The Book of Joan Lidia Yuknavitch HarperCollins April 18, 2017 A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Better, more eloquent people than me have reviewed Lidia Yuknavitch’s latest novel, The Book of Joan. It’s been covered by Publishers Weekly, NPR, and the New York Times. For just about…
Adventure Time Issue #68: Dealing with Ageism
Adventure Time #68 August 31, 2017 KaBOOM! Written by Delilah Dawson Drawn by Ian McGinty
Presenting Dark Horse: Lady Killers, Lifeforms, and Hellboy
Welcome to the second installment of Presenting Dark Horse! First, I’d like to give a hearty hello to my new readers, who are surely eager to learn more about this esteemed comics publisher (if you need a quick introduction, check out my first post). Second, here’s a special shoutout to all the poor souls I’ve…
Three Generations of Redemption in Hotel Salvation
Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan) Shubhashish Bhutiani (director), Manas Mittal (editor), David Huwiler, Michael McSweeney (cinematography) Shubhashish Bhutiani and Asad Hussain (writers) Lalit Behl, Adil Hussain, Palomi Ghosh (cast) Released April 7, 2017 (India), August 25, 2017 (UK) Hotel Salvation (Hindi: Mukti Bhawan) is a slow, comic portrayal of grief, death, and letting go. This Indian film by…
On Dream Daddy, Authenticity, and Games by Queer Creators
The pitch for the Dream Daddy dating simulator was simple: play as a queer daddy who gets to romance other, much hotter, queer daddies.
OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes Is Cute But Not Great Yet
OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes Ian Jones-Quartey (creator), John Pham (art director), Toby Jones (supervising director) Stephanie Nadolny, Courtenay Taylor, Ashly Burch, Ian Jones-Quartey, David Herman, Kate Flannery, Chris Niosi, Jim Cummings, Melissa Fahn, Robbie Daymond, Kari Wahlgren (cast) August 1, 2017 (US) It starts with a friendly intro evocative of the Pokemon cartoon theme,…
Surreal Classrooms: The Academic Hour
The Academic Hour Keren Katz Secret Acres The Academic Hour, according to the book jacket, is a series of vignettes about the romance between Pothel, an architecture professor now banned from teaching architecture, and his student Liana. I am not convinced of this. The first hint that this comic is not actually a romance appears…
Rebirth Roundup: Everything for September 6
Welcome back to Rebirth Roundup, as the tikes head back to school and we go to history class! Lots of books this week have things rooted in past eras, be it Shade and Doom Patrol pulling from previous series or Chuck Dixon being stuck in the nineties. Royalty this week goes to Shade the Changing…
SSFX Film Festival Is Finding The Humanity In Sounds From Space
The SSFX Film Festival has a compelling concept: the festival showcases several short films inspired by–and featuring–sounds from space. The festival is part of an astronomy and physics project at Queen Mary University of London, where sounds from space have been recorded. Dr Martin Archer, festival director and space physicist, tells the audience all about…
We All Float Down Here at #FanExpo
One of the most horrifying works from Stephen King, his novel IT, has a new film adaptation of the same name coming to theatres on September 8. As a promotion, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures have created Float: A Cinematic VR Experience, which allows users to encounter Pennywise, the central villain, before his…
The Gunslinger Misses the Mark
Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Stephen King Donald M. Grant, Publisher June 10, 1982 Despite spending most of my life reading almost everything I could get my hands on I had never read a Stephen King novel… until The Gunslinger. When I initially heard there was going to be a film adaptation I was mildly intrigued…
WWE #8: Dean Ambrose and Sasha Banks Get All ‘Mad Max’
WWE #8 Dennis Hopeless, Serg Acuna, Tam Lattie BOOM! Studios Maybe you’re not the sort of person who is drawn in by the premise “Dean Ambrose and Sasha Banks in a monster truck trying to outrun their respective rivals.” Maybe the idea of Sasha Banks diving out the door of a monster truck to attack…
