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Felicia Day is Disappointed In You, #GamerGate, And You Proved Her Right

October 23, 2014

Last night, Felicia Day — creator of The Guild and all around awesome person — posted a gentle I’m Not Mad, I’m Just Disappointed to members of #GamerGate. Her post is thoughtful, sympathetic, and focused not on the hideous bile spewing from every orifice of the ...

Opinion

Scariest Movie of My Life: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

October 21, 2014

The movie—or movie series—that has scared me for the longest and with the greatest intensity is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series. The original (which is technically titled The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) came out before I was born and has loomed in the shadows my whole life. Growing up in ...

Comics, Opinion

The Power of Tank Girl: One Girl’s Personal Diary

October 21, 2014

Are you ready for some TANK GIIIIIRL? Many of you may have been born ready. Many of you may know her of old. But if you’re new? No probs. That just means you’re lucky, cos the tank’s full (of comics), and the night is long. Tank Girl is a girl—a woman, in my reading, but ...

Opinion

You Wanted a Movement? #StopGamerGate2014

October 15, 2014

Yesterday afternoon, Utah State University was sent anonymous threats of violence. “Feminists have ruined my life,” the man claimed. He would shoot up the university, targeting women, especially feminists, if Anita Sarkeesian was allowed to give a planned talk on sexism in video ...

Opinion

Products Over People: What GamerGate Gets Wrong

October 13, 2014

When I was ten and my brother twelve, we got Sunday morning paper routes. He used his money to buy gaming consoles; I used mine to buy comics. He stayed up late most nights gaming, and most mornings he’d be dead to the world in compensation. I was stuck delivering his share of the papers ...

Opinion

Remember Swimsuit Issues? I Miss Those

October 10, 2014

When Marvel presented its Milo Manara variant cover to Spiderwoman #1, the internet exploded with people condemning both Marvel and the artist for the unnecessary sexualization of the character. The defenders of Manara’s work argue that you can find similar poses at a yoga studio or complain ...

Comics, Opinion

Why PANELS Will Be Good for Comics Journalism and Comics Readers

October 7, 2014

BookRiot launched a companion site dedicated to comics called Panels. I cursed. I vowed revenge. More competition? Fucking great. But while I was annoyed on a personal (financial) level to see another big, general interest, comics site sprout up, I was also pleased as punch on a professional ...

Comics, Opinion, Style & Fashion

Sequential Sartorial: The Wardrobe of Colleen Wing

October 6, 2014

Sequential Sartorial! It’s gonna be a new thing! Talking about costume design in comics: GOOD costume design. This week: Colleen Wing, 2006. First things first: does anybody want my copy of Daughters of the Dragon, trade number one (“Samurai Bullets”)? Pay the postage and it’s yours. I ...

Essays, Opinion

Trigger Warning: Fantasy vs Reality

September 18, 2014

I hate the dark. As in full-on shaking, bones trembling, sweat-breaking-out-along-the-nape-of-my-neck fear. It’s a strange thing to admit to people because being afraid of the dark is something children fear. Being afraid of the dark is something people associate with weakness and immaturity. ...

Opinion

Ghost in the Shell: The Major’s Body (8)

September 12, 2014

The Major, or Motoko Kusanagi, is the protagonist of each incarnation of the Ghost in the Shell manga-anime-merchadise franchise. If you care to google, “Motoko Kusanagi is“ autocompletes to “a man” and “is hot,” then “in bed with a boy” and “in bed.” For a science-fiction philosophy character ...

Opinion

Felicia Day is Disappointed In You, #GamerGate, And You Proved Her Right

Scariest Movie of My Life: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Power of Tank Girl: One Girl’s Personal Diary

You Wanted a Movement? #StopGamerGate2014

Products Over People: What GamerGate Gets Wrong

Remember Swimsuit Issues? I Miss Those

Why PANELS Will Be Good for Comics Journalism and Comics Readers

Sequential Sartorial: The Wardrobe of Colleen Wing

Trigger Warning: Fantasy vs Reality

Ghost in the Shell: The Major’s Body (8)

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