Maybe I’m dying.
Reading Diaries: Buried Under Books
Christa: This month I’ve had a pretty good streak. I burned through the first three volumes of the iZombie comic, but I am holding out on the last volume because I’m not quite ready to say goodbye just yet. I also finally read Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins. I can’t believe I’ve been…
Awesome Webcomics of April: Staff Picks
Hotblood Toril Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. NSFW The Wild West with centaurs. Need I say more? Ok, I will. James Rook, a Civil War veteran with limited options, and Asa Langley, a steel icon, get into wild shenanigans in the year of 1871. There’s violence, sex, profanity, revised American history,…
Quick Change Cosplay: Jem Jamming Around
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…
March Roundtable: Kids and Games
Welcome to the next installment of the Game Section’s monthly roundtable! Growing up is weird. Gaming can be strange. The games children play? Often truly bizarre. This month we talked about games we played as children. Apparently we all know our way around a solo board game or two. What did you all play, readers?…
Compulsive Reading: Some Notes On How We Read Mental Health
Megan Purdy asks the questions in this round table discussion responding to several comics tackling mental illness, and its resultant behaviours. Sara Lautman’s comic Some Notes on Compulsive Hair Pulling is beautiful and affecting. The comic is about Lautman’s struggle with trichotillomania: how she got her diagnosis; how she deals with it; how she relates,…
Rock Band 4: WWAC’s Playlist
Banking on the idea that the owners of the new generation of consoles will want to buy all of the gaming peripherals, or that they’ve held on to their old instruments, Harmonix has announced Rock Band 4. Plus, they now have the budget for a “top tier” soundtrack. We have great ideas for what should be…
EXCLUSIVE LOOK: Behind the Scenes of the Live Action Secret of NIMH movie
When I heard the news that The Secret of NIMH was being remade as a live-action/CGI film, I was OVERJOYED. What could be better, and contribute to the ongoing destruction of everything I held dear as a child, than real/CGI rodents plotting complex science-y plots in real/CGI environments? Surely not the original movie with its beautiful art!…
Hotline, Freddys and the Blind Forest: Cool Games of March! [GIFs]
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Dennaton Games Devolver Digital PS4, PSVita, Windows, Mac, Linux: March 10, 2015 Hotline Miami the original was an indie darling, a top-down murder simulator with tight controls and a difficulty curve that fit precisely into the deranged zeitgeist of video gaming circa 2012. Its amazing retro-80s soundtrack and simple premise…
Reading Diaries: Let’s Talk Reading Slumps
Christa: Last month I talked about how I hadn’t had much time for reading. This month I’ve had a bit more time but now the problem is motivation. There are plenty of books I want to read, but I never really feel like reading. So most of the books beside my bed are half finished,…
Movies that Shaped Me: Now, Voyager
Now, Voyager Directed by Irving Rapper Produced by Hal B. Wallis Screenplay by Casey Robinson Starring: Bette Davis Based on Now, Voyager Warner Bros. October 31, 1942 Sometimes it is clear that I was raised by my grandparents. My taste in movies is pretty indicative of this. From my grandfather I have gained a deep…
Awesome Game Award Winners!
Best Game Artist: Ken Wong of Monument Valley Wong is an Australian artist and designer. He has done a huge variety of art, and was the art director for Alice: Madness Returns. His work on Monument Valley is exquisite. The designs follow beautiful color schemes and the character is simple and elegant.