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…
The Wedding Issue: Vision and Scarlet Witch, Mantis and Swordsman
Aside from “Who would win in a fight?” nothing gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should be marry. In this mini-feature, Bride-to-Be Rebecca Henely and her Maid of Honor Kayleigh Hearn take a trip down memory lane to the most significant times comic companies took the plunge and…
Previously on Comics: Store Owners on Comic Covers, Crossplaying, and More!
It’s Al here to bring you the good (and bad) word on comics from the last week. I’ve got your news on floppies, webcomics, movies, and more!
How Ill Is Your Repute? A Sinful Review
How Ill is Your Repute? Kitty Curran & Larissa Zageris During this year’s Chicago Zine Fest, I was fortunate to come across Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris’ table, where a zine sporting four intriguing, old-timey-looking women and the title How Ill is Your Repute? caught my eye. Curran and Zageris are part of the creative hive-mind behind Taylor…