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Goldilocksing the Cons: Which Gaming Con is for You?
With 2016 wrapping up, it’s already time to start planning which gaming conventions I want to attend in 2017. Not sure, how to choose the convention that’s right for you? Take a gander at my mini reviews from 2016 to help decide for yourself.
“Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Prez!” Re-Electing DC’s First Teen President
Like many Discman-clutching mall goths lurking in Waldenbooks in the early 2000s, I first discovered Prez Rickard, First Teen President of the USA, in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Issue #54, “The Golden Boy,” is the standout story in the seventh trade paperback, elevating an obscure footnote in DC Comics’ vast library to an acid-soaked Christ allegory….
When The Moon Was Ours is Beautifully Intersectional
When The Moon Was Ours Marie-Anne McLemore St. Martin’s Press October 4th, 2016 Disclaimer: An Advanced Reader’s Copy (ARC) of the book was provided by the publisher for an honest review. Anna-Marie McLemore’s When the Moon Was Ours asks us to suspend our belief that girls can spill out of water towers and grow roses out…
Cover Girl: What’s Going On With Captain Marvel?
Recently Comicosity shared a preview of Power Man & Iron Fist #9 and the cover caught my eye because it’s… weird. The perspective seems off, the character’s body seems unusually squishy, and the gloomy colour palate makes the whole thing seem dull and bleak. The cover is by Sanford Greene, who’s done lots of incredible work in…
Thursday Book Beat: Hermoine’s Hiding Books, Writers Trust Awards, and Laws that Require Reading
Hi book lovers! Ashley here again! Did you miss me? I missed you! It was a heck of a week with midterm exams and my part time advocate job so unfortunately the only things I was reading were my textbooks and policy texts.
Navigating Towards Home: Fresh Off the Boat’s Season 3 Premiere
so, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. never enough for both. —”diaspora blues” by Ijeoma Umebinyuo It didn’t take more than two minutes of Fresh Off the Boat‘s season 3 premiere before I got goosebumps from three sentences of dialogue.
Ignorance is Not Bliss in Start Over Again
Start Over Again H-P Lehkonen TW: Discussion of suicidal ideation and mental illness When you encounter a cartoonist through a webcomic or a long-running series, you often don’t get a grasp on the full range of their capabilities. It’s exciting to take an artist out of their initial context and see how they fare with…
I Asked A Bunch of Marvel Men About Their Feminist Agendas
And only three answered. After Chelsea Cain was run off from Twitter by the baying of hounds affronted by a word (“feminist”), I decided to ask Cain’s peers, co-workers and higher-ups a question. Joelle Jones’ cover for the final issue of Mockingbird featured heroine Bobbi Morse in a t-shirt that read ASK ME ABOUT MY…
Get Your Game on Wednesday
Happy Wednesday, gaming lovelies! The first week of November is a doozy! With so much going on, let’s jump right to the news! Gaming is my life! For those who love all things Blizzard (Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone), the official convention, Blizzcon 2016, kicks off this weekend. Although the physical event is sold out, they do offer…
Black Heroism and “The Man” in Luke Cage
So now—Luke Cage is a hero. The arc of his heroism passes from the (messy) pilot into the end of the fourth episode, when he announces to the press that his name is Luke Cage. For some reason, I suppose. On the one hand, the rationale for his involvement with Cottonmouth is quite clear: Cottonmouth…
Love in the Laboratory: Gail Carriger’s Romancing the Inventor
Romancing the Inventor Supernatural Society #1 Gail Carriger November 1, 2016 Romancing the Inventor is the first book of the Supernatural Society, an LGBTQ+ focused novella series set in Gail Carriger’s Parasolverse. Note: A review copy was provided at no charge by the author. Imogene Hale is young(ish), more than averagely pretty, and so not interested…
