Orphan Black returns for season four by taking viewers to a place we did not expect: the past. The episode opened by throwing us right into the mystery that started it all, but from a whole new angle and through the eyes of a brand new clone, and the clone who started us down this rabbit…
Why I Love Erotic Fanfic and What I Learned From It
Fanfiction has a historical relationship to erotica and porn Slash: the subset of fanfiction that now encompasses all sorts of queer relationships that originally denoted a sexual relationship between Kirk and Spock through punctuation (K/S) as opposed to other punctuation markers which denoted friendship or non-sexual relationships (K+S). But contemporary mainstream media, thanks to stories like 50 Shades…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Me Hope for Comics
There’s been a few awesome announcements this week around Marvel, but all anyone is talking about is Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Selfreeze, so it probably isn’t a surprise that I’m going to write about it too. This isn’t a review of the comic so much as it is an encomium of…
Mighty Marvel Monday: The End of March Madness
Hey, friends. It’s been a bad week for me, but it hasn’t been a completely awful week for Marvel, so I suppose that’s something. Let’s start off with something interesting, shall we? Like these pictures of Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor during filming for Doctor Strange that were tweeted out. I still have many reservations…
Avengers Academy: Everyone’s Playing It
Recently, TinyCo released MARVEL Avengers Academy, and it’s been all many phone gamers can talk about. Tea Fougner reviewed the game for us when it first came out, but after hours of gameplay our writers still had more to say. So, why is this game so addictive? Kate: So, I play my games on my…
DC Devotees and Making Mine Marvel: What Does Brand Loyalty Mean In Comics?
Are you “a Marvel fan?” Dedicated to DC? Do you have a loyalty to a different publisher or publishing brand? Does this whole idea perplex or enrage you? Where do you stand in terms of publisher loyalty? We’re thinking about it.
Mighty Marvel Monday: Wondercon and More
It is the last Mighty Marvel Monday of March, Easter Monday, and also two days before my little sister’s birthday (Happy Birthday Vic!), so let’s get to it. This past weekend was Wondercon, which is basically the dry run for SDCC. We saw the new RFID badges that SDCC will be using this year, and…
Mighty Marvel Monday: C2E2, Daredevil, and More
Welcome back to another regularly scheduled Mighty Marvel Monday thanks to Marvel managing to not muck it up for another week! This week’s MMM is pretty short, but expect next week’s to be extra long, due to more articles on Daredevil and also my Wondercon coverage. If you’re going to be around, say hi! So…
Knit Your Comics: Wonder Woman Bootliners
Before we get to this month’s pattern, I have to pause and celebrate for a minute, because Knit Your Comics was featured in Bitch Planet #7! I’m incredibly grateful to Lauren Sankovitch, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and Laurenn McCubbin for contacting me about featuring the pattern as part of #Bitchcraft, and also letting me add a…
Mighty Marvel Monday: All-New, All-Different Continuity
Friendly reminder that the second season of Daredevil will debut this Friday on Netflix. I am very grateful that it’s this weekend and not next weekend, since next weekend is Wondercon. As with Jessica Jones’ release, I’m anticipating linking the best articles I can find that can be written in 24 hours. Until then, I…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Make Mine Diverse, Marvel
It’s the first week of March, and this is a reminder that we only have to wait ten more days until season two of Daredevil is available on Netflix. The biggest Marvel news of the week is probably the rumor that due to the public outcry against the casting of Finn Jones as Iron Fist, Marvel…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Bad News For Diversity
So last week’s Mighty Marvel Monday, I wrote about how wonderful it was to see Marvel making actual attempts at diversifying its creative teams and also being recognized for the quality work they do (side note: isn’t it weird how the stories being written by women – that have characters from underrepresented groups being treated as…