Have you ever wondered what deadly nightshade tastes like, and how long it would take to kill you? Or why did they decide to call it mistletoe? Or why violets are so commonly displayed at funerals?
REVIEW: Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of Infertility
This heart-wrenching comics-narrative illustrating one woman’s epic journey towards motherhood is, at turns, also funny and cute. Drawings have a way of taking the sweat out of tragedy, turning it into something more palatable, though still powerful. I drank in Catalogue Baby in a single gulp.
ADVANCE REVIEW: America Chavez: Made in the USA #1
America Chavez is a lot of things: queer, Latina, a great puncher, a good friend, a caring partner. She’s been hailed as good representation and criticized for being bad reputation, been lauded as progressive and torn down as stereotypical. Basically, despite being a relatively young character — she was created by Joe Casey and Nick…
REVIEW: X-Men #18 – Enter Lockdown
“From this point forward, you cannot depend on time to function in any manner resembling normal. It waxes and wanes, like temporal tides.”
REVIEW: Wolverine #10 Makes The Hard Sell
Wolverine, as a book, is very easy to dismiss, and for good reason! This volume, however, is quietly chugging along, doing some of the same heavy lifting as X-Force in terms of how it handles questions of masculinity.
REVIEW: Marvel Voices: Legacy #1 Is a Heartwarming Tribute to Many of Marvel’s Black Characters
Marvel Voices: Legacy #1 is an anthology of new stories, largely featuring Marvel’s greatest Black heroes and anti-heroes, written, drawn, and coloured by a host of Black creatives.
DC PUBWATCH – February 2021 Edition
It’s February! The shortest month, the coldest month, and the month of romance! So what does that mean for DC Comics? Well at the very least it means DC’s annual Valentine’s day themed giant is here, along with the second half of their Future State event. Will The Dreaming: Waking Hours #7 continue to lay…
REVIEW: I’m a Wild Seed Is a Vibrant Journey of Queerness and Self-Discovery
“What does freedom look like for you as a queer BIPOC?” This is the question from a friend that inspired Sharon Lee De La Cruz to write and draw I’m a Wild Seed, a fun, vibrant, and moving exploration of her journey of self-discovery.
REVIEW: Captain Marvel: Marvels Snapshots #1 Does Not Fly Higher, Further, Faster
In Captain Marvel: Marvels Snapshots #1, a teenager in search of inspiration meets her heroes and learns that her experiences aren’t that different from everyone else’s.
REVIEW: The Legend of Shang-Chi #1 Doesn’t Land the Blow
With the release date for the Shang-Chi movie moving closer, I was excited to read a new comic centering on the character. The Legend of Shang-Chi puts the titular hero at the heart of a kind of anti-heist, going toe-to-toe with an equally capable thief. As a solo story, I hoped to see what made…
ADVANCE REVIEW: Nightwing #78 Returns to What Makes the Character Great
Dick Grayson has long been one of my favorite characters in fiction. He’s the beating heart of the DC Universe. He’s a hero that was allowed to grow up, to become his own man, to forge his own path away from that of his mentor. All of the original Teen Titans have a place in…
Life, Death and Twisted Romance: The Taxidermist’s Lover by Polly Hall
Scarlett Pepper’s husband Henry is a skilled taxidermist, but despite his talents, he is struggling to get by in a dwindling marketplace. While surfing the net Scarlett comes across the work of another taxidermist, Felix De Souza. Unlike the Henry, a reclusive soul who mistrusts the Internet, Felix proudly showcases his creations to the public…
