging out…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Two Weeks of Comics Musical News in a Row!
Dominic Cooper Confirmed For Lead In Preacher We reported on the rumors a few weeks back, but Executive Producer Seth Rogen confirmed on Friday that Dominic Cooper will be playing Jesse Custer in the up-coming Preacher TV adaptation. The AMC show is aiming for a 2016 air date, and I think a preacher traveling across America with…
A Year of Sex and Revelation: The Wild Oats Project by Robin Rinaldi
The Wild Oats Project Robin Rinaldi Doubleday Canada March 17th 2015 Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review. What if for just one year you explored everything you’d wondered about sex, but hadn’t tried? The project was simple: An attractive, successful magazine journalist, Robin Rinaldi, would move into a…
Can You Spare a Brain? iZombie From Panel to Screen
Angel and Christa decided to undergo a little experiment when the CW premiered iZombie a few weeks ago. Christa had already read the majority of the comic series by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred before watching the show. Angel on the other hand watched the first two episodes of the show first and then read…
Movies that Shaped Me: Labyrinth
Labyrinth Directed by Jim Henson Written by Dennis Lee, Jim Henson (story), Terry Jones (screenplay) Starring: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud PG, 101 minutes 1986 On June 27th, 1986, I had been seven years old for exactly nine days when my parents took me to see Labyrinth in the theater. It was a foregone conclusion that we would go….
Inquisition Diaries #12: Cold Resistance +3
SPOILER WARNING: These diaries will contain spoilers for Dragon Age Inquisition (DAI), as well as its predecessors, Dragon Age: Origins (DAO) and Dragon Age II (DA2), and may also contain spoilers from the tie-in materials. If you’re new to this whole Dragon Age business and want to know what the hell I’m going on about,…