Games allow us to do a great many things: fly, fight ghosts, garden out of season. While gardening may not be the most magical of skills, nor the most common topic for gaming, it can be almost as rewarding as the real thing when it’s done right with few of the downsides.
Searching for Glendower: Reflecting on The Raven Cycle
In 2012 Scholastic took the Young Adult book world by storm when they published The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, the first book in the new Raven Cycle series. It stared a young girl named Blue Sargent, who lives with her aunts, all of whom are clairvoyant, in a small town. Blue’s life may be unconventional…
Funko and Marvel’s Women of Power
I’ve been diligently avoiding subscription boxes for quite a while now, vicariously living through my friend’s subscription instead. The field has become so saturated with subscription boxes there’s now one available for everything you can imagine. But what if you don’t want everything you can imagine? What if you want to be a bit frugal, even as…
#ComicBookHour: An Interview with Creator Jamie Me
What do you do on Sundays at 10:00AM PST? If you love comics, you ought to be spending the time chatting about them. For just an hour of your Sunday, you can add your voice, along with other readers and creators from all over the world, to the themed Twitter discussion. The catch? No catch. Just…
Monstrous, Beautiful, and Bloody: Penny Dreadful #1
Penny Dreadful #1 Krysty Wilson-Cairns (writer), Louie De Matinis (illustrator), Simon Bowland (letterer), Lizzie Kaye (editor) Titan Comics May 11, 2016 (Note: This review and interview contains some spoilers for and is based on an advance copy of Penny Dreadful #1 from Titan Comics.) “Cheap sensational fiction.” That is how the original penny dreadful stories are…
Dogears: An Unscripted History of Dragons
My Unscripted Life Lauren Morrill Delacorte (Random House) October 11, 2016 Lauren Morrill is a comforting voice in YA fiction, with contemporary romances that aren’t surprising but still engaging. But My Unscripted Life is the least captivating of her books thus far—it’s a novel that elevates romance at the expense of character development and story growth….
Returning to the Four Lands: A Shannara Chronicles Roundtable
Season one of The Shannara Chronicles came to a dramatic close, then spiraled into a cliffhanger that promised more adventures in the post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Based The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks, the show takes us on the journey of half-elf Wil Ohmsford (Austin Butler), human rogue, Eretria (Ivana Basquero), and the elf princess,…
Review: Dejah Thoris #3
Dejah Thoris #3 Frank J. Barbiere (writer), Francesco Manna (artist), NEN (cover) Dynamite Comics, April 2016 Disclaimer: A review copy of this comic was provided by the publisher. The dethroned princess of Helium’s journey of discovery takes many leaps and bounds to get her to her destination. We’re not getting much exposition to get us from…
WWAC Weekend Review: Sex Toys, K-Drama, Sad Puppies, and Daredevil
Did you miss out on something this week at Women Write About Comics? Don’t worry! Here’s your chance to play catch up!
Sex Pixels: A Roundtable Discussion About Sex in Games
It’s sex month here at WWAC, and video games are one of the sexiest mediums around. Also the least sexy. So, the Games section sat down to chat pixels and porn. What sexy video games do you play, reader?
The Jungle Book: My Misplaced Trust in Scarlett Johansson
The Jungle Book Director: Jon Favreau Starring: Neel Sethi, Scarlet Johansson, Bill Murray, Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley, Giancarlo Esposito, Lupita Nyong’o, Christopher Walken Screenplay: Justin Marks (based on the story by Rudyard Kipling) Disney Released: April 15, 2016 I had no interest in seeing Disney’s latest live actioning of their classic cartoons. I loved the…
WWAC Weekend Review: Telling it Like it Is
Here at WWAC, we are never afraid to speak our minds, even–especially–when our minds don’t fall in with the reigning sentiment. Whether we are loving Gambit and sexy fanfiction, or hate hate hating that awful Dr. Strange trailer, we are going to share our honest criticisms and critiques. Because that is what we do. On Monday… Ta-Nehisi…