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Mighty Marvel Monday! This Week’s Theme: Marvel + Women
Another Monday, another edition of Mighty Marvel Monday! All (some) of the Marvel-related news (links) from the last week (or so) fit to print (post electronically). Today’s theme: Marvel and Women. As is typical of Marvel, this week Marvel took a giant step forward, and another giant step backwards. Let’s go with the good news…
Sorry Barbie But Ghouls Really Do Rule
When I was young, I had a significant Barbie collection filled with blond and blue eyed Day and Night Barbie, Skipper, Dallas Barbie, and many others. I had a camper, a horse, a pool set, and I played with them like any typical girl would because what else was I supposed to do? My mom…
I’m Not Charlie, and Neither are You. So Who ARE You? Where’s Your Stand?
Using cartooning to provoke and punish people makes cartooning an instrument of cruelty. It’s easy to say that nothing can devalue or tarnish a form of art or a medium, but it’s harder to sit down your human emotions and sense of connection and tell it that a scene isn’t souring and widely dangerous. Headlines…
Gods Among Us: The Wicked and the Divine is Being Adapted for Television
Back in February, Matt Fraction (Sex Criminals, ODY-C) and Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Bitch Planet) announced that their production company, Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, had signed a two year deal with Universal TV to adapt some of their favourite comic books for the small screen. Sex Criminals, Fraction’s Eisner Award- and Harvey Award-winning comic, which…
Review: Lady Killer #5
Lady Killer #5 Joelle Jones & Jamie S. Rich (writers), Joelle Jones (artist), Laura Allred (colors), Crank! (letters) Dark Horse May 13, 2015 (This review contains spoilers.)
#ToyLikeMe and the Angelica Doll: A Push for Representation in Toys
Representation is such a simple concept: you want to be able to see yourself in many different forms and media. It’s idea that we often think about in relation to movies, books, and comics, but not always in toys. One community of parents and one very driven mom are trying bring children with disabilities and…
Lumberjanes Big Screen Adaptation in the Works
The success of the Lumberjanes is going strong. Following hot on the heels of their Eisner nominations for Best New Series and Best Publication for Teens, comes word that 20th Century Fox has found someone to write a live-action movie adaption. According to the folks at The Wrap, Will Widger has been tasked with adapting…
Another Day, Another Whitewash: Tilda Swinton in Talks with Marvel to Play Asian Character in Dr. Strange
The Hollywood Reporter has reported (heh) that Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer, Trainwreck) is in talks with Marvel to play the Ancient One in the upcoming Dr. Strange film. It appears that if there’s one thing Hollywood is really good at, it’s whitewashing canonical characters of color from their adapted material. In the comics, The Ancient One is…
The End of The Nib…or is it?
The Nib, which has garnered a reputation as one of the best sites for comics, is no more. Sort of. The past few days have been filled with despair and mourning, and speculation about its future. Yesterday, The Beat published an article that neatly presented what we knew and when we knew it, as well as…
Kickstarter of the Week: Datura: Wearable Art Armor
Be the beautiful bad-ass warrior you’ve always dreamed you could be with this week’s Kickstarter of the Week. No cosplay or sword required. On the campaign page for Datura: Wearable Art Armor Kickstarter, artist Sam Guay talks about the concept: ““Datura” is one of my illustrations, born from mythic symbols and my love of decorative armor. I’ve…
More Princeless Power with Raven: The Pirate Princess
Proving you don’t always need a prince to save the princess, the acclaimed Princeless series spins off a new tale. Action Lab Entertainment has teamed up with Princeless creator Jeremy Whitley for a new spin off series debuting this July, Princeless: Raven, the Pirate Princess. The series follows Raven Xingtao, a princess who appears to be…