Last month, Claire Napier discussed the taboo topic of … female body hair! Lately, some ladies are doing such scandalous things as growing out their armpit hair and even dying it bright colors. This month, we are all jumping in on the body hair discussion in the vein of our On Make-up and Femininity: WWAC Talks…
Interview with Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics
Drawing games are awesome. They’re one of the few games I can get most of my friends and family who aren’t into board games to play with me. They are all also big fans of Taboo, and I’m a big fan of geekery. Now there’s a tabletop game that will combine all of the interests and…
Screen Daze: Webcomics to Binge On
Webcomics are a wonderland. There is so much variation and possibility out there. So much to read! So much to keep up with! it can be intimidating. Luckily, we’ve got your back.
What We’re Playing: April
Hello, Spring! We’re glad you’re here. Please, join us for a game or two. Games Editor Al Rosenberg may not be able to remove herself from Hearthstone on her cell phone long enough to do much of anything, but other folks are having exciting gaming adventures. Readers, what are you playing this month?
Games for the Visually Impaired: The Importance of Play
I cried a little this morning; they were happy tears. I was reading Kill Screen’s recent article about Smash-A-Ball, a handheld game for visually impaired children.
April Games Roundtable: All On the Table
Welcome, welcome to April’s Roundtable. Sit your bones down and prepare to enjoy a long conversation all about those games played atop the table. There’s a lot of good advice in this month’s talk, as well as some game mod suggestions, and game recommendations.
Quick Change: Bee’s Got Some Ice For Deckard’s Cosplay
It is eight o’clock in the morning and your fellow geek calls you up and announces a last-minute con she has decided to attend. Obviously, you have to go with her, but what to wear? It is now time to perform your own superhuman feat and put together an acceptable geek outfit from easily found…
Webcomic Profile: Emily of The Blue Valkyrie
I’m always on the lookout for a great webcomic to add to my watchlist, so I was super excited when someone told me about The Blue Valkyrie. So far, issue one and the first page of issue two have been released, but it’s scheduled to post new pages biweekly. The story so far is about Chloe,…
Newspaper Comics: How We Met Them and Where We’d Like to See Them Go
For many of us Millennials and older, newspaper comics were our first experience with sequential art. But that may be changing. While school and alternative newspaper comics used to be a way for cartoonists to break into making comics professionally or to having a syndicated strip, these days, budding creators are more likely to start out on…
Drink Your Comics: Convergence!
So everyone is talking about DC’s New 49, I mean…er, Convergence, these past few months as DC attempts to diversify their lines. In celebration of what I am sure is a well-intentioned attempt to stop fridging female characters and glossing over characters who should be canonically bisexual and preventing lesbian characters from marrying their partners,…
The MultiWWsity: Definitely Not a Lot of Supermans
The Multiversity. Grant Morrison and his prize dolls hop from one DC universe to another, generating many strange adventures and also comic books. Team WWAC makes such a journey and finds a super-person in every universe. We’re reinventing the wheel, off-brand. You’re safe for now, Morrison.
Cool Games of April: Staff Picks
State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition Developer: Undead Labs Publisher: Microsoft Studios Xbox One April 28, 2015 I love zombies. I know the market has been a bit flooded recently with zombie…stuff, but State of Decay did it right. You play a whole team of people, all of whom live together in a safe…