This year, Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns eighteen. It’s finally graduated high school and has set off for UC Sunnydale to ultimately wash out and become a full time supernatural hero. Oh well, Buffy the College Years were never quite as fun as Buffy on the unlimited budget of adolescent emotion and parental distance. (See:…
Cool Comics of April: Staff Picks
No Mercy Alex de Campi, Carla Speed Mcneil, Jenn Manley Lee Image Comics April 1, 2015 I’m pushing out of my comfort zone and looking for new series from a variety of publishers. For April I’m going to give No Mercy #1 a try. The section of the blurb that pulled at me reads “But after…
Cool Books of April: Staff Picks
Woof Spencer Quinn Scholastic Inc. April 28, 2015 Birdie Gaux and her dog, Bowser, must must solve the case of her Grammy’s missing prize stuffed marlin. In my ongoing quest for age appropriate literature that doesn’t include Minecraft Steve, I’ve chosen a quirky animal mystery for my daughter to bite into to. See what I…
Cinderella! It Can Do Magic, Believe It Or Not: Feminist Fominist Foo! [GIFS]
Disney’s live action reboot of Cinderella is being billed as a feminist retelling of the classic tale, where Ella “isn’t just waiting for her prince” and demands to be accepted on her own terms. However, the movie’s apparent message that soldiering through mistreatment with a stiff upper lip is a kind of ultimate heroism is…
#7DaysFurious: A Fast and Furious Twitter Movie Marathon
Furious 7 debuts on April 3rd. SO SOON, my goodness. In honour of this momentous occasion, please join me, from March 28 to April 2nd, for a nightly Fast and Furious livetweet and feelsfest. I’ll be tweeting out from @womenoncomics using the hashtag #7daysfurious. You will be tweeting back, possibly crying, definitely clapping, enjoying car…
A Comics Creator Harassed Me On Twitter and I Don’t Want to Say His Name
A comics creator harassed me for months on Twitter and I don’t want to say his name. It wasn’t even that bad, is what I’ve always told myself; more an endless stream of Well Actually and gaslighting than threats of harm. It wasn’t even that bad, is what I tell myself, wishing I hadn’t let…
Badertorial Marketnope: The Cover That Should Not Have Been
DC Entertainment: We publish comic books about the greatest heroes in the world, and the most evil villains imaginable. The Joker variant covers for June are in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the Joker. Regardless if fans like Rafael Albuquerque’s homage to Alan Moore’s THE KILLING JOKE graphic novel from 25 years ago, or…
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,…
Short & Sweet: Orphans & Angels
Orphan Black #1 Graeme Manson, John Fawcett, Jody Houser (W) Szymon Kudranski (A), Mat Lopes (C) IDW February 25, 2015
Wonder Woman’s New Outfit: Crotch Flap and Confusion
Wonder Woman has a new outfit! A full coverage outfit! We ought to be happy about this, right? Getting her out of panties and into something more demure is what we want, right? Well… actually…
Super-Cute Vulture Apocalypse: Snackies by Nick Sumida
Snackies Nick Sumida Youth In Decline 2014 Let’s get one thing straight: this is a beautiful little book. That pink cover is enough hot pink to be arresting, but enough shades dark of true hot pink to be just plain nice. The cover illustrations are perfect: joyful, weird, intriguing. And the interior, yes, two-tone, navy…
Memories of Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy passed away on February 27 of this year. Since then, there have been many moving tributes, in newspapers and magazines, in games like Star Trek Online, and even vigils at conventions. Most importantly, his friends and loved ones have shared memories of the man, who, in the course of his long life was a performer,…