Legenderry Red Sonja #1 Marc Andreyko (w), Aneke (a) Joe Benitez & Ivan Nunes (cover A) Cedric Poulat (cover B) Sergio Fernandez Davila & Ivan Nunes (cover C) Admittedly, I haven’t read any of the Legenderry series. I read Fables for awhile, but stopped after Snow married Bigby because she then became drastically less interesting…
Quick Change: Linda of the Day
It is eight o’clock in the morning and your fellow geek calls you up and announces a last-minute con she has decided to attend. Obviously, you have to go with her, but what to wear? It is now time to perform your own superhuman feat and put together an acceptable geek outfit from easily found…
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: Usagi Yojimbo Returns and Kirkman TV News
Usagi Yojimbo Returns in May with New On-Going Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo has become an independent comic legend over its 30 years of publication, and now a new on-going will debut in May from Dark Horse. This may be a good spot for new readers to get to know the titular character, a wandering samurai…
Cute Is Not Always Safe! Cover Stories: Judge a Book on Whether You’d Buy It
This time on Cover Stories, where we judge a book by the first face it presents… Ani-Imo: Volume 1 Haruko Kurumatani Yen Press The spine White! White looks clean and stands out. It’s confident. The font choices are all cute and the colour scheme is pleasant. I love a very round font; it looks so comfortable!…
Mighty Marvel Monday
I return! Like a bad penny. Or Cassie Lang, because everyone agrees her death was basically fridging and stupid anyway. And now without further ado: This week(ish) in Marvel Above the Fold Probably the biggest headline, but just in case you missed it, Marvel and Sony have finally reached a joint custody agreement over Spider-Man,…
Women As Superheroes: A Comic Drawing Workshop to Celebrate 40 Years of The Feminist Library
A free comic workshop led by artists Sally Jane Thompson, Rachael Smith, and Karen Rubins in London at The Feminist Library? I’d signed up faster than you can say sequential-art-salon-in-Southwark.
Review: 2000AD, Prog 1917
2000AD, Prog 1917 Writers: Various Artists: Various Rebellion Two stories come to an end in this week’s prog: one just in time, and one too soon. The former is “Ulysses Sweet, Maniac for Hire: Psycho-Therapist” (writer: Guy Adams; artists: Paul Marshall and Chris Blythe), which relied too heavily on flippant discussions of violence that were…
Con Diaries: Local Scenes, Balcony Views, and Why I’m a True Believer
Over this winter, Andy Oliver has been publishing State of the Small Press Nation, a look at the sudden abundance of cartoonist shows around Britain, wondering what that swell in numbers means–for the exhibitors and for the scene in general. It’s interesting stuff with views and experiences “from prominent small press creators to DIY culture…
Sad Metal Losers: Date Night With WWAC
If I’m going to spend Valentines apart from my sweetie, there has to be a reason for it. So let’s begin to weave this alternate reality. Spring 2015: WWAC launches Patreon campaign (spoiler: this is our reality, so get your wallet ready). Late 2015: WWAC explodes into cash-richness. Early 2016: I must travel to Japan,…
Rice, Spice, and Two Makes Nice: Date Night WIth WWAC
I’ve been on a total of ten dates in my life. Which might seem like a lot, but considering they were all with the same guy in my senior year of high school probably not. I don’t often date; actually I never date. But in the face of six feet of tall, bronzed, and red…
Kickstarter of the Week: Geek Loves Punk
A lesbian geek and her best friends try to figure out their lives and their relationships in the sweet comedy, Geek Loves Punk. In the Geek Loves Punk Kickstarter, filmmaker Julie Kerr expands the Geek Loves Punk story from her original short film to a full length feature. The story focuses on Elizabeth, a lesbian…
The DC Daily Planet: Avoid Black Cats
…or don’t. I own one, and thus far he hasn’t brought me any especially bad luck, even on Fridays the 13th. Most of the DC news this week has been more speculation than anything else: everyone’s talking about the post-CONVERGENCE breakaway from the New 52, but there are a few other items of note… For…
