This is a four part series looking at the representation of race on television both in terms of how far we’ve come and what we have yet to accomplish. What Is Whitewashing and Why Should We Care? Whitewashing is what we call it when characters who are originally non-white (people of colour) are recast or rebooted as white….
November Staff Picks: Comics
Buffy: Season 10, Vol. 1 – I Wish Christos Gage (w), Rebekah Isaacs (a) Dark Horse November 25, 2014 As a full-fledged Buffy fangirl, I will probably read these for as long as they are around — though I do wait for them to come out in trade. Anyway, magic is back, and Buffy and…
Game Review: Remember Me is Not to be Forgotten
Meet Nilin. She is the star of DONTNOD’s 2013 video game Remember Me, but you may never have gotten to meet her if DONTNOD had conformed to the close-minded vision of some major gaming companies. The fact that Nilin was a woman meant that when the game was shown to potential publishers, many were discouraged…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: All Interviews, All the Time
News has been scant lately (probably due to a Halloween hang-over), so, instead, let’s give creators the chance to talk in a rapid-fire, all-interview news post! First up, Artist Jillian Tamaki Talks About This One Summer, the award-winning graphic novel that came out this summer. I am kicking myself for not reading this yet, especially after seeing…
The Wicked, The Divine, and The Mythology—Part 3: Baal and Inanna
This series intends to briefly point towards the original mythological material, compare it to the Gillen and McKelvie comic adaptation of it (The Wicked and The Divine), and speculate about possible meanings and foreshadowing by using a bit of background knowledge. Part 1: Amaterasu and Lucifer Part 2: The Morrigan and Baphomet The end of the first…
Concrete Park and Art: Puryear Purloins Painters’ Perfections
It was the cover that caught me. Concrete Park: You Send Me Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander Dark Horse Comics October 1st, 2014 Talking to Bleeding Cool about his “artist’s journey,” Tony Puryear, illustrator and co-writer of Concrete Park, said: I majored in art at Brown [University], loving Gauguin but doing very indulgent, Morris Louis-inspired color field paintings….
I’m Loving: Harlequin Manga Adaptation Previews
I’m loving — I mean I am LOVING — the existence of Harlequin Josei manga. Good grief! I’m loving it with all the passion and fire of a green-eyed shipping magnate! I’m trembling with anger like a handsome golden-eyed playboy at the thought of his brother’s beautiful ex-wife with a common teacher and at the thought of…
Calling All WWACgamers
The gaming industry has expanded to include a wide variety of games well beyond the PC and console titles that have dominated the industry for so long. Mobile applications and social media games are now housed under the same umbrella as games like Call of Duty and Dragon Age, but some of the more elitist…
November Staff Picks: Games
Far Cry 4 Ubisoft Montreal Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Far Cry 2 was the reason I learned to build desktop computers. I wanted to play it on a machine that could handle how incredibly beautiful these games are at their maximum settings. The Far Cry franchise is known for its first-person shooter…
Loot Crate: The Vicarious Unboxing
My newest obsession is Funko’s Pop! collection of adorably geeky vinyl toys that now adorn my bookshelf. In order to curb my buy-all-the-things desires, I decided to limit myself to one representative from each of my favourite fandoms. My collection has already blossomed to include Panthro from Thundercats, Garrus Vakarian from Mass Effect, Brienne of…
More than Meets the Ear- A Soundtrack for IDW’s Transformers
Hello there, ladies, gents, and non-binary folk. My name is Rachel Stevens, and you may have read some of my previous work analyzing the heck out of the IDW Transformers books. This is the start of something new and different, something less formal and academic. As much as I love comic books, I love other…
Con Diary: Nan Desu Kan 2014. Anime! J-Dramas! Cosplay! Academics!
It had been two years since I’ve attended an anime convention. Unfortunately, my last con experience was awkward and disappointing. The con—which must-not-be-named—had transformed from a fan-centered experience one year to an industry-centered experience the next, and, sadly, it discouraged me from attending any new cons in the future. Despite my reservations about anime con…
