For children of the ’80’s, Jackie Collins probably wrote That Book You Used To Sneak Off Your Parents Shelf to Read. But she was much more than that, and this fantastic CNN Documentary shows the impact she had on both pop culture and popular literature.
Last Week’s Episode: The Start of Hot Mess Summer
This past Sunday was the Summer Solstice. So even though some of us in the South have been melting for over a month already, according to some summer has now officially started. Whether you hate or love the hot girl summer trend, I think we can all agree this summer is a hot mess. Things…
Rereading Bitch Planet in 2021: Basic Bitches & Blackface
I write this on what is the traditional land of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nations. In the first part of this series, I examined the main narrative of Bitch Planet through a critical race theory framework. Critical race theory is a theoretical framework developed by mostly Black American legal scholars and is used…
REVIEW: Reptil #2: Field(work) Trip
Reptil #1 reintroduced readers to Humberto Lopez, the titular teen superhero who can turn into dinosaurs. In the second issue of the four-part miniseries, Humberto and his cousins, Eva and Julian, come face to face not with fossils but with flesh and blood reptiles on Dinosaur World.
5 MORE Yuri Manga Recommendations To Read This Pride Month
What’s better than a listicle with five great F/F manga during pride month? A second list of five MORE yuri comics to check out! Yuri manga in the West is often overlooked and underappreciated, or dismissed as fantasies by and for straight men, ignoring the complexities and depth of this genre. But even outside the…
REVIEW: New Mutants #19: Paper Tigers
The New Mutants are at the Hellfire Gala, a little different than we’ve seen them before — new artists Alex Lins and Matt Milla have some big shoes to fill, and issue #19 really underscores just how much emotional heft Rod Reis’ work has brought to the series.
REVIEW: Fantastic Four Life Stories #1 Takes Us Into the Space Race
Fantastic Four: Life Story #1: The ‘60s is a warm and adventuresome celebration of Marvel’s first family – and is a worthy retelling of the team’s storied history.
REVIEW: The Morning After for Krakoa Arrives in Way of X #3
Way of X #3 made me angrier than any comic book I’ve ever read in my life. I normally like to start a review with something pithy or a summary of the lead-up to the story, but it is simply hard for me to feel anything other than blood boiling rage at this noxious issue….
Who Wore it Better: Supergirl or True Grit?
In my review of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1, I noted some similarities between the comic and Charles Portis’s 1969 novel True Grit, most recently adapted in 2010 by the Coen Brothers. Well, in talking about the particulars of the issue a bit more, my colleague Zach Rabiroff at ComicsXF was able to bring to…
Vault Comics Pubwatch: June 2021
There’s lots of fun stuff going on with Vault Comics this month. Hop over to Gatecrashers to discover the Tales from the Vault-Verse series, which features an in-depth look at some of Vault’s titles through the eyes of their main characters. Find out what’s up with Pax and the kids from Resonant and then there’s…
REVIEW: X-Corp #2 – Now Hiring
Monet St. Croix put X-Corp on the map by significantly moving up the company’s launch date, revealing its exclusive high-tech HQ to the world in the most dramatic way possible. Her unorthodox actions have frustrated Xavier, and Warren Worthington III continues to question the equality and respect that ought to come with a partnership. Still,…