Light Carries On is a haunting love story that surreptitiously defies your tired expectations to surprise you with genuine empathy, healing and joy. Light Carries On Ray Nadine Dark Horse Books May 16, 2023 Light Carries On opens with Leon, our romantic lead, simmering with dissatisfaction. He’s a guy who knows what he wants, and…
ESSAY: Big Ethel Energy is the Comfort Read That Grows With You
When I was a teenager, I first got hooked on comics due to the 2015 “New Riverdale” relaunch over at Archie Comics. Back then I wanted to be desirable and wealthy like Veronica Lodge and cool and capable like Betty Cooper. Ethel Muggs was a non-entity in these rebranded stories–a creative decision which now retroactively…
ESSAY: Finding God in No Man’s Land — Christian Influence in Trigun
In episode 3 of the new Trigun Stampede series, Knives tells Vash a story of God. He evokes the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, saying, “Once, God rained down fire from [the] heavens to destroy a corrupt city of fools to create a righteous world.” With this, Stampede took the Christian elements that colored the…
Octopus Pie Eternal: A Wibbly Wobbly Timeline
On November 23rd, Meredith Gran posed a question on Twitter: “Lately I’ve been wondering if I should draw more Octopus Pie as the characters age. I guess this is a typical dilemma for an artist: find a new conduit for exploring life as you live it, or risk turning the old one into a whole…
Carmilla’s Kindred: Countess Dolingen and Dracula’s Guest
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature. This is the last in the series. No discussion of female vampires in nineteenth-century literature would be complete without mentioning “Dracula’s Guest”, even though this story did not see publication…
Carmilla’s Kindred: Ivan Turgenev and Unhappy Clara
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
Carmilla’s Kindred: Gogol and The Viy
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
Carmilla’s Kindred: The Virgin Vampire
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
Carmilla’s Kindred: The Vampire Portraits of Hume Nisbet
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
ESSAY: Mazel Tov, Kate Pryde! A Look at Uncanny X-Men #143
In Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s Uncanny X-Men #143 (1981), Kate Pryde’s Judaism enables her to undertake a series of Home Alone-style shenanigans when the rest of the X-Men leave to visit their families for Christmas. But the role of Kate’s Judaism in this story goes beyond serving as the plot device that leaves her alone…
Carmilla’s Kindred: A Good Lady and a Cold Embrace
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
Carmilla’s Kindred: Vampire Brides
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.