Miss Fury Vol. 2, #1 Corinna Bechko (writer), Jonathan Lau (illustrator), Vinicius Andrade (colorer), Simon Bowland (letterer) Dynamite April 6, 2016 Disclaimer: This review is based on an advanced review copy from Dynamite and may contain spoilers.
Shinbun Saturday: Death Note Live Action Movie Finds a New Home
Happy Saturday! How about this ridiculous weather we’re getting here in the U.S.? I don’t know what happened to spring but I want it back! The big topic of the week is news that the U.S. Death Note live action movie is moving from Warner Brothers to Netflix. Must we continue with this whitewashed mess?…
Your Invitation To The Mean Girls Club
Mean Girls Club Ryan Heshka (creator) Nobrow Press February, 2016 Disclaimer: This comic will probably maim you if left unattended, but it was also given to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. A gang of ruthless rebels and riotous dames are here to partake in vices and kick some behinds. Welcome…
Do or Die, Kyoko Mogami Style! Ann Yamamoto on the Skip Beat! Kickstarter
Skip Beat! follows 16-year-old Kyoko Mogami on a personal journey to discover different sides of herself as she rises as an actress in the entertainment industry, striving toward her goals no matter which obstacles stand in her path. This shoujo (anime/manga produced for girls) series has been greatly successful since the manga’s publication in 2002,…
That’s What Turns Me On; Or, How Female Superheroes Need Better Sex
There aren’t many examples that come to mind when one is asked to find a sex-positive instance of a female superhero getting her groove on. It’s almost funny: fanboys like to talk up Emma Frost as sexually empowered, but has that woman gotten any good ass lately, or ever? Then on the other side of…
A Study in Black and A Study in Blue: Cartooning Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch is a handsome man. This is empirical. Benedict Cumberbatch is a weird-looking man; this is too. Of course, one could argue that handsomeness, as a marker of especial masculine niceness, is weird in its own right. But that is not the sort of strange that Cumberbatch’s evidential handsomeness is. He’s an odd-looking fucker….
It’s Porn, But Is It Art? A Lost Girls Retrospective
Content Warning: Discussions of sex, rape, and pedophilia. It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since the release of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls—and all the controversy that came with it. Part an attempt to elevate pornography as a genre of storytelling, part a celebration of love and beauty in the face…
Shinbun Saturday: Another Classic Manga Jumps on the Kickstarter Bandwagon
Hello readers! Vernieda checking in from the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, where we’re kicking off April with showers. Hopefully, that means we’ll indeed get flowers in May! Over the past couple years, we’ve been seeing lots of Kickstarters to bring over classic manga like Osamu Tezuka’s extensive catalog and more recently, anime like Escaflowne and Skip Beat!…
Colorist on Coloring: What Is a Flatter?
Hey there, have you been wondering just what the heck a flatter does? Well I am going to give you another long serious professional dissection of what a flatter does and why it is important. To further prove that I am a very boring person obsessed with minutia. [You’re very interesting actually — Ed.] A…
Diamonds in the Rough: Our Problematic Faves, Who Coincidentally, Are Women
WOMEN. We hate’em. Well, a lot of people hate’em. Us. Hate us. Okay, we don’t hate women. We are women. We love women! We love woman characters … whom other people hate. And we’ll defend them. Okay? Just listen.
Review: Do You Miss Your Country?
Do You Miss Your Country? Monika Szydłowska Centrala A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I don’t often talk about my father’s immigration. If I do, it’s usually because I’ve been directly asked about the “when” and “why,” and while the former response is simple, the…
Science in a Gothic Fairy Tale: Porcelain by Benjamin Read & Chris Wildgoose
I read both Porcelain: A Gothic Fairytale and its sequel Porcelain: Bone China in a single sitting. And it’s a good thing I did because had I stopped after just A Gothic Fairytale, had I told myself I’d come back to Volume 2 later on, I probably wouldn’t have felt overly motivated to follow through…
