One of the most innovative and beautiful comics of the past year has been Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s Ody-C (Image Comics): a gender-swapped, psychedelic revisiting of the Odyssey in space — although, of course, it’s also much more than that. I talked to Christian Ward about reinterpreting myth, divine psychedelia, and the individuality of…
Awesome Webcomics of April: Staff Picks
Hotblood Toril Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. NSFW The Wild West with centaurs. Need I say more? Ok, I will. James Rook, a Civil War veteran with limited options, and Asa Langley, a steel icon, get into wild shenanigans in the year of 1871. There’s violence, sex, profanity, revised American history,…
Weekend Review 03/28/2015
Girls with Slingshots, lasagna, Jem, bippity boppity boo, Batgirl, and so much more…
Kickstarter of the Week: Love in All Forms
All-ages queer content is important. Unfortunately, the queer community as a whole is severely underrepresented in the media, and queer kids and young adults are practically nonexistent. While it’s certainly a problem when adults don’t see themselves accurately represented in film, TV, and literature, this same deficiency can cause lasting damage to one’s sexual health…
The DC Daily Planet: Killer Croc Fans, Rejoice!
Catie here, filling in for Laura this week! The DC news-sphere is pretty Bat-heavy this week…which means it’s probably not too different from most DC news weeks! We now have solid, irrefutable proof that DC has reached its “grim and gritty” apex and is starting to emerge on the other side…there are now official adorably…
The Killing Joke: Starring Barbara Gordon
Content warning: You can guess, really. The Killing Joke is considered one of the best comic stories of all time. One of the greatest Batman storylines to ever be printed. It has Joker at his worst, Gordon at his most vulnerable, and Batman at his breaking point. The book is most remembered for its graphic content,…
I Want To Believe: A Dialogue About Media, Narrative, Nostalgia, and The X-Files
The X-Files: Season 10, Vol. 1 Joe Harris (W) Carlos Valenzuela (A) IDW December 31, 2013
Review: Red Sonja: Vulture’s Circle #3
Red Sonja: Vulture’s Circle #3 Nancy A. Collins, Luke Lieberman (w) Fritz Casas (a) Jay Anacleto, Walter Geovani, Lucio Parrillo (c) Dynamite March 18, 2015 After Red Sonja’s School for Wayward Warrior Girls burned down in issue #2, Red Sonja and her crew regroup and replan. Meanwhile, Red Sonja gets back in touch with her…
Cook Your Comics: Monitor Duty Lasagna
Monitor duty: it’s the superhero team job for which I am best suited, what with my lack of superpowers or fighting skills. I’m good at staring at screens for long periods of time, occasionally pointing at something and saying, “Hey, we need to fix that!” A big part of my job is writing and editing…
Movies That Shaped Me: Wrong Turn 5 Bloodlines
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines Director: Declan O’Brien Produced by: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth Written by: Declan O’Brien Based on characters by: Alan McElroy Content Warning: Discussion of Violence, Rape, Murder, and mentions of Gore Spoiler Warning: Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines For my contribution to our series Movies that Shaped Me, my first thought was a movie…
The Thursday Book Beat: Who Wants Some Good, Clean Reading?
Toronto Public Library’s Sell Books Program Has Been Scraped The program was supposed to decrease the wait time for held books by increasing the number of copies while also getting books for cheap ($5) in this time of budget uncertainty, but it seems like more money was spent than the TPL realized. The library bought…
What’s Loud, Proud, and Somehow Invisible? Diversity At The Creative Level
A couple of years ago, I read an interesting article about a young woman moved to tears by a panel discussion on “Women Who Kick Ass” at the San Diego Comic-Con. While waiting in line for hours to see the panel, our narrator had the misfortune of standing behind a few white dudes who continuously made…
