The Wild Storm #1 Warren Ellis (Writer), Jon Davis-Hunt (Art), Ivan Plascencia (Colorist) WildStorm (a DC Comics imprint) February 15th, 2017 Disclaimer: This article was written based off a review copy provided by DC Comics. Reading Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt’s The Wild Storm #1 is like taking the first bite of a strategically cooked gourmet…
Get Your Game on Wednesday: Swords, Stereotypes and Bowling for Nazis
Hello, gaming lovelies! Happy Wednesday! Despite being snowed in for most of last week, I regret to report that I didn’t play many games. I did check out the Cubist Podcast, a weekly show covering board games. Which gaming podcasts/channels do you love?
Oscars Welcomes Abusers Gibson and Affleck
Content Warning: This article discusses sexual assault, racism and antisemitism. In July 2010, two women filed a $2m lawsuit against actor Casey Affleck, alleging repeated instances of sexual harassment from Affleck as they worked together on his directorial debut. The allegations included accusations of verbal abuse and physical intimidation, including one instance where a plaintiff…
Reading: Challenge Yourself
This is my bookshelf. It is filled with many books. Many books that I have not yet read. My ebook and audiobook shelves are similarly filled with promises of “I’ll read you next.” The reality is, like many a bibliophile, my to-read list is legion. I’m currently sitting at 745, and that’s after a recent culling. This is…
Wildcats, Superheroes and the True Female Power Fantasy
When Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster invented Superman in 1938, they created a new kind of power fantasy. Yes, Superman stood for the oppressed and downtrodden, but what excited readers most was his ability to do what normal people could not. His super strength and endurance, his ability to leap from place to place (his…
The Wedding Issue: Northstar and Kyle
Aside from “Who would win in a fight?” nothing gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should 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 got…
Previously On Comics: Celebrating Lives and Remembering History
Hello readers! Hope you had a good weekend. I don’t know what the weather’s been like where you live, but I’ve been facing a veritable roller coaster. Cold, warm, snow, warm, windy. I barely have time to get used to a weather change before it becomes something else. Thanks, global warming, thanks. But enough about…
Bleating Heart Press: WWAC Has Published its First Zine!
Bleating Heart Press’ Inaugural Double Issue Now Available! We’re proud to announce the release of Secrets of the Goat People #1: Voice, the first publication from our new imprint, Bleating Heart Press. In this inaugural double issue, you’ll find 40+ pages of original comics, illustrations, and prose from 17 international creators. Learn about the power of silence,…
11 Romance Authors of Color You Should Be Reading
For many non-romance readers, and honestly, probably a large portion of romance readers, romance is a monolithic tower of white women writing about courtship and society in the time of Jane Austen. And while Regency Romance is a pretty big part of the romance machine, and some of it is pretty fantastic, it’s not the…
Women Of Auteur Film: Isabelle Adjani
What is an Auteur? Well, the technical definition is a simply a filmmaker who has a singular, recognisable vision, though you can guarantee they’ll also be a man as no women have been deemed important or visionary enough to become members of this elite club. As we all know, the singular vision of men is…
Comic Looks: Karoline
I have two pairs of leggings packed with sound words, panel fragments, screen tone bits, and some body parts/heads in this typical US-Superhero style. They’re from a European clothing store chain called “New Yorker.” In fact, it’s the same model in monochrome and in bright colors, the “manga version” and the “comic version,” kind of….
Hot Dads of Gaming: Ganon(dorf)
I’ve always liked big guys. Despite being a short lady (or perhaps because of it), some part of me is intrinsically drawn to tall, boorish, weirdly animal-like men. I’ve got a mental vault of inappropriate fantasies about characters like Killer Croc, Obadiah Horn, and zombie Gregor Clegane—fantasies that are probably rooted in my childhood love…
