By now the news has already spread among the fandom: five-season success and award-winning animated series Steven Universe has a movie coming up. Not only are we getting a feature-length Steven adventure with the Crystal Gems, Cartoon Network and Rebecca Sugar know their audience. The movie is going to be a musical, the second in…
Archie So Far: Who’s What, What’s Where
Archie #28 Mark Waid, Ian Flynn (writers), Audrey Mok (art), Kelly Fitzpatrick (colors), Jacck Morelli (letters) Archie Comics February 14, 2018 I have been following this new run of Archie since issue #1. While I don’t quite have the problems that many of my WWAC sistren have with Mark Waid’s writing, the Betty-drag-race-wheelchair arc nearly…
Don’t Sleep On Justice League Action
Justice League Action Sam Register, Jay Bastian, Tramm Wigzell and Tatiana Krokar (producers), Bruce A. King (editor) Kevin Conroy, Rachel Kimsey, Jason J. Lewis (cast) Adapted from Justice League by Gardner Fox November 26, 2016 (UK), December 16, 2016 (US) Justice League Action is the latest entry from the DC Animation team. It is not…
DuckTales Is Back! Woo-Oo!
DuckTales Developed by Matt Youngberg and Francisco Angones David Tennant, Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz, Bobby Moynihan, Kate Micucci, Beck Bennett, Toks Olagundoye, Tony Anselmo (cast) Adapted from Uncle Scrooge by Carl Barks and DuckTales (1987) by Jymn Magon August 12, 2017 (US) Disney XD premiered the 2017 re-imagining of Disney Afternoon favorite DuckTales on midnight…
Reel Geek Girl On Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man: Homecoming Jon Watts (dir), Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Zendaya, and Jon Favreau, with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. July 2017 PG-13 Spider-Man: Homecoming marks the first film co-created by Sony and Marvel together to bring the character (who has thus far appeared in his own unconnected separate universe in five other films) to…
Steven Universe: Art & Origins …and Racism
Over the weekend of July 15-16, Twitter came alive with more concerns about the Steven Universe team’s racial sensitivity/awareness. The show has already encountered critique from the viewership and blogosphere over previous instances in the show’s history where racial issues were not handled as well as they could have been: The fact that the diverse…
Cartoon Academy: Tangled The Series
Tangled The Series is Disney’s latest Princess series spinoff from a successful film. The art is lovely and the opening hints at the overarching secret of how the Princess’ hair came back. There’s an almost papercraft quality to the art, and the theme song sounds like it came right out of the film. For those unfamiliar,…
WarGames: The Only Winning Move Is Still Not to Play
WarGames is a late 20th century film that puts the lie to adults scoffing that teens care about nothing other than food, fooling around, and enjoying the latest pop culture fads. Surprise, surprise: teens don’t want to die in a nuclear holocaust either. Teens are as capable of empathy, love, regret, guilt and fear as any adult —…
Cover Girl: Quantum Teens Are Go!
This month the Cover Girl team discusses Eryk Donovan’s cover to Quantum Teens Are Go #1. Written by Mags Visaggio with pencils by Eryk Donovan and colouring by Claudia Aguirre, it dropped on February 22, 2017.
Get Out (Of Your Comfort Zone)
Get Out Jordan Peele (director/writer), Toby Oliver (cinematography) Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Lil Rel Howery, Keith Stanfield (cast) January 23, 2017 (Sundance), February 24, 2017 (United States) It is inaccurate to call Get Out a horror film. There is horror — on multiple levels, but that’s not all there is to the movie. It’s more of a horror suspense melange with so…
Why You Should Start Watching Steven Universe NOW
Three years ago, Cartoon Network introduced a show called Steven Universe. I recall my first impression from the commercials as being—well, not impressed. “It’s another show centering another cis male white character,” I sighed to myself. “Nobody ever wants to try anything new or groundbreaking.” But then I heard the show was by a woman…