Here’s your chance to weigh in on the final girls of horror. Who’s your favourite? Who kicks the most monster butt? Tell us in the comments! Whence the final girl? Some say it all started with Psycho. Others point to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. However it started, the final girl has had a strong presence in horror cinema…
News & Things: Is it still bestiality, if the turtle talks, and walks on two legs?
Welcome back to News & Things! Of course, this week we’ll all be digesting news from New York Comic Con, but here are some non-NYCC stories to cleanse your pallet! News IDW To Publish Parker Prose Novels With Illustrations by Darwyn Cooke You might recall that IDW publishes Cooke’s graphic adaptations of the Richard Stark/Donald Westlake noir…
News & Things: Suburban Zombies
Kickstarter of the Week Instead of promoting a Kickstarter this week, I’m going to point you to a radio show that needs no kickstarting. CBC’s Q with Jian Ghomeshi featured an interview this week with Kickstarter co-founder Yancy Stickler. He talks about the meteoric growth of the site, the future of arts funding, and some…
Nipple Care Tips for Matt Fraction, and also Sex Criminals
Last Wednesday night I went to a sex club and watched Matt Fraction have his nipple pierced. He fainted. The heat, he says. The club was packed to the rafters with bodies, so I believe it. The piercing was in honour of his new ongoing series, Sex Criminals. With Fraction writing, and the notorious Chip…
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…
News & Things: Your week in awful (and I’m not talking about Forever 21)
News MTV Geek Closes Up Shop What does it meeeean? After AOL ditched Comics Alliance earlier this year, the news that MTV Geek is headed to the blog afterlife (there’s always Internet Archive!), surely has the paid geek-blogosphere wringing hands. Splashpage will remain in operation. Steven Soderbergh’s Twitter Novella Is Now a Hardcover Book (But…
Intersections: Race, Gender, and Comics.
Today we kick off a sprawling new series of essays, interviews, and roundtables. And by sprawling I mean that it’s gonna take awhile. Intersections: Race, Gender, and Comics will look at the comics industry, fandom, and representations of race and gender in comics and their various adaptations. This isn’t a series on race AND gender…
Summer Movie Roundtable: Part two
Our Megan Byrd, Mai Pucik, and Ashley Schmuecker, along with guest commentators/hecklers Shannon Rahe and Vicki Essex joined me to talk about summer movies. In this part we discuss Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, Wolverine, and the state of the comic book movie. You can find part one here. *** We haven’t talked at all about…
Summer Movie Roundtable 2013: Part one
Hey, it’s our second annual summer movie roundtable! This time we’ve got our own Megan Byrd, Mai Pucik, and Ashley Schmuecker on deck, along with guest commentators/hecklers Shannon Rahe and Vicki Essex. In part one (of two) we talk Pacific Rim, Kick-Ass 2, the Fast and Furious franchise, and so-called “diversity casting”. *** Ok team, let’s…
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: So far I hate it
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. opens with a soft-toned, unimpassioned voiceover: o brave new world, that has such super-people and super-agents in it. (No exclamation mark). It moves from there to a series of familiar situations, peopled with familiar characters. The sassy hacker. The loner super spy. The down on his luck dad-turned-hero. The tough girl agent…
News & Things: Bi Pride, we have it!
Welcome back to News & Things! Today it’s all bi everything, in honour of yesterday’s Bi Pride/Bisexuality Visibility Day. News Why are the Fall’s LGBT Movies Going Straight to DVD? Film.com discusses an unfortunate trend in queer film distribution. Bi Political Leaders Blazing a Trail for Others Ellyn Ruthstrom on five notable out bisexual U.S….
News & Things: Lawyers, accountants, executives… comics.
Kickstarter of the Week Small press publisher Yeti Press has launched a Kickstarter to their operations over the next year. That may sound like it’s skirting the Kickstarter rules that Penny Arcade (almost) ran afoul of, but it doesn’t quite. The Kickstarter is aimed at taking their business to the next level, rather than funding…