Angel and I had a blast at this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF); a free festival for the public where they can check out cool indie comics, creators and panels. I wrote about my experience of the festival which you can read here. We grabbed a ton of comics but couldn’t review our entire haul due to…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Toy Companies, Lady Villains, and the MCU’s TV Problem
It’s Monday, which means it’s another Mighty Marvel Monday. We start off this week with a round up of the Marvel-icious content published on WWAC this past week. First up, Funko Fanatic Wendy Browne interviewed Funko Marketing Manager Hilary Gray about their Marvel Collector Corps boxes. I’m also proud to say that one of my…
This Week in WWAC History: Character Design in Games and Comics
Who are your favorite characters in comics and video games? Would you change something about their design if you could? When you invest your time, money, and emotions into a character, sometimes it’s difficult to understand creators’ choices to change (or not change) a character’s look. In the WWAC archives, there are no shortage of opinions,…
Anime At 30 – What To Do When You Experience Anime Burn Out
I’ve been a fan of anime for almost 20 years. It occurred to me recently that my fanniversary is around the same time as Sailor Moon’s 20th anniversary. And knowing that there are young women and men watching Sailor Moon for the first time with the new Crystal adaptation, I’m beginning to feel like an…
Shinbun Saturday: Tokyo Uses Mangaka to Promote the 2020 Paralympics
Hi everyone! Vernieda here with another edition of Shinbun Saturday, bringing you this week’s highlights in manga news. The weather here in the Mid-Atlantic has been teasing us with brief glimpses of the sun, providing a timely reminder that it’s supposed to be spring and that summer is only a month away! And you know…
Getting Our Hands Dirty in Gardening Games
Games allow us to do a great many things: fly, fight ghosts, garden out of season. While gardening may not be the most magical of skills, nor the most common topic for gaming, it can be almost as rewarding as the real thing when it’s done right with few of the downsides.
Kesha vs Dr. Luke
Content warning: this article discusses rape and abuse. The Kesha case against Dr. Luke now has it’s own Wikipedia page, which means that this shitshow of humans failing to be decent is officially ingrained in the collective unconscious. This lawsuit is unprecedented in a lot of ways, but legal disputes between musicians and their record labels…
DC Daily Planet: Hello, Goodbye
Hello all! One thing before we get started today: this is my last DC Daily Planet post for the near future! I’ve had some exciting opportunities come up that I need to devote some time to — but fear not! I’ll (hopefully) be back and bringing you the very soap box laden news in no…
New Mutants Movie: Where’s the Karma? #whitewashedOUT
Earlier this month, the hashtag #whitewashedOUT blew up on Twitter, exclaiming the lack of roles and representation of Asian people in mainstream Western media. This came after the release of an image of Scarlett Johansson in the Ghost in the Shell live action movie and Tilda Swinton as a white Ancient One in the Doctor Strange…
Searching for Glendower: Reflecting on The Raven Cycle
In 2012 Scholastic took the Young Adult book world by storm when they published The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, the first book in the new Raven Cycle series. It stared a young girl named Blue Sargent, who lives with her aunts, all of whom are clairvoyant, in a small town. Blue’s life may be unconventional…
Interview with Farel Dalrymple, Creator of Pop Gun War: Gift
For the most part, I prefer my comics fast and hard-hitting: Good defeating evil in physical combat or gruff antiheroes solving their problems by shooting them in the face. There’s nothing like that vicarious adrenal spike I feel when the Punisher, bleeding from shrapnel wounds that would kill anyone who wasn’t the Punisher, rounds a corner and opens…
The Thursday Book Beat: Nancy Drew Series Deemed “Too Female” for CBS’s Fall Lineup
Welcome back to another week of book news, dear readers! We’re headed towards a long weekend here in Canada, and I’m looking forward to catching up on my reading. Happily, I’ll be bumping up Han Kang’s book The Vegetarian on my TBR to celebrate her winning the Man Booker International Prize! She is the first…
