Hey team, it’s the week before the US election and my brain is leaking out my ears, I’m getting into Twitter fights, and I finished season seven of Clone Wars so I can’t even soothe myself with clone shenanigans. I hope you’re all going well, going to vote if you’re American and haven’t already, and that you’re…
REVIEW: Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution: … Is Less Than Revolutionary
Revolutionary Girl Utena is a shojo classic that I only recently read. Because of my recent exposure, news of an addition to the series, After the Revolution, released in 2020 in English excited me. Overall, I see threads in the series that a younger me would have loved. Unfortunately, neither the original Utena series nor…
DC PUBWATCH – October 2020 Edition
This is an interesting month for DC news and solicits because most of DC’s January books are going to be part of Future State. This is a two-month line-wide detour into possible futures of the DC universe. The important things to note are the breaks from the standard 20-page monthly book. Many of the books…
Remembering Charlee Jacob: Still
Still, published in 2007, is perhaps Charlee Jacob’s most accessible novel. This is not to say that it is more conventional than her other books: the dreamlike surrealism, loose narrative structure and graphic portrayals of depravity that characterise much of her oeuvre are all present and correct. Rather, Still is comparatively accessible because of its…
REVIEW: Giga #1 is a Gorgeous, Simmering Pot of Tension
Giga #1 steams with the tension of a world marred by violence and war. The wars have been fought for so long, people can’t remember exactly how they started and can’t imagine what it’d be like to have them stop. I wasn’t sure a mech-style Gundam-esque comic was going to my thing but it is…
REVIEW: Moriarty the Patriot is SO MUCH
Blond pretty boy Moriarty haunts my nightmares. Moriarty the Patriot is a manga series written by Ryōsuke Takeuchi and illustrated by Hikaru Miyoshi as a prequel to the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from the perspective of Sherlock Holmes’s nemesis Professor Moriarty. Though there are twelve volumes published in Japan, the first…
REVIEW: Transformers/Back to the Future #1 Assembles And Rolls Out With Some Strange Bedfellows
Transformers/Back to the Future#1 is a festival of great art, fun character work and good writing. It manages to balance light and dark with surprising deftness.
Review: Star Trek Discovery’s “Far From Home,” AKA Gays in Space
Last week’s episode caught viewers up on Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and introduced new character Booker (David Ajala), so naturally this week caught us up on the rest of the crew and the ship Discovery itself.
REVIEW: Wild West: #1 Calamity Jane Rolls Into Town
Wild West Vol. 1: Calamity Jane opens into a violent and lawless world set in the Old West, where we follow well-known historical figures Martha Cannary and James Hickock, better known as American folk heroes under the names Calamity Jane and Wild Bill respectively. Wild West offers a retelling of their story, how they met,…
Vampires on the Margins: Women’s Perspectives
Modern vampire fiction has been shaped in large part by female authors: Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris, Nancy Collins, Laurell K. Hamilton, Stephenie Meyer and others each played a part in establishing vampire literature as the thriving commercial genre that it is today. In terms of both authorship and readership, it is safe to say that…
Previously on Comics: Time is a Flat Circle
Hello and welcome to another edition of Previously on Comics! I am your host, Kate, and this week is one of those weeks where it seems like not much is happening in the world of comics, but also a lot is happening. I took September off, but in August I wrote about Bloodbath Monday at…
Discover Hope in The Sacrifice of Darkness
If 2020 teaches us anything, it is to find hope in darkness. That hope comes in many forms, even from the past. Roxane Gay’s 2013 short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” is a story of a world plunged into literal perpetual darkness and one family’s hopes to overcome it. Now a graphic novel…
