Last night, plucky WWAC writer Ardo and I connected via cyberspace to take in the premiere of DC’s newest foray into the wonderful world of comic book TV: Gotham. Today, dear reader, we bring you our impressions. Dark dark dark dark dark growly police talk dark dark dark #Gotham — Laura Harcourt (@blueofthebay) September…
Zinesters Interviews
Interview with zinester: Sarah Scalise/SA$$Y Zine: Understanding the Beauty Myth: A Girl’s Guide to Human Sexuality, Interpreting Popular Culture, & the Cultivation of Pimples and Pubic Hair!
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: A Pay-What-You-Want Bonanza!
Alison Bechdel’s New Graphic Novel Focuses on Fitness Struggles Fresh off the announcement of her MacArthur “genius grant” award, the first reveal of Alison Bechdel’s new work has arrived. The Secret to Superhuman Strength will, like her previous works, focus on auto-biography as Bechdel chronicles her decades-long obsession with various fitness fads and athletic hobbies…
Comic Cover Showdown: Big Trouble In Little China #4 vs Alien Legion: Dead and Buried
Welcome to Comic Cover Showdown, where we pit new comic releases against one another to see who has the stronger cover design. We’ll be critiquing covers by referring to fine art elements, so you should expect to come away from this with new knowledge. This showdown’s theme is negative space.
A Musical Plea to Make Dredd II
Composers Jon and Al Kaplan have released their latest internet musical and its humorous plea to bring in Karl Urban for Dredd II. Dredd: The Musical points out that there are many more villains in Mega-City One that need to be judged. The two minute thirty-five second song nugget also includes a reminder of why the 1995 Judge…
What’s Your Damage? #WWACNerdMovie This Wednesday Is So Very
For September’s Classic Nerd Movie Club this Wednesday, we will be livetweeting Heathers, the endlessly quotable teen cult classic from the 80’s starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Are you a Veronica in a world full of Heathers? Or did it at least feel that way in high school? Winona Ryder stars as the reluctantly…
Gamers, Voice Your Thoughts On Diversity in Games
With women in gaming on the rise, student researcher, Jennifer Allaway, is exploring players’ wants for diversity in games and games developers’ understanding of that desire. She’s assessing that gap using two different surveys to create a case study, one survey is aimed specifically at consumers and one aimed specifically at developers. If you are…
The Wicked, The Divine and The Mythology — Part 2: The Morrigan and Baphomet
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 meanings and foreshadows only available with a bit of background knowledge. Issue #2 ended with a huge cliffhanger: a new god (it is possible indeed, Laura!)….
Review: The Maze Runner Film
For a story that relies heavily on the unknown, The Maze Runner is built solidly on familiar and easily recognizable tropes. But while those tropes are engaging during the course of the movie, neither the characters nor the plot hold up to further scrutiny. I watched it without having read the series, and I left…
Crafting Geeky: Clench Up Legolas
If you know me (heck, even if you don’t), you know I love all things Hawk. My obsession with Hawkeye in particular began at my very first con, Emerald City 2010. I met Chris Giarrusso, picked up his Mini Marvels, and instantly fell in love. The portrayal was a character that everyone else forgot about…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Too Much Deadpool
This Marvel Monday is being written from a train! I am on my way home from a trip to Boston, so you get to enjoy some news composed while gazing out at the scenic backs of factories and vacant lots as I criss-cross this great nation the American way — on Amtrak, with significant delays!…
Sarah Lazarovic Live-Sketched the People’s Climate March in Toronto
Following the People’s Climate Marches from around the world on social media? Illustrator and MacLean’s contributor Sarah Lazarovic’s live sketch blog is my favourite coverage of the event so far. While she doesn’t go deep on the politics of the march, the chances of a new international climate deal, or the possible affects on upcoming elections…
