Want to read more sci-fi? What does it mean to “read diversely” and do you need to do more of it? Are you notorious for not finishing your to-read pile? It’s a new year which means a new year because that’s how it works, right? Some of the WWAC contributors have shared their reading resolutions…
We Conceive: Rachel Masilamani’s NON PARTUM
“We Conceive” is the last update in Rachel Masilamani’s NON PARTUM series, published by Mutha Magazine in June of 2015. While I’d been writing about the series, one by one, as it came out, I fell off by the time this one came out, because certain elements of Masilimani’s comic about health, trauma, and trying to…
Thursday Book Beat: Boyden Controversy, Remembering Carrie Fisher and Twitter Troll Gets Book Deal
Happy New Years book lovers! Hope you all had a lovely holiday, I spent mine eating and sleeping and doing close to nothing — it was wonderful. New year, new me right? My two resolutions are to read more and dedicate time to reading and to save money. Not sure how those will go hand…
Frontier #14: Rebecca Sugar
Frontier #14: Rebecca Sugar Rebecca Sugar Youth In Decline December 2016 The cover of Frontier #14 is not misleading. This is, in part, a comic about progress, corrections, revisiting, and reworking past ideas. The layers of pencil, corrective tape, and marker are a motif, the vehicle through which Sugar makes her point. After the front…
Budget Zombie Cosplay Make-up
When I think of SFX makeup, generally my first thought is a wide array of expensive products and various techniques that come together to create a stunning visual effect. Then I remember that I’m a student on a budget with no time for professional classes. However, as I have shown in previous articles, there is…
The Cult-erion Collection: The 10 Weirdest Films You Can Watch on Filmstruck
Launched in November, Filmstruck is a new US streaming service featuring classic and foreign films. The product of a partnership between Turner Classic Movies and The Criterion Channel, Filmstruck is an oasis in the desert for cinephiles and thinkpiece writers bemoaning the absence of Casablanca and Citizen Kane on Netflix. (Though Filmstruck doesn’t have them…
Stealing Snow: Are You a Good Trope or a Bad Trope?
Stealing Snow Danielle Paige Bloomsbury Publishing September 2016 Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This review may also contain spoilers.
Comics and YA: How Shelving Creates Access
I think that I’ve got a pretty great job. On any given day I could be helping a teen find a read-a-like for her favorite fantasy series, telling another teen that no they can’t eat buffalo wings at the public computers, doing a Harry Potter-inspired craft program, or reminding someone that not everything you read…
Witchers, Soldiers, a Barrel-Smashing Troll: A First Look at Gwent
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game Publisher: CD Projekt Platform: PC, XBox One Release Date: Currently in Closed Beta Note: This review is of the beta version of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game. I signed up for the closed beta of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, sometime in July and didn’t give it much thought after…
Previously on Comics: Anticipated Adaptations and Fighting Stigmas
Hi readers! Welcome to the first Previously On Comics of 2017! I hope you had a lovely and restful holiday season. Alas, comics news never rests so let’s get started. Are you an Attack on Titan fan who’s been dying for the second season of the anime? I completely understand. Three years is a long…
Review: Hawkeye #1 Hits the Bullseye
Hawkeye #1 Kelly Thompson (s), Leonardo Romero (p), Jordie Bellaire (c), VC’s Joe Sabino (l) Marvel Comics December 14, 2016
