[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7exoXGUbIA&w=420&h=315] Yes! It’s Bonfire Night. Or “Guy Fawkes Day”. When we British, traditionally, make hideous effigies of a man long-dead. Then we burn them cruelly, atop large bonfires on local Primary School fields, while we stand around eating toffee apples and burning our mouths on horrible soup. There are fireworks. Ooh, aah! We don’t think…
Top 10: Hair. Ladies. Ladies’ Hair (Marvel)
Soon I will need to trim my hair, and so bouffants are on my mind. I don’t know about you, but eighty-five percent of my hairspiration comes from comics & comics’ surrounding suburbs. Right now I’m rocking a grown-out Major Kusanagi, f’rex. Two (three?) years ago I did the Rogue Fringe thing. Anyway there are a…
Tutorial: Hilarious Halloween Marvel Throwback Shirts
Way back when, I found the Bronze Age of Blogs: a blog about bronze age comics. It’s great. You can check it out in your own time. One of my favourite posts there, that I’ve come back to repeatedly, is this. An image-heavy post about Marvel’s old, ridiculous, perfect bubblegum stickers. I fell hard for them…
What’s Hot? October!
What’s Hot? Our monthly feature telling you what we’re into, outside of what you usually see us talking up. Rounded personalities? Yeah, we have’em. But it’s October! All of our contributors are on the autumn-winter spectrum! Nothing is hot! …Except soup, hot chocolate, and baked potatoes. We’re having a bit of a foodfest in this…
Meeting Captain Manchester: an interview
Real life superheroes get a lot of press. It doesn’t matter how small your town is, how street-level your gesture–someone is going to write a feature on you. You will be interviewed. There will be local newspaper headlines that sound like Vice swagger: “Our evening on patrol with Salford super-hero, Knight Warrior,” from the Manchester…
Review: The Cute Girl Network
The Cute Girl Network First Second Books MK Reed and G. Means, Joe Flood The Cute Girl Network is not a title that clearly flags a target market. It could be for pre-teen girls. It could be for teen boys, maybe? It could be for teenage girls for sure, or less than respectful young adult…
Fall Reading
Fall is a good time for books that will destroy your everything. It’s not winter, when disaffection can stretch on into misery. Fall? There are pumpkins to carve, fallen leaves to jump into, and forget seasonal affective disorder–there’s still enough sun to keep you from the black pit of despair we call deep winter. I read a…
Which Comic Are You Wearing?
Cosplay is great, but sometimes it’s intimidating. Where will I wear it? How will I make it? Can I afford it, for just one con/just for one Halloween? Will the character suit me? Will people be nasty jerks about my choices? And so on! It’s hard to be a fan. There are ways to cut…
Top 10: WTF, Spider-Manga
Spider-Man! He’s been around the world a couple of times. Remember this? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi7qJ4MLCaw&w=420&h=315] That’s not what we’re here to talk about. We’re here for the Spider-Man manga, released eight years previously and with a wildly different subject matter. This Spider-Man was Komori Yuu (neither Japanese Spider-Man was Peter Parker, nor even alliterative — the toku version…
What’s Hot? September 2013
What’s hot? Well listen– You might have picked up the hints, reader, but let me confirm – we, your contributing team, are women! Women writing about comics. We share this shocking fact in the hope that publicly being Real Nerd Girls might help you/us/everybody forget anybody was ever surprised that people could like things that…
WWACRadio podcast: garage band comics with Suzy X!
WWACRadio podcast! Host Claire talks to Rookie mag cartoonist SUZY X about the Best Song Ever.
All Star Lois Lane: Superman, icons, personhood and love
A look at All Star Superman, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Clark’s current date calendar