Valentine’s week features our WWAC Date Night, as well as lots of other romance-y goodness (and other stuff too). On Monday… WWAC talks make up and femininity. Ardo reviews Gotham Academy #4. Liz explores the new comic reading app, Comique. Mighty Marvel Monday returns mightily! Guest author Lindsay discovers the creepy side of otome. Ardo explains…
Kickstarter of the Week: Geek Loves Punk
A lesbian geek and her best friends try to figure out their lives and their relationships in the sweet comedy, Geek Loves Punk. In the Geek Loves Punk Kickstarter, filmmaker Julie Kerr expands the Geek Loves Punk story from her original short film to a full length feature. The story focuses on Elizabeth, a lesbian…
Show Your Love: Vote for Some Awesome Games
February: the month of love. Also, the second month of 2015. Now that we’ve got some distance from the wacky and wonderful (sometimes!) year that was 2014, it’s time to look back and show some love for comics creators and creations that stood out. Yup, it’s time for the Awesome Awards 2014: Games Edition! The…
Show Your Love: Vote for Some Awesome Books
February: the month of love. Also, the second month of 2015. Now that we’ve got some distance from the wacky and wonderful (sometimes!) year that was 2014, it’s time to look back and show some love for comics creators and creations that stood out. Yup, it’s time for the Awesome Awards 2014: Books Edition! The…
The DC Daily Planet: Avoid Black Cats
…or don’t. I own one, and thus far he hasn’t brought me any especially bad luck, even on Fridays the 13th. Most of the DC news this week has been more speculation than anything else: everyone’s talking about the post-CONVERGENCE breakaway from the New 52, but there are a few other items of note… For…
Con Season Survival Guide
Con season is already underway for many of us, and while surviving a con may not be as stressful as surviving a zombie apocalypse, they’re pretty damn close. So, I polled our amazing staff and contributors, who are seasoned con pros, mind you, to share their tips for surviving con season.
Show Your Love: Vote for Some Awesome Comics
February: the month of love. Also, the second month of 2015. Now that we’ve got some distance from the wacky and wonderful (sometimes!) year that was 2014, it’s time to look back and show some love for comics creators and creations that stood out. Yup, it’s time for the Awesome Awards 2014: Comics Edition! The…
Suck My Neck: Date Night With WWAC
Character: Cassidy, from Preacher Date activities: Dinner and a gig Decisions: Terrible Dinner is burgers at a greasy diner (the best place in New York, he says, and he’s lived long enough to know). He gets a double, rarer than rare—I can see the blood dripping down his chin. With someone like him, dinner is…
[TW] Are You Fearful: The Subject by Rachel Masilamani
Trigger warning: Discussion of chronic and post-partum depression. The second part of Rachel Masilamani’s NON-PARTUM, a series of comics about her journey with fertility, “The Subject,” is about access to care. The first part, “Plan B-2o0,” which I reviewed here, is about choice, fertility, and above all, perspective. This one digs into equally thorny territory: physical…
CW’s The Flash & Due Process: Do Supervillains Have The Right To An Attorney?
CW’s The Flash is one of the most popular debuts of the 2014-2015 television season, which owes a lot to the fact that it’s a DC superhero property that’s unabashedly fun and self-aware. Of course, it would be. You have villains like Captain Cold, Rainbow Raider, and Pied Piper up against a superhero dressed in…
Heroes Reborn: Down to The Wire
NBC premiered its tiny fifteen second teaser during the Super Bowl for its revival series Heroes Reborn, a variation on its once-lauded, but mostly lamented series Heroes. The original series flew like a rocket, but sadly crashed at the end like a badly damaged rocket. Wendy and Jamie, who discussed this about one year ago…
Swallowing Your Privilege: Writing and Making a Living
Privilege is a hard pill to swallow, especially growing up in the mythos of Puritanical-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-idle-hands-are-the-devil’s-plaything-etc. America. But, like the giant antibiotics I’m taking right now for an upper respiratory infection, you have to swallow those enormous pills, all of them. Okay, the metaphor may be clumsy, but I keep getting those damn horse pills lodged…