Hello all! One thing before we get started today: this is my last DC Daily Planet post for the near future! I’ve had some exciting opportunities come up that I need to devote some time to — but fear not! I’ll (hopefully) be back and bringing you the very soap box laden news in no…
New Mutants Movie: Where’s the Karma? #whitewashedOUT
Earlier this month, the hashtag #whitewashedOUT blew up on Twitter, exclaiming the lack of roles and representation of Asian people in mainstream Western media. This came after the release of an image of Scarlett Johansson in the Ghost in the Shell live action movie and Tilda Swinton as a white Ancient One in the Doctor Strange…
Searching for Glendower: Reflecting on The Raven Cycle
In 2012 Scholastic took the Young Adult book world by storm when they published The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, the first book in the new Raven Cycle series. It stared a young girl named Blue Sargent, who lives with her aunts, all of whom are clairvoyant, in a small town. Blue’s life may be unconventional…
Interview with Farel Dalrymple, Creator of Pop Gun War: Gift
For the most part, I prefer my comics fast and hard-hitting: Good defeating evil in physical combat or gruff antiheroes solving their problems by shooting them in the face. There’s nothing like that vicarious adrenal spike I feel when the Punisher, bleeding from shrapnel wounds that would kill anyone who wasn’t the Punisher, rounds a corner and opens…
The Thursday Book Beat: Nancy Drew Series Deemed “Too Female” for CBS’s Fall Lineup
Welcome back to another week of book news, dear readers! We’re headed towards a long weekend here in Canada, and I’m looking forward to catching up on my reading. Happily, I’ll be bumping up Han Kang’s book The Vegetarian on my TBR to celebrate her winning the Man Booker International Prize! She is the first…
Review: Let Trello Run Your Life
I have been trying to figure out the best way to keep my life organized for years. I tried Evernote and Remember the Milk when they came out. I have several day planners that were well used until about April. I’ve added endless, never completed items to the little pop-up Tasks section in Gmail. I have…
Get Your Game on Wednesday: Gen Con Gender Wins
Happy Wednesday, gaming lovelies! Fresh off my weekend at the fabulous inaugural Granite Game Summit, I’m here to report on all the week’s news. So let’s get to it! Equal gender representation for Gen Con 2016’s Industry Insiders Welcome to the future, gaming friends! Last week, Gen Con, one of the oldest and largest tabletop…
Living Dead Boy: Jason Todd vs. The Culture That Killed (And Resurrected) Him
Here’s the thing: Robin was never intended to be a legacy character. There were no real reasons to assume or suspect that Dick Grayson, the original Robin, was going to give up the mantle. Sure, as Dick progressed in age, thanks to some very specific cultural anxieties, there were reasons to assume that he might…
TCAF 2016: Festival Diary
I love the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) and I’ve gone every year since 2013. The 2016 festival was fantastic and I’m still recovering from the exciting things that went down. TCAF is a free event that focuses on independent comics and creators with guests from not only Canada but all over the world. Its primary location is in…
The Misrepresentation of Daredevil’s Elektra
Just after the title sequence, and eleven minutes into episode nine, Elektra Natchios is cleaning up the previous episode’s mess: Matt Murdoch gets shot with a poisoned arrow and Elektra slits the throat of a young ninja. She saves Matt’s life using the same concoction that Stick used to save hers and brings in what…
2014 Hugos Versus 2015 Sad Puppies: What Could Have Been, Part 2
In the previous post in this series, I looked at the short stories and novelettes that were in the running for the 2015 Hugo Awards and may have reached the final ballot had the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies campaigns not taken place. Now, for the final post, I shall look at the candidates for…
Comics Academe: Teaching Ms. Marvel Part 2
This is part two of my account of teaching G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel to honor students at a large southern university. Part one can be found here.
