I picked a good week to talk about Marvel Comics. Yesterday, at the Long Beach Comic Expo, Ms. Marvel won the 2016 Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award. This is the second year of the award, and my second year attending. Both years, tears were shed, and the atmosphere in the room is one of family, community,…
Knit Your Comics: Sexy Deadpool Banana Hammock
Some ideas are just too good not to do. I was brainstorming Deadpool-related ideas for February’s Knit Your Comics with our Editor-in-Chief. Since the column comes out just a few days after the movie’s release, and I kind of have had a crush on Ryan Reynolds since Blade: Trinity, and I have watched many a…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Mini-Deadpool Review and Other Marvel Movie News
This week, as part of playing catch up with all the 2016 Marvel news, and in light of Deadpool being released, I’m focusing on the Marvel movies and TV shows. Next week, I plan on refocusing on the comics. So, like all the best stories, let’s get started with the sad, wind our way towards…
My First Closet Cosplay: What Faith Means for Fat Girls
I don’t really cosplay. I qualify that “really,” because although I have made costumes and have dressed up like some of my favorite characters, being a fat girl, I understood that when I dressed up like a character, there was always that understanding that it wasn’t really cosplay, because that character wasn’t fat.
Mighty Marvel Monday: The Deadpool Dilemma and Other Superbowl Goodies
Welcome back to a regularly scheduled Mighty Marvel Monday! It’s been over a month since I’ve done a traditional news round up, so it’s about time, right? Especially since Deadpool comes out this weekend and the Superbowl gave us so many new awesome commercials. And emojis! So let’s get started.
Review: X-Files Revival, Episodes 1 and 2
Despite Ginnis’ lack of cable, Kate and Gin finally got the chance to discuss what they have been waiting for ever since it was first announced: The X-Files revival.
Mighty Marvel Monday: Perlmutter, Trump, and the Boycott Dilemma
I was totally planning to talk about normal Marvel stuff this week, but then Ike Perlmutter donated $1 million to Donald Trump and that became the thing to talk about for people working in comics, people who write about comics, and even people who have never read a comic before. There seems to be a…
Mighty Marvel Monday: The State of Marvel Comics Part Three
It’s the final Mighty Marvel Monday of January, and the one year anniversary of my first Mighty Marvel Monday. It means a lot to me to still be here, being a less British version of John Oliver and also being able to break from the genre of weekly news link roundup and devote full weeks…
Gin & Kate’s Hopes for The X-Files Revival
The X-Files revival premieres this Sunday, January 24th, on Fox, and Gin and Kate are extremely excited! But there’s always cause for concern when a beloved pop culture artifact is rebooted or redone, so Gin and Kate sat down to discuss ten hopes they have for the revival.
Knit Your Comics: Game Knit X-Files Scarf
I am a ridiculous fan of The X-Files. I watched the pilot when I was 12 years old and I never looked back, even when it was traumatizing (“Home”—oh my god). I went to an X-Files convention in Portland back in the 90s. My dad, who ran a limousine service at the time, provided the…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Marvel and Diversity
I want to continue this week in looking at the way Marvel has (or hasn’t) made progress in 2015, paying particular attention to diversity and underrepresented groups. I also want to look at characters, creators, and other aspects. In the world of Marvel Comics, the highs this year were pretty high. Ms. Marvel continued to…
Review: The Feminist Narrative inside the Bro-tastic Superman: American Alien #3
Superman: American Alien #3 Max Landis (Writer), Joelle Jones (Illustrator), Rico Renzi (Colorist), John Workman (Letterer) DC Comics January 13, 2016 This review is based on an advanced copy from DC Comics and contains spoilers.