September 21, 2018

After Dark, Comics, Opinion, Roundtables

The Bat-Missile: A Round Robin Discourse [NSFW — sort of]

September 21, 2018

One of the perks of comics journalism is that we often get to see things early, so that we know enough to write about them accurately. That’s not really a surprise in itself, but it does lead to the occasional perk–such as when we discovered that DC Comics, through, Batman: Damned #1, the ...

Bookmarked, Comics Academe, Interviews

The Future is Female! An Interview with Lisa Yaszek

September 21, 2018

Lisa Yaszek, a professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, has been studying the role of women in science fiction history for years. This month, the Library of America will publish her most recent project, The Future is Female!, an edited collection of science fiction stories by ...

Comics

You Yourself Are an Obsolete Computer: Reading Carta Monir

September 21, 2018

“Virtual intimacies were failures before the fact. If you had to get online to get it, it couldn’t be the real thing. But what is the real thing, what is real intimacy?” —Shaka McGlotten Before it spirals out into freaky chatroom horror, Carta Monir’s Secure Connect takes the familiar and ...

Comics, Reviews

Kim Reaper: Vampire Island #1 Review

September 21, 2018

Kim Reaper: Vampire Island #1 Sarah Graley (writer, artist, colorist), Crank! (letterer) Oni Press September 5, 2018 Kim Reaper: Vampire Island follows up last year’s original volume with more of Sarah Graley’s distinctive cuteness and drama. (I interviewed Graley about the first volume here.) ...

September 21, 2018

The Bat-Missile: A Round Robin Discourse [NSFW — sort of]

The Future is Female! An Interview with Lisa Yaszek

You Yourself Are an Obsolete Computer: Reading Carta Monir

Kim Reaper: Vampire Island #1 Review

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