Each year Pride Month seems to bring along several Top 10 LGBTQ character lists scattered across comic book news sites. This isn’t a bad thing–not that long ago you would have been hard-pressed to find 10 major LGBTQ characters in mainstream comic books–but sometimes the lists get a little predictable. Northstar, Batwoman, Wiccan and Hulking–these…
The DC Daily Planet: Payment Plans, Perfidious Profligates, and Premieres
Everybody’s buzzing about DC this week, and for once, it’s for something done absolutely right. Let’s check in and see what the fuss is about, shall we?
741.5: Your Right To Deadpool
I could be standing behind the glass-front counter at my retail comic shop job, or behind the formica circulation desk the library where I serve as assistant manager, young adult services coordinator, and overseer of graphic novel collection development, but the parent will always be the same: looking at their phone, occasionally glancing over the…
My Week in Comics Events, Part 1: (Super)Hero with 1000 Faces
Last week Monday, I attended the (Super)Hero with 1000 Faces event at the British Library. The event was associated with the Library’s Comics Unmasked exhibit, which focuses on themes of rebellion and anarchy in British comics. The lineup was a mix of academics and creative professionals: Drs. Sarah Zaidan and Will Brooker in the first…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Creepy Webcomics Bonanza!
Web-Comic Broodhollow Blends the Cute and the Creepy Larry Cruz at Robot 6 looks at Kris Staub’s webcomic Broodhollow which manages to be both adorable and one of the scariest comics being published right now. The first complete chapter of this webcomic is up here to catch up on the series and follow along with the on-going…
Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Days of Future Past Starring Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender Directed by Bryan Singer PG-13 20th Century Fox “We need you to hope again,” Professor X tells his younger self in a psychic pep talk across time and space. But he may as well have been talking to an audience fatigued…
Pole Dancing Adventures’ author talks about sexuality, prejudice and comics
Pole Dancing Adventures is a webcomic by Leen Isabel. It is a fun and light read that shares some straight-from-life situations related to pole dance. The updates are generally one or two panels, and vary from instructional, to motivational to comical. You can see that Leen is in love with her art. This makes the…
Where Do We Stand? April Comic Sales
Each month, Diamond Comics Distributors releases data on the top selling products from single issue comics to graphic novels and trade paperbacks to toys. So far this year, the trend shows the top single issue comic sales heavy with superhero stories fromMarvel and DC, but diversity is growing in the trade paperback and graphic novel…
News & Things: Raptastic
Musical Sex Criminals Celebrate sex positivity with Rapper Adam WarRock’s latest track “The Quiet,” an homage to Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Not surprisingly, the track is NSFW. Star Wars cast announced; excitement and criticism follow Yesterday’s announcement of the cast for Star Wars Episode VII spread through the internet like wildfire,…
Top Five: Sexy Witch Books (NSFW)
Supernatural erotica has been as big as a great huge cock in publishing recently, and I’ve got no problem with that. Personally, though, I favour the romantic b-plot — and the active protagonist. If I’m reading heterosexual romance, and I usually am, I need the woman to retain a sense of self and some assurance of agency….
A Superior Spider-Man Retrospective
Full disclosure. I am, now, have always been, and will always be a Spider-Man fangirl. I saw the 1966 Spider-Man cartoon when I was four, fell in love instantly, and have never looked back. I hung on through the Clone Saga and gritted my teeth through One More Day. Peter Parker has always been my…
2014 Hugo Award Finalists Announced
On Saturday, April 19, during a livestream event hosted by Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon”) announced the finalists for this year’s Hugo Awards. The number of nomination ballots received this year hit a new response record. Nominations were held earlier this year, and members of the 2013, 2014, and/or 2015 Worldcons…