I am sick of articles and think pieces that tell us zines are back. The more I visit zine festivals, talk to zinesters, buy zines, and check out zine libraries, the more I realize that zines never left. Zines, and the people who make them, have grown, found new avenues to reach people, and continued…
Monthly Marvel Muster: New Books, Same Old Stories
Hello, and welcome to the July issue of the Monthly Marvel Muster, I’m here with updates on Marvel’s May and June comics, as well as some of the fresh news from SDCC.
House of X: A Question of the Damage Done
I’m trying to think about how to tackle this. House of X is X-Men, right? It’s…different. There’s that idea that after a definitive run on a book, usually by that book’s creators, everything else is just well-financed fan fiction. I have…some issues with that concept, but it’s hard to deny the idea that a lot…
The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 7: Dion Fortune’s Demon Lover
Born Violet Mary Firth in 1890, the British writer Dion Fortune is one of the most influential figures in Western occultism. She penned a sizeable number of books – both fiction and non-fiction – prior to her death in 1946, including a sequence of occult novels. The first of these, a 1927 book entitled The…