Frontier #13: Fatherson Richie Pope Youth In Decline September 25, 2016 I got to see Richie Pope on The Black Comics/Race and Comics panel at the 2016 Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF). It was the first time I heard of Pope and got to see his art projected on the hotel conference room screen. I left…
Civil War II: Many Losers but Princess Sparklefists Wins
Civil War II had a lot of promise in its premise: that there’s another issue important enough to the superhero community that they would take sides and fight over it. In this case, it’s the Terrigen cloud released by the Inhumans on Earth, which turned one regular kid into an Inhuman with a power that…
Get Your Game On Wednesday: Gaming Quickly
This upcoming year of games has me pretty excited, and contemplating saving up for a PS4. I’ve been making my way through all the Mass Effect games in anticipation for Andromeda, but there’s more news than just WWAC’s Bioware love.
Avoid This Yellow Brick Road: Emerald City is a Dud
Emerald City, episodes 1 & 2 Tarsem Singh (Director) Matt Arnold, Josh Friedman, David Schulner, Shaun Cassidy, Naomi Iizuka, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Tracy Bellomo, Josh Carlback (Writers) Adria Arjona, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ana Ularu, Gerran Howell, Jordan Loughran, Joely Richardson, Vincent D’Onofrio (cast) NBC Emerald City might be peak genre pastiche gritty reboot for me. When I first…
On Immigration and Motherhood: A Book Review of Lucky Boy
Lucky Boy Shanthi Sekaran G.P. Putnam’s Sons January 10, 2017 Lucky Boy is a lush and poignant tale about two different mothers who are in love with the same baby boy, Ignacio. Solimar Castro-Valdez, a young undocumented Mexican immigrant working as a maid/nanny in Berkeley, California, is the biological mother of Ignacio. Kavya Reddy is…
How to Visualise Identity? Looking for Nonbinary
Nonbinary. It’s a word that’s being thrown around a lot at the moment. The acknowledgement that there are, and always have been, more than two genders is incredibly important. However, we still aren’t seeing a huge amount of nonbinary representation in mainstream media, and when we do it’s a little vague – take Steven Universe,…
Avengers Academy: Queer Rep Done Well in Capes
Avengers Academy is a free-to-play mobile game, though it’s more of a waiting-for-timers game in my experience. Unlike a lot of my friends on here I don’t like Avengers Academy, well, as a game. The business model is just too awful, and I can’t find myself invested in real time-based gameplay loops that cause me…
Susan Wokoma Is the Best Part of Netflix’s Crazyhead
Crazyhead is a new British show that was released in October before making its way to Netflix in December. Raquel and Amy are in their early twenties and share two important things in common: 1) they can see humans who are possessed by demons and 2) they’ve been told they’re crazy because of it. The show begins with…
Previously on Comics: Webcomic to Netflix, March to Awards
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s pretty darn cold. I’ve been keeping out of the Chicago winter with some warm comics reading, and I encourage you to do the same! Here’s what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s just comics:
Queer Girl Does Not Meet World at Disney
There was a resounding sigh of disappointment on Wednesday as Disney confirmed what many fans had been dreading–Girl Meets World has been cancelled. After three seasons, the sequel to the ’90s classic Boy Meets World is over. The show began in 2014, and quickly gained a large following, not least because of the strong friendship between…
Hidden Figures Has a Winning Formula
Hidden Figures Directed by Theodore Melfi Screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, and Kevin Costner Twentieth Century Fox December 25, 2016 As we march inexorably toward the January 20th inauguration of a president that many feel will be detrimental to the very fabric of what it means to…
Reading Art Speigelman’s Maus In 2017: A Roundtable
Maus by Art Spiegelman is one of those comics that’s brought up again and again, and not just by people within comics communities. August of 2016 was the 30th anniversary of the Pantheon collected edition of volume one, and 2017 will mark 25 years since it won the Pulitzer Prize. This Washington Post retrospective on…