Howdy Wednesday readers! I hope your week is cruising along. If you’re lucky enough to live in the Columbus, Ohio area, remember that this weekend is the Origins Game Fair. Get out and play some games! Women’s National Teams included EA SPORTS FIFA 16 For the first time ever, 12 Women’s National Teams will…
X-RAY SPOTTED: XCOM 2 Announced
The glorious relaunch of X-COM: UFO Defense, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, was easily one of the most well-regarded games of 2012. An isometric grid-based tactical game initially released on PC and consoles, the player was the commanding officer of Earth’s last line of defense against an invading alien army with sinister designs on the planet and…
Fail Better: Fake Geek Girls BE YOU
When I was younger, I bought into the Fake Geek Girl thing pretty hard. I didn’t know anybody who observably read comics, nobody at all, and to get into my local comic shop I had to take this journey: Down an alley of dilapidated commerce, turn right, into another small alley where you can see…
On Writing Women’s Lives: Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, and Jill Soloway in Discussion
A couple of weeks ago I went to the Jewish Contemporary Museum in San Francisco to hear a roundtable discussion between three terrific women writers: Michelle Tea (Rent Girl, Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir; co-creator of the performance art collective Sister Spit), Eileen Myles (Not Me, Chelsea Girls, Inferno) and Jill Soloway (creator of new…
Human Rights in Mexico: Graphic Novelized
A new graphic nonfiction series is being released by Front Line Defenders (a group devoted to combating violence against human right advocates worldwide). The series debut is La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico and was released by Verso Books on May 29th of this year. Written and illustrated by…
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #3 or Sabrina’s Purity4Satan Campaign
A conversation between Claire and Ginnis on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #3 Archie Horror Script: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Art: Robert Hack, Jack Morelli Cover: Robert Hack Lettering: Jack Morelli Warning: Contains Spoilers for Sabrina #3
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Fantagraphics Announces Hip-Hop Family Tree Monthly Series
More comic adaptations are coming! There may one day be an Incredible Indie Tuesday column that doesn’t feature news of some comic or another getting adapted to another medium, but it clearly ain’t this week. Check out WWAC’s thoughts on the upcoming The Wicked and the Divine tv adaptation and the recent announcement that Lumberjanes may be brought to the big…
Con Diary: Lawgiver Mark II was Dreddfully Impressive
Being a Dreddhead can get lonely sometimes. When you’ve just read the most outlandish comic of all time but you have no one to enthuse to, you start to look further and further afield for like-minded fans. In my case, my search led me all the way to the Southwest of England — specifically, to…
Disney, Dreamwave, IDW, and Toys- An Interview with Josh Perez
Hello, everyone! Rachel Stevens here again with yet another interview with a member of the IDW Transformers creative team, this time with colorist Josh Perez.
Reading Diaries: Un-Pretty, No-Make-Up Emotions
Once a month the members of Women Write About Comics get together to chat about what they’ve been reading. Here’s what we liked (and what we didn’t).
Hungry for Definition: xxxHolic’s Addiction to Food
xxxHolic Omnibus editions vols. 1–5 CLAMP (mangaka studio); William Flanagan (adaptation and translation); Dana Hayward (letters) Kodansha 2014–2015 (first published 2003–2009) Note: this essay contains some light spoilers; review copies were provided by Kodansha. Watanuki Kimihiro sees spirits. Even worse, they want to eat him, and so they chase him. All the time. Big, scary,…
This House is Boring: Poltergeist 2015 Reviewed
Poltergeist (2015) Director: Gil Kenan Writers: David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay), Steven Spielberg (story) Stars: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements Remakes are hard. Especially when you tackle a classic. But when I saw that Sam Raimi was a producer for the Poltergeist remake, I had, at least, a little hope that maybe, just maybe the remake…
