Love it or hate it Civil War is on the horizon. And what better way to prepare for Captain America on the big screen than to comb through the WWAC archives? We have comic reviews and opinions galore. Enjoy!
Shinbun Saturday: Japanese Publisher Kadokawa Moves into the North American Market
Hi everyone! Welcome to another edition of Shinbun Saturday, your weekly round-up of the latest news in the manga world. I could talk about the biggest headlines, which deal with the most recent round of Hollywood whitewashing but ugh, speaking as an Asian woman, I’m so tired of talking about it. It happens again and…
Orphan Black: Back to the Beginning – 3 Takes on the Season 4 Premiere
Orphan Black returns for season four by taking viewers to a place we did not expect: the past. The episode opened by throwing us right into the mystery that started it all, but from a whole new angle and through the eyes of a brand new clone, and the clone who started us down this rabbit…
Accessibility and Cons: If Comics Are For Everyone, Can Everybody Reach Them?
Last time we talked, I discussed my own work as a comics creator and the ways in which I’ve worked to create my own disability representation in comics. This month, I want to delve into an issue that is broader in scope, but in many ways just as vital: accessibility at comic conventions. It’s con…
Entering the KDrama Rabbit Hole: Dramaworld Brings Fandom Into the Story
Ever wondered what it might be like to star in a Korean drama? Global TV site Viki is set to launch a new show tonight that hopes to give viewers exactly that experience: Dramaworld is a 10-episode series promising to bring casual and diehard KDrama fans into the stories that they love.
DC Daily Planet: Young Animal! Challenges! ECCC!
And we’re back after an accidental week off thanks to some planning miscalculations on my part. This past weekend was Emerald City Comic Con and while the DC news outpouring was pretty light compared to Wondercon, there’s still a pretty decent list of things to be covered. Let’s jump right in. Young Animal, a new…
From Haute Cuisine to the Guillotine: Class in Hannibal
Bryan Fuller’s cancelled drama Hannibal is nominally billed as being about the cannibal Hannibal Lecter. It also tackles a number of weighty themes, such as love, the nature of evil, and even the subtle ways in which people may be divided by forces both moral and class-related.
Residential Schools & Fiction: Black Apple Review
Black Apple Joan Crate Simon & Schuster Canada March 1st, 2016 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Torn from her home and delivered to St. Mark’s Residential School for Girls by government decree, young Rose Marie finds herself in an alien universe where nothing of her previous…
A Good Name Will Shine Forever: All-New Wolverine, Sisters Arc Review
In an interview given before All-New Wolverine was released, writer Tom Taylor said that, “if we’ve done our job right, all of our readers will be just as lost.” So to make sure everyone isn’t totally lost, let’s do a quick, simple review of who Laura Kinney – known as X-23, and the new Wolverine….
The Thursday Book Beat: Newly Discovered Shakespeare First Folio Rocks the Literary World
Hey there readers, your friendly neighborhood Angel here, back from a bookish weekend in New York City! I attended the 2016 Kweli Children’s Book Writers Conference this past Saturday, and was surrounded by amazing writers and illustrators of colour who are bound to do amazing things for kidlit. Here’s hoping we get to see some…
That Dr. Strange Trailer Sure Is Awful
The Dr. Strange trailer. So… it’s here. We hated it. Here’s why: Megan Purdy: This seems like a trailer for four movies in one: The Matrix, Inception, Eat Pray Love and a watery wuxia ripoff for white America. It’s visually confused and so derivative that it makes no argument for its own existence. It relies…
Good Girls Like Gambit
First, Fox delayed the planned Channing Tatum Gambit movie; now it looks like it won’t be made at all. Fox seems so impressed by Deadpool‘s monster box office that its interests have shifted: a Deadpool franchise looks like a sure winner, a Channing Tatum-led Gambit solo film like more of risk. But there are enough…