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Confessions of a Gaming Mom
I am a gamer. I am a mom. Can I be both? Damn right I can.
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Wendy Browne
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What’s Hot? April 2014
Wendy I’m flailing all over the place over the new Rat Queens trade out this week. Jamie I’m loving the settlement credits I am getting from amazon.com and bn.com — apparently there was something involving the prices of ebooks on the NY Times Bestseller list. So both companies ...
Telling the Perfect Interactive Story
Telltale Games does exactly what their name implies: they tell stories in the form of video games. But not just any stories. The company produces games that feature masterful storytelling and incredible characters, building on richly established worlds that gamers and non-gamers alike will ...
Short & Sweet: Surfing and Surviving
Silver Surfer #1 Dan Slott and Mike Allred; cover by Mike Allred Marvel Comics Oh, this is gonna be fun. Our Surfer is out in space doing his Surfer thing, being kind to smaller creatures and suchlike. But many years ago, twin girls Eve and Dawn mistook him for a falling star and made a ...
The Walking Dead: You get to come back
Somewhere in the first half season two of The Walking Dead, I tapped out. This was a zombie show that had a severe lack of zombies popping out to actually kill people. Instead, there were a lot of people whining and bitching at each other, while accomplishing a whole lot of nothing. I returned ...
Behind the Scenes with Windblade’s Mairghread Scott and Sarah Stone
Every night, I fall asleep beneath the watchful eye of Optimus Prime and his Autobots on one side of my bed, and Megatron and his minions on the other. I grew up in the ‘80s, which makes me a Transformers: Generation One kind of girl, while writer Mairghread Scott and artist Sarah Stone grew up ...
Short & Sweet
Uncanny X-Men #18 Bendis, Lozano, Rudy Marvel Comics What. Was. This? Aside from the cover, which messes with the suspension of disbelief (how in the hell do you get close enough to Cyclops, wonky powers or not, to hold a gun to his head?), this issue is a dramatic shift straight into huh? from ...
Catwoman: The Loss of a Lady
Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman adorned my high school locker, but it wasn’t until recently that I’ve made any real attempt to get to know this character. I’ve always liked Selina Kyle, but I didn’t know why, beyond having an affinity for feline-esque, rule-defying women. Yet she sits among ...
Short & Sweet: That Comic Game
It’s an all Wendy, all game-adaptations edition of Short & Sweet! We(ndy) reviews Tomb Raider #1 and Mass Effect: Foundation #8.
