If you like your seasonal spookiness kind and romantic, then Fangs by Sarah Andersen will be just right for you. In a series of punchlined pages, it gently tells the story of a vampire and a werewolf dating and finding out just how compatible they are.
Review: Star Trek Discovery’s “People of Earth” Reflects 2020 Concerns
Discovery continues to become more conventionally Star Trek while also pushing boundaries for the franchise. More than ever though, Discovery reflects and comments on contemporary society in “People of Earth.”
REVIEW: Tillie Walden’s Cosmic Slumber Deck Is The Tarot Of My Dreams
Eisner-winner Tillie Walden is the most recent cartoonist to get caught up in the world of indie tarot—her new deck, the Cosmic Slumber Tarot, is the latest addition to Liminal 11’s growing catalogue of tarot and oracle decks. And a wonderful addition it is!
IDW Pubwatch November 2020
Welcome to the IDW Pubwatch. The world is still reeling from the pandemic but here’s something to distract you—a few exciting comics that will occupy your mind, at least for a little while. I’ve also got the latest news coming out of IDW, along with comic book reviews—including Pearl Jam: Art of Do the Evolution—and…
The Twisted Ones: T. Kingfisher, Arthur Machen, and Weird Perspectives
Melissa (Mouse to her friends) is tasked with clearing out the North Carolina cottage that once belonged to her grandmother, a woman known for her cruelty to all those around her – including her husband Cotgrave, Mouse’s “step-grandfather”. Once Mouse temporarily moves into the woodland cottage, her main companions are her dog Bongo and her…
REVIEW: Guardians of the Galaxy #7 Brings Murder and Politics to the Negotiating Table
After the events of Empyre, the landscape of Marvel’s cosmic universe has gotten a big shake-up. The Kree-Skrull war is over, replaced with an impossible alliance, and the powers that be are forced to reassess old treaties and agreements. While an issue built entirely around galactic geo(astro?)politics and debates may not sound like the most…
REVIEW: Two Sharp Takes on X of Swords: Stasis #1
It’s time to d-d-d-d-duel! We’ve officially reached the halfway point of the X-Men event of the year with X of Swords: Stasis #1. Two writers, two artists, two teams of champions, and, now, two reviewers: this is a comic so big we needed both Zoe Tunnell and Kayleigh Hearn to cover it! How fare our…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Magik and Shadows: How Kate Pryde and Ilyana Rasputin Made Me a Better, Gayer, Comics Fan
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Hi. My name is Zoe Tunnell, and I was an awful comics fan. To be clear, I don’t mean I liked awful comics. (I still do! They’re trash, but they’re my…
Last Week’s Episode: Nostalgia Trips
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…