The Gallery of Unfinished Girls Lauren Karcz HarperTeen July 25, 2017 HarperTeen provided a review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. With a tagline like “Life is a work in progress,” winking up at you from the novel’s bold cover, you immediately know what you are in for. The book opens…
A Look at GOOK with Justin Chon, David So, and Simone Baker
From April 30 to May 4, 1992, Los Angeles was enraged. What finally set it off was a verdict. Four white LAPD officers were found not guilty of the severe beating of Rodney King, a black man, which was caught on tape. The riots that followed would be remembered 25 years later, and Justin Chon’s…
Image 25: Top Cow’s Matt Hawkins’ Full Trajectory
From some guy in a line to COO of a 25-year-old publishing imprint, Matt Hawkins saw the glory days of Image, and stayed around for the aftermath. There are plenty of interviews covering the Founding Fathers of Image’s early days as masters of their new domain. The twentieth anniversary interviews Jason Sacks carried out for…
52 Facts About DC, By The Numbers: August Week Three, 2017
Or However Many I Feel Like, And They May Not All Be Facts Welcome back to By The Numbers, the column where I count things in this week’s new comics from DC! This column will contain spoilers, but I’ll keep them as vague as possible while still amusing myself. In the previous editions of this…
Diary of a Pathfinder Sex Idiot: Sex Trap in the Sexcape Pod
THINGS ARE HAPPENING, FOLKS. Evil genocidal aliens have been killed, alliances have been made, and my crew are finally starting to trust me more. That means, naturally, some of my little sexy chickens are coming home to roost. It has resulted in some … interesting dilemmas, as it would for anyone with 600 years of…
Failsafe: One to Keep in the Vault
I threw out an entire draft before this one. It was about 500 words and it was picking, bit by bit, at my thoughts about these comics, without ever really digging into the meat of them. The meat is this: Failsafe is a bad comic book. It’s a bad enough comic book that it angers…
Book Beat – Poems & Lit to Read in the Wake of Charlottesville
Hi, book lovers! Ashley here! I’m still trying to work my way through Stephen King’s IT. I really like it, but one time I woke up in the middle of the night and lay frozen because I didn’t want to close my closet door or let my legs dangle. I worked a couple of shifts this…
52 Facts About DC, By The Numbers: Aug Week Two 2017
Or However Many I Feel Like, And They May Not All Be Facts Welcome back to By The Numbers, the column where I count things in the first 5 pages of this week’s new comics from DC! This column will contain spoilers, but they’ll all be from the 5-page section of the book available in…
Sing a Song of Spiritus
Spiritus Tim Daniel (words & design), Michael Kennedy (art), Lauren Norby (letterer) The Vault, 2017 “This comic is like a song.” That’s something I say sometimes. I say it to mean I read this with my brain out of focus, like I saw the main strength of it with the part of my brain that processes…
Black Bolt: There Is A Good Dog In This Book
Black Bolt issues 1-4 Saladin Ahmed (writer), Christian Ward (artist & cover art), Virtual Calligraphy’s Clayton Cowles (letterer), Nicholas Russell (design), Jay Bowen (logo design), Charles Beacham (assistant editor), Sarah Brunstad (associate editor), Wil Moss (editor) Marvel Comics July-October 2017 Black Bolt is a king. He is a hero. He is an idiot. First, some…
Get Your Game on Wednesday: Diversity, LARPing with Disney, and Games on the Brain
Happy Wednesday, gaming lovelies! It’s a big week for gaming conventions. For the first time ever, the annual tabletop extravaganza, Gen Con, is sold out. Also this weekend is the gaming track at the LGBTQ-friendly Flame Con; sounds like they’ve got the bases covered. Now, on to the news!
Oni Watch: Oni Press Reminds Us It’s Not All Bad
Times are pretty rough, my friends. So far, most of us are navigating 2017 like it’s a racist uncle trying to burn down your house at Thanksgiving. Throughout all this, it’s nice to know that Oni Press has our backs when it comes to finding a couple of things to smile about in the world….
