I am a nerd. Loudly and proudly. I am also a huge procrastinator and scatterbrain. Put these two things together, and this is what you get… The Procrastinerdor Presents: Brady Roberts: creator and star of the upcoming webseries Nightwing: Prodigal They say it’s a small world, and when it comes to the acting community in…
London Super Comic Con Interview – Kieron Gillen
The last of my LSCC interviews is with Kieron Gillen: comics playlist compiler, prolific Tweeter, author of Über, Young Avengers, the Phonogram series, Three, that run of Journey into Mystery, the upcoming The Wicked and the Divine (and much more), and, of course, 2014 GLAAD award recipient (for Young Avengers). I had originally intended to conduct…
London Super Comic Con Interview: Al Ewing and Lee Garbett
As readers of my convention diaries may recall, at this year’s LSCC I had the chance to interview Al Ewing and Lee Garbett, the writer and artist on the new Marvel Comics series Loki: Agent of Asgard. We started out talking about Loki, but by the time we were done we’d touched on almost anything…
How Do You Feel About Jem: The Movie?
The recent announcement of a Jem live action movie was followed by a lot of buzz. Just as quickly as the excitement took off, the skepticism reared its head, as word got out that creator Christy Marx was not going to be included in the project. So how do fans really feel? We reached out…
Holy Inadvertently Marketing Rape Culture!
Marketing can be a tricky thing; I get it. There has been no shortage of ad campaigns, especially those directed primarily toward men, that have represented women in, let’s just say, questionable ways. Unfortunately, despite the fact that comic book readers and fans are—and always have been—comprised of a large portion of women, comic-books and…
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…
London Super Comic Con Interview: Yanick Paquette
The London Super Comic Con guest interviews continue with artist Yanick Paquette. Originally from Quebec, he has been working in US-published comics since 1994. His past projects include the New 52 Swamp Thing and Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer. He is currently working on the much-hyped graphic novel Wonder Woman: The Trial of Diana Prince, authored by…
Interview with John Layman of Chew
One of the perks of going as press to London Super Comic Con is having the opportunity to interview John Layman, who is a guest and panel host at LSCC this year. Although Layman has written for DC and Marvel Comics and served as an editor at Wildstorm, he is probably best known for authoring…
Interview with Artist Roc Upchurch
Artist Roc Upchurch has been ROCKING Rat Queens and we wanted to catch up with him and find out more about this awesome artist.
Interview: Carson Kreitzer, playwright of Lasso of Truth
Did you know Wonder Woman’s creator also invented the lie detector? Knowing that before creating Diana he was building the first polygraph really puts her lasso’s powers in a whole new light. A new play explores the unusual life William Moulton Marston, the man behind Wonder Woman, and the woman the iconic character was based…
Down Set Fight Ride: Chris Sims’ structure play-by-play
Down Set Fight is just the right title for the book that it is. Short. Violent. Peppy. To the point. It’s nominally about American football–but I don’t even keep an awareness of our regular English sort, and I got on with it just fine.
Climate change comics: Dreams of a Low Carbon Future
I like fiction set “after the/an apocalypse”. Young Adult fiction? Julie Bertagna’s Exodus, Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines, Kresley Cole’s Arcana Chronicles. A-movies? Mad Max trilogy, The Postman (FIGHT ME), Terminator 2. B-movies? Too many to mention! Anime? Hokuto No Ken, GunXSword, Demon City Shinjuku. Comics? Sheltered is great. Old Man Logan (in parts), Akira, Tank Girl, FreakAngels, bit…