YouTube’s “Sunshine Girl” Heads to Bookstores Paige McKenzie has announced that her fledgling webseries, “The Haunting of Sunshine Girl” will be turned into a series of YA novels by Weinstein Books, and the first book was released earlier this week. She’s not the only YouTube star to venture into the publishing world: Jenn McAllister (a.k.a JennxPenn)…
Rebecca Mock On Artist’s Rights and Diplo Offering “Credit”
Back in February, Diplo used an original GIF by illustrator Rebecca Mock as background art in promoting his music. Staff writer Jo Fu wrote about the incident and his misogynistic response to the fallout. Here, she speaks with Mock about how artists can protect themselves and their work.
Cool Games of April: Staff Picks
State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition Developer: Undead Labs Publisher: Microsoft Studios Xbox One April 28, 2015 I love zombies. I know the market has been a bit flooded recently with zombie…stuff, but State of Decay did it right. You play a whole team of people, all of whom live together in a safe…
The Wicked, The Divine and The Mythology: Part 4 — Sakhmet and Dionysus
This series intends to briefly point towards the original mythological material, compare it to the comic adaptation of it (The Wicked + The Divine), and speculate about possible meanings and foreshadowing by using a bit of background knowledge. It contains light spoilers about character development, but not about the plot.
I Didn’t Know Bruce: Bruce Lee at the Wing Luke Museum
I have a confession to make. In spite of being relatively well-rounded in other areas of nerdom (video game RPGs, tabletop games, anime and manga, sci-fi and fantasy novels, and 80s movies), there is one area in which I have fallen resoundingly flat. I hope my friends will still speak to me after reading this….
WWAC Warriors: Mama Said Knock You Out
Warriors, I really, really wanted to open this follow-up post with a triumphant I WON!!, and we could all celebrate our various accomplishments with a round of metaphorical champagne and dim sum. (Yeah, my cravings got pretty eclectic in the last week.) But I didn’t win. Technically, I didn’t lose, either. When the referee gathered…
Get Your Game on Wednesday: April Fools Beware
Hello, my lovelies! Today is a fun day to be a gamer or at least a game appreciator! The internet is full of fun goodies like Google Map’s Pacman, PlayStation Flow, or ThinkGeek’s Steam Machine. If you find fun ones, please please please share them in comments. Now on to this week’s news! After years…
A Modern Day Indiana Jane: Kristi Charish’s Owl and the Japanese Circus
Owl and the Japanese Circus is the start of a brand new urban fantasy adventure series by debut author Kristi Charish. It’s about a young woman named Alix Hiboux a.k.a Owl. Alix is a former student of archaeology who now “acquires” antiquities for private collectors for the right price. She’s tough, resourceful, a little hot…
Marvel’s Luke Cage Netflix Show Has Found Its Showrunner/Writer
We now have a showrunner and writer for Marvel’s Luke Cage, the third show of Netflix’s four series order. Who is this individual? Here are some resume bulletpoints: Started off as a journalist before writing the script for the rap biopic Notorious in 2009 Was a supervising producer and writer on the award winning show Southland (his writing earned him a 2013 NAACP Image…
Review: Red Sonja #15
Red Sonja #15 Gail Simone (w) Walter Geovanni (a), Jenny Frisson (c) Dynamite March 25, 2015 In issue #14, Red Sonja was cursed with the inability to forgive. In this issue, we find out what the implications of this are for Red Sonja.
Cool Comics of April: Staff Picks
No Mercy Alex de Campi, Carla Speed Mcneil, Jenn Manley Lee Image Comics April 1, 2015 I’m pushing out of my comfort zone and looking for new series from a variety of publishers. For April I’m going to give No Mercy #1 a try. The section of the blurb that pulled at me reads “But after…
Say What? Minecraft as a Teaching Tool for Homeschoolers
At some point about a year ago, a friend’s son introduced our eight-year-old to Minecraft on iPad. The game appeared harmless enough, and to be truthful, I had a parenting fail moment because I didn’t even research the game settings and environment before allowing her to dive in. In a very short time, my daughter…
