Catie here, filling in for Laura this week! The DC news-sphere is pretty Bat-heavy this week…which means it’s probably not too different from most DC news weeks! We now have solid, irrefutable proof that DC has reached its “grim and gritty” apex and is starting to emerge on the other side…there are now official adorably…
I Want To Believe: A Dialogue About Media, Narrative, Nostalgia, and The X-Files
The X-Files: Season 10, Vol. 1 Joe Harris (W) Carlos Valenzuela (A) IDW December 31, 2013
Review: Red Sonja: Vulture’s Circle #3
Red Sonja: Vulture’s Circle #3 Nancy A. Collins, Luke Lieberman (w) Fritz Casas (a) Jay Anacleto, Walter Geovani, Lucio Parrillo (c) Dynamite March 18, 2015 After Red Sonja’s School for Wayward Warrior Girls burned down in issue #2, Red Sonja and her crew regroup and replan. Meanwhile, Red Sonja gets back in touch with her…
Cook Your Comics: Monitor Duty Lasagna
Monitor duty: it’s the superhero team job for which I am best suited, what with my lack of superpowers or fighting skills. I’m good at staring at screens for long periods of time, occasionally pointing at something and saying, “Hey, we need to fix that!” A big part of my job is writing and editing…
What’s Loud, Proud, and Somehow Invisible? Diversity At The Creative Level
A couple of years ago, I read an interesting article about a young woman moved to tears by a panel discussion on “Women Who Kick Ass” at the San Diego Comic-Con. While waiting in line for hours to see the panel, our narrator had the misfortune of standing behind a few white dudes who continuously made…
YA Bloggers Read Gotham Academy, A Roundtable
At the start of the year, I thought about the ways in which comics could market itself more successfully to a wider audience. More specifically, how can Marvel and DC Comics sell certain titles to an audience that isn’t already tapped into comics (or at least into their vast universes) but who would love some of their current…
Rubens Won’t Save You: You Don’t Get to Use Art History to Justify Violence Against Women in Comics
Content warning: we’re talking rape imagery and rape culture. You’re in an elegant gallery, looking up at a statue of a woman and a man. The man has his arms around the woman. Her face is contorted in fear. Tears stream from her eyes. “Wow,” think you, the art critic. “What an emotionally raw and…
We Must, We Must…Support Janelle Asselin’s Kickstarter for Romance Comics Anthology!
How perfectly serendipitous. I recently interviewed the amazing Jacque Nodell, a romance comic historian, about her site Sequential Crush and her research in romance comics. When I asked her if she thought there was a current romance genre in comics, she said while there are comics with “romantic elements and romantic fare from overseas, such…
Rat Queens Wins GLAAD Media Award
The GLAAD Media Awards, granted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. Each year, they honor excellence in print and digital media, television, movies and comic books. This…
Comics On Your Digital Bookshelf: Scribd is Not the App it Could Be
I originally signed up for Scribd last summer. I knew a couple people who used it already for its unlimited ebooks, as well as a similar service, Oyster. I initially went with Scribd, though, because in addition to unlimited ebooks it offered audiobooks too. I love audiobooks but I do not love the price of…
Legenderry: Red Sonja #2 or What Happens When You Give Red Sonja a Rocket Launcher
Legenderry: Red Sonja #2 Marc Andreyko (w) Aneke (a) Sergio Fernandez Davila (c) Dynamite March 18, 2015
Con Diaries: London Super Comic Con
My first impression of my second year at London Super Comic Con was that the programming seemed, for a lack of a better word, very dudely. A lot of time was given to Avatar Press and Max Brooks, and not much time to more obviously inclusive publishers or creators. Even the brief moderated portion of…
