It’s been a rollercoaster week of book news, everyone, and one of the lowest points has been the death of beloved American author Harper Lee. Few can deny the influence that To Kill a Mockingbird has had on modern American society, and the ways in which 2016 isn’t that much different from 1960s Alabama still…
Zine Review: The Lettuce Girl
The Lettuce Girl Sophia Wiedeman If you’re belatedly looking for a sweet, Valentine’s Day appropriate story, I do not recommend Rapunzel. I recently cracked open my collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales to reread the tale, and realized that Rapunzel’s meeting with the prince is far from romantic. When he proposes, she gives him the once over and thinks,…
Jem and The Holograms: Valentine’s Day Special – A Roundtable Review
Jem and The Holograms: Valentine’s Day Special 2016 Kelly Thompson (writer), Jen Bartel (artist), Paul Reinwand (colors), Shawn Lee (letters), Sara Richard and Jen Bartel (cover artists) IDW February 10, 2016 Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by the publisher. Love is in the air! And … in the water? When Kimber accidentally douses the…
Horror vs. Crime: We Talk Revival with Tim Seeley and Mike Norton
Issue 36# and a new arc of Tim Seeley and Mike Norton’s creator-owned comic Revival dropped last week. Revival centers around the rural town of Wausau, Wisconsin where the recently deceased have came back to life. The comic explores the aftermath of this inexplicable event on the living and the dead. Teetering on the genres of…
Get Your Game On Wednesday: Deadpool
Howdy, gaming lovelies! How is everyone feeling this week? Give yourself a five-minute break and check out this week’s gaming news. Can’t get enough of the Deadpool movie? Perhaps it’s time to dust off your copy of the 2013 PS4 Deadpool video game. Although the game originally met tepid reviews, after the success of…
Southern Hip-Hop Meet Gymnastics: On Diversity in Gymnastics
I really can’t stand sports for the most part, but the sports I do like are the so-called “girly” ones: figure skating, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and dancesport. Like my beloved ballet, they display grace and power, usually with sequins and glitter. In my mind, it can’t get better than that. I am all about…
Interview: Tommy Siegel of Jukebox the Ghost Q&A
If you like your indie rock on the up-beat, apocalyptic, and with a piano, then Jukebox the Ghost is probably the band for you. The trio recently kicked off their latest American tour, starting in DC. They’re on the up-and-up, having just completed a successful Kickstarter to fund a live album, and releasing a new music video for…
The Fear of a Cage: ReReading Eowyn
There was a time when I would re-read The Lord of the Rings every year, usually in the summer or at Christmas. I’ve probably read the series seven or eight times, more than I’ve read any other book. Nostalgia plays a huge part in my multiple readings. It was one of the first books series…
Milestone Media’s Jason Jones Scott Shares a Story of Racial Profiling
It’s February: Black History Month, Martin Luther King Day, #BlackComicsMonth, and Dwayne McDuffie’s birthday all rolled into one month. An entire month meant to be a showcase of black pride in the US, celebrating and uplifting the voices, and creations of black people, highlighting the history that is whitewashed away in an attempt to minimize it. In…
Dice Vice: Imma Take ALLLLL the Camels with Jaipur
This month’s game is a great little two-player game called Jaipur. The game’s introduction states that the aim is to try and become the “Maharaja’s personal trader by being richer than your opponent at the end of each week.” You spend three weeks, or rounds, collecting and selling goods like diamonds, gold, silver, cloth, spices,…
Drink Your Comics: In the Fallout 4 Wasteland
Like so many other mainstream gamers, I have been spending all of my time playing Fallout 4. There is just so much to do in this game. My son is missing still, but I’ve joined many factions, built ten communes, and romanced a journalist. For this month’s Drink Your Comics Games I will take you to…
Love, War, and Other Frightful Creatures: Past the Last Mountain
Past the Last Mountain Louie Joyce (Art and Colors), Paul Allor (Words), Gannon Beck (Layouts), Andy Schmidt (Consulting Editor) CE Digital January 13, 2016 Disclaimer: WWAC received review copies of all four issues of Past the Last Mountain from Paul Allor. On Free Comic Book Day in 2014, Paul Allor and Thomas Boatwright released a comic through Th3rd World…