Hey there, Gamers! It’s Al, phone-gaming and writing to you through a fog of deadlines and head cold. Time has lost all meaning for me, so let’s look at some news! Including the Superbowl?
Is Reggie and Me Actually Good?
Reggie and Me #1 & 2 Tom De Falco (script), Sandy Jerrel (pencils), Kelly Fitzpatrick, (colours), Jack Morelli (letters) Archie Comics Two issues into the new Reggie and Me comic by Tom De Falco and Sandy Jerrel and I’m not mad? What’s surprising about this is that it has a few things in common with Archie’s reboot…
A Lifetime on the Beach with The Red Turtle
The Red Turtle Michaël Dudok de Wit (director) Michaël Dudok de Wit & Pascale Ferran (writers) Studio Ghibli and Wild Bunch June 29, 2017 France, September 17, 2016 Japan The world has been loud and tumultuous lately–incoming news is coming in so fast it’s hard to keep up and what can be read feels overwhelming….
Five Asian Dramas Which Make Me Feel Better About Living Life, Honestly
So, you’re online, and you feel bad about the world. What can help? And for cheap-to-free? Asian Dramas. They’re long, they’re lengthy, and they’re full, at their best, of the spectrum of human emotion. And when you feel bad, that’s what you need, something to take you by the nose and lead you through the…
Colour by Disney Is Very Expensive and Not Great
Colour by Disney Disney Publishing Worldwide Enterprises Janruary 24, 2017 Free to download, in-app purchases While there are hundreds of colouring apps–some of them incredibly popular and lucrative–adult colouring is still mostly about books. Colouring for kids is just another fun activity, but colouring for adults is serious business. It’s not a hobby, it’s art…
Feminism in South Asia: A Review of Drawing the Line
Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back Various Contributors Edited by Priya Kuriyan, Larissa Bertonasco, and Ludmilla Bartscht Ad Astra Comix Zubaan Publishers October 2015 Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back debuted in 2015 as the first full length graphic novel by Toronto-based indie comics publisher Ad Astra, working in conjunction with the feminist…
Call for Essays: Cold War in March
In March, WWAC is taking an in-depth look at how the Cold War shaped culture. We are looking for critical essays on books, movies, tv shows, comics and games made during or about that period after the end of WWII until the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are particularly interested in international works and…
Die Like a Brogue
Every time I play Brian Walker’s roguelike PC video game Brogue, I die. Every. Time. I have never won. I never really have the time or mental space to devote to the game. Between the permadeath and increasing difficulty, I’m dead pretty quick. Permadeath sounds like a metal band, but it’s an important element to…
Jane Mai Is an American Hero
Memoirists, unsurprisingly, often retell moments of their lives to extract a lesson from their experiences. It is natural to use the act of writing or talking about yourself to generate meaning, but lately I’ve been wondering if building narratives out of one’s own incomplete life can be dangerous. We all have, at one time or…
Previously On Comics: Comics You Might Have Missed
Hello again! Kate here for this week’s Previously On Comics. It’s been A Week, to say the least, and as I’m getting on a plane in 36 hours, I’m going to keep this short and sweet and mostly focused on suggestions of things to read that you might have missed. Before we start, I have…
Powerless: Less about the Powerless, More About Those in Power
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…
