Those colours. That face. That hair. That blood spatter. Everything about this cover demanded that I watch the trailer for Larime Taylor’s A Voice in the Dark from Image Comics. It promised me that this book was everything I wanted: “Featuring such pop culture commercial kryptonite like a female protagonist, realistically drawn women, persons of…
Conventional Parenting
Planning on taking a wee one along to a convention? As with any outing involving children, good planning is required to ensure fun is had by all involved. We’ve been taking our daughters, aged six and eight, to Toronto’s FanExpo since our eldest was two months shy of bursting from my womb, and we’ve learned…
Sharknado 2: The Best One Yet
Up until last year, The Boneyard topped my list of movies that are so bad that they are awesome. What could possibly be better than a horror movie featuring Phyllis Diller and an eight foot tall zombie poodle? Why, a tornado full of sharks, of course.
Kotex Heads to Comic Con – Because Geek Girls Bleed Too
For Christmas one year, my friends got me a Razer Naga gaming mouse. When I picked up my monthly requirements a short while later, my husband was confused. “Why did you buy another gaming mouse?” “This isn’t a gaming mouse, dear. These are gaming tampons.”
R/W: Do Not Stray From the Subject
Welcome back to R/W, your weekend roundup of essays and articles on reading, writing, and literacy. This week, the CIA style manual, Iggy Azalea, and The Fault In Our Stars bust into the dusty halls of the literary eeeelite.
Pigeons! The First WWAC Sunday Art Gala
It’s Sunday! Lazy, restful, busy or boring; it doesn’t matter, because either way you’re here with us now. In art class! Sundays are art club days, from now on. Wanna join in? We’ve taken a few minutes here and there to each draw a doodle on a single theme. Take a look through, admire our…
Sort of Surviving the Steam Summer Sale
Last year, my husband saw me playing Saints Row the Third and promptly bought it on Steam for himself. At full price. I had to shake my head. Steam sales happen too often to ever justify paying full price on Steam for a video game. If a game on your wish list isn’t on sale,…
Ubisoft Says It’s Too Hard to Woman
Ubisoft‘s Assassin’s Creed sits on my Steam Wall of Shame and will likely be joined by many more games in the near future thanks to the pending Steam Summer Sale. Like the other games on my list, I swear I am going to play it one day. I love games with strong story and character development, and…
Rat Queens Coming Soon to a Television Near You
Hannah, Violet, Dee and Betty are coming to a television near you. If those words alone don’t make you squeal with utter joy, then you’ve clearly missed out on the glory that is Rat Queens, a comic full of heart, soul, wit and sass.
Kickstarter of the Week: Bring Reading Rainbow to Children Everywhere
My brother set me on the road to bibliophilia by teaching me to read dinosaur books at age two, but it was LeVar Burton who guided me down that path with his Reading Rainbow. I consider the television show to be a major part of my childhood and even created a little bookclub in its honour. But…
The Evolution of a Gamer
There have been all sorts of influential people and moments in my life that have shaped me into the geek I am today. One Christmas, my father, then a district manager at Radio Shack, brought home a Tandy Color Computer. He unknowingly started me on a path he’s never quite come to understand, but three decades…
The Making of ‘She Makes Comics’
With several months to go until its estimated January 2015 delivery date, production for the documentary She Makes Comics is well underway, and director Marisa Stotter has spent the last little while staring at hours of raw footage. After rounds of interviews at the recent Emerald City Comic Con and with the San Diego Comic…