Taxis are an ubiquitous part of most countries, but few of us consider them beyond serving an immediate need–getting from one place to another. In Taxi Stories, director Doris Yeung focuses the camera on that journey, setting her film and her characters in various forms of taxis over three different countries. From Hong Kong to Jakarta to…
The Captain America We Need
A radical hate movement has infiltrated the American government. A cartoon despot pulls tactics from his skimming of Mein Kampf while a hostile foreign power pulls his strings. Just as we’ve started to make progress toward lasting change and brought long-overdue conversations on transphobia, racism, and systemic oppression to the public sphere, we find ourselves…
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action Review
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a visual novel of a different breed. Set in the year 207X in a place called Glitch City, this title follows a month in the life of Jill, who works at a simple out of the way bar named VA-11 Hall-A, or Valhalla for short. The world around Jill…
Previously on Comics: Hot Superman & Goodbye Leo Baxendale
The loss of Beano artist and children’ comic pioneer Leo Baxendale was felt by grown-up brit-comic kids across the world. Creator of, among others, Minnie the Minx (a bad girl, not a Bad Girl), Baxendale was mourned in a style he’d surely appreciate with more than one tweet displaying a huge mound of mash studded with…
C2E2 Made Diversity Programming Hard to Enjoy
It’s been several years since I went to a convention as big as C2E2, and I have to admit: I was a bit nervous. Massive crowds are not my favorite thing, and I remember walking and walking and being in lines and walking more from the anime conventions I attended in high school. (I bet…
Mary Kills People: Lifetime’s New Show Plays It Safe And Falls Short
When I first decided to review Mary Kills People, I was under the impression that it was just a show about a female serial killer starring Hannibal‘s Caroline Dhavernas, and I was very, very much about it. I have a soft spot for trashy horror and intricate narratives that delve into what drives women to…
Chiodo Comics’ Joey Ryan Dickstarter Asks You For a Chance
Remember that GIF you saw once of a wrestler destroying his opponent simply with the power of his own penis? This GIF: Well, that wrestler’s starring in his own comic… as the Chiodo Comics’ funding Kickstarter makes it into the black. At time of writing there are no stretch goals announced, but with the campaign closing in the…
Reading and Rereading The Handmaid’s Tale
Many of us have been heavily anticipating Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, starring Elisabeth Moss in what could be her next great television role since she played the ambitious Peggy Olsen on Mad Men. Several of us at WWAC (and our friends) took to rereading (or in some cases reading for…
Nirvana in Fire is the Revenge Drama You Need in Your Life
The popularity of revenge stories can be seen in the success of action-thrillers like John Wick and Kill Bill. There is a vicious satisfaction in watching a hero violently complete their journey to retribution. But in the Chinese historical drama Nirvana in Fire (Langya Bang), the main character Mei Changsu (played by Hu Ge) pursues…
Spill Night is a Promising New Horror Comic
Spill Night Scott Westerfeld (writer) and Alex Puvilland (illustrator) First Second May 6th, 2017 Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) comics are such silly things. Sure, it’s fun to see your local comic shop overflowing with people, all lined up to get free stuff from publishers that normally ask at least four bucks for a monthly…
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink Review
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink Brenden Fletcher, Kelly Thompson, Tini Howard (Writers), Daniele Di Nicuolo (Artist), Sarah Stern (Colors), Ed Dukeshire (Letters) BOOM Studios April 19, 2017 With nostalgia being a big hit lately and a brand new feature length movie gaining lots of attention, the Power Rangers franchise is becoming a household name once…
Book Beat: Shadowshaper Gets Optioned and I Meet Billy Boyd
Hello all! Hope you all had a good World Book Day on Sunday! This past week’s book news seems to be “books and media.” Obviously “media” can mean movie and TV adaptations of books but it also includes how authors express their opinions on social media. What does that all mean? You’ll just have to…
