Mutanimals is a rousing story about outsiders; mutants, freaks and monsters coming together to fight for their right to survive. Paul Allor coalesced a hokey team of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spin-off characters into a band of renegade freedom fighters whose story is riveting from the first page of this miniseries to the last….
Review: Toil & Trouble #1
Toil & Trouble #1 Mairghread Scott (words), Kelly and Nichole Matthews (art), Warren Montgomery (letters) Kyla Vanderklugt (main cover) Sonny Liew (10 year Boom Anniversary cover) Haemi Jang (variant cover) Archaia/BOOM September 9, 2015
The Dusty Dead: A Narrative Personality Quiz
Welcome to the second installation of An Adventure in Small Games (you can read the first one here), a monthly series focused on games that cost less than $20, ideally less than $10. In this series, Eve Golden Woods will focus on indie games and what they have to offer the world of gaming. This month Eve focuses on…
The Thursday Book Beat: Lillith’s Brood to Land on TV Screens
New Zealand sets interim ban on YA novel Into the River A rare interim book ban has been carried out in New Zealand over Ted Dawe’s Into the River over complaints that the book is too explicit in its descriptions of sex and drug use. The ban was issued by the Film and Literature Board…
Books that Shaped Me: The Bell Jar: Circumventing the Jar, Circling the Bell
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Harper Perennial Modern Classic 1971 I couldn’t tell you the year I read The Bell Jar, I couldn’t tell you how old I was, nor the season. But I could tell you what I was wearing the first time I opened the pages and fell deeply in love with Sylvia…
Racism in 2000AD: It’s Judgement Time
Recently, I caught up on a couple of months’ worth of 2000AD. I read Judge Dredd (of course), some strips that were not Judge Dredd, but which I enjoyed anyway, Strontium Dog: The Stix Fix, and the 2015 Summer Special. I was hoping to enjoy these, too.
In Defense of the Bad Boy
Ah, the Bad Boy. He gets a lot of traction in our fictional media. He is alluring on account of his badness, and of course, incredibly good looking. In many cases, he is thrown into a love triangle with a female protagonist where she must decide between The Bad Boy and The Good Guy. We know…
Terra Mystica: This Game is Intense
Ladies and bros, in the last column of Dice Vice, I was all, “Games are fun! It’s a nice way to challenge yourself with new skills! Here’s a game and how to play it! RAINBOWS!!!” This is not that column today. Today’s column is about how sometimes our hobbies and the fun things we like…
Get Your Game on Wednesday
Howdy, gaming lovelies! Congratulations on making it to Wednesday. Glitter and sparkles for everyone! This week in gaming news we have violent death for cute critters, Dwayne Johnson making everything better, an interview with a transgender game designer, and more! Cute Things Dying Violently is out For those who love the twisted humor of The Book…
Why Having Your Comics Bound Will Save You Space (And Sanity)
Longtime comic book collectors have many of the same passions and struggles, but the most common of shared experiences? The woes of storage.
Flogged with Love: Stjepan Sejic’s Sunstone
Sunstone Vols. 2 & 3 Story and art by Stjepan Sejic Top Cow Productions / Image Comics Volume 2: April 29, 2015; Volume 3: September 19, 2015 My question when I hit the third volume of any graphic novel series is: will this be the last one I read? The first volume is an introduction and…
Fresh Romance Is the Romance Zine of Your Dreams
Fresh Romance, the romantic comics zine from Rosy Press, is a real treat to read. It feels like meeting your best friend. You’ll catch yourself thinking, I’ve been looking for you everywhere. I’m so glad I found you!
