Powerless Developed by Ben Queen, Michael Patrick Jann, Patrick Schumacker (producers) Vanessa Hudgens, Danny Pudi, Christina Kirk, Ron Funches, Alan Tudyk (cast) NBC February 2, 2017 You have no idea how excited I was for NBC’s Powerless, a sitcom featuring Vanessa Hudgens and Danny Pudi (a biracial Filipina and a South Asian actor! In lead roles! As best…
Review: Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook
Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook Ziggy Marley & Family Akashic Books October 2016 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: cookbooks are like porn for me with their glossy pictures of beautifully arranged food that never quite turns out looking so pretty. You just have to accept from the get-go that you may…
Review: Fences Is Heartbreaking and Hopeful
Fences Denzel Washington (dir), August Wilson (wri) Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, and Saniyya Sidney (cast) Paramount Pictures December 25, 2016 August Wilson’s Fences adaptation has been a long time coming.
Pondering Pull Lists, Part One: Why? What? Really?
We couldn't have said it any better. pic.twitter.com/faPdRAuRcT — Joey Von (@JoeyVonKinsley) January 11, 2017 Pull lists. What a notion! A non-binding agreement with a supplier of goods, a supplier of goods whose order from their supplier of goods–when it’s Diamond, which is usually–is binding. A simple little option, the ability to say, “Hey man, hey…
Villains and Masterminds: The Third Doctor #4
The Third Doctor #4 Paul Cornell (Writer), Christopher Jones (Artist), Hi-Fi (Colors) Titan Comics January 11th, 2016 It’s hard to imagine anything topping The Third Doctor #3’s explosive reveal that the Second Doctor was really Ramón Salamander in disguise. And yet, things are only getting more interesting as we hurtle into issue #4. Fragile alliances are built, characters’…
Book Beat: Muslim Ban Lit & Canada Reads 2017
Hi book lovers! This week was hard in a multitude of ways, the Muslim Ban, the complete ignorance of the DAPL protests, and what they were for, added fuel to my fiery hate of Cheeto POTUS. So when I went to grab a book this weekend, I found myself turning to non-fiction, a genre I…
Asian and American: A Review of Permanent Alien
Permanent Alien: An Asian American Comics Anthology Hanna Cha Mariel Rodriguez Jean Wei Michelle Zhuang Digital copies out now; hard copies out February 2017 What does it mean to be Asian American? What are the ways in which we connect to our culture and to our ancestors? How, when, and why do we disconnect? And…
Review: Vanessa Davis’ Spaniel Rage
Spaniel Rage Vanessa Davis Drawn & Quarterly February 2017 Disclaimer: Spaniel Rage was reviewed using a copy provided by Drawn & Quarterly. Vanessa Davis’ Spaniel Rage mostly chronicles her one-drawing-a-day diary comics from 2003 to 2004. Now over 10 years old, these drawings are practically historical, living in a very different time where few people had…
