As the world finds its new normal, the joys of an opening night movie and one-shot promotional comics start to return. As a part of opening night for Sonic The Hedgehog: Sonic 2, a cinema exclusive comic was handed out to the audience in my hometown theatre. Partly functioning as promotional material and partly acting…
What’s a Homestuck Fandom After the Epilogues?
Let me tell you about Homestuck. Homestuck is a webcomic, first published by Andrew Hussie in April 2009. The comic consists of static captioned images, animated GIFs, Flash pages with music and animation, and interactive “walk-around Flashes” recalling early-2000s video games. The story follows a group of internet friends who play a beta version of…
Insta Made Me Read It: Scorching Romance and Let’s Play
Insta Made Me Read It is a twice-monthly column covering the webtoons advertised by LINE Webtoon on their Instagram account and on their app. The focus is on what’s both popular and encouraged to be popular by the publisher-platform itself. This time, I’ve been reading Scorching Romance and Let’s Play. Both are romance-themed comics with…
Leave a Comment: The Value of Commenting on Fan Works
Fan creators are a huge part of any fandom. They create fanart, fanfiction, edits, aesthetic posts, playlists, AMVs, and so much more for everyone in fandom to enjoy across the board! Whatever someone might be wanting to see, there will more than likely be something that fits with what they might be looking for.
He-Man, Hugos, and Who Benefits From Fandom
Last night I learned about two things in quick succession.
Everybody in Comics Knew Girls Loved ElfQuest
Wendy Pini and her husband and collaborator Richard Pini are on a world tour: “Forty Years of Pointed Ears.” This journey, which most recently stopped in at SDCC, celebrates the four publication decades of ElfQuest that culminated in February’s final chapter. ElfQuest is one of the most seminal American comics, spanning the last 22 years…
The Captain America We Need
A radical hate movement has infiltrated the American government. A cartoon despot pulls tactics from his skimming of Mein Kampf while a hostile foreign power pulls his strings. Just as we’ve started to make progress toward lasting change and brought long-overdue conversations on transphobia, racism, and systemic oppression to the public sphere, we find ourselves…
Does “Star Wars: The Editor Strikes Back” Hold Up?
Back in 2012, Topher Grace edited the three Star Wars prequels, The Phantom Menace, The Clone Wars, and Revenge of the Sith, into one 85 minute movie and called it Star Wars: The Editor Strikes Back. After Rogue One, we wanted to see if held up. (Or, honestly, if it was ever good.) So Kat,…
“We Don’t Want You” Or; Why I Don’t Consider Myself a Comics Fan
When my editor asked the staff if someone could write about why they stopped reading certain types of comics, my first reaction was to ask, “Well, what if I feel like I never really started?” I’ve never bought floppies, never had a pull list. Although a self-professed DC fangirl, I don’t buy comics from either…
Finding My Crew: Memories of the Starship Enterprise
I’m not sure which Star Trek episode I saw first — it was either “The Naked Time,” possibly already in rerun, or “The Squire of Gothos.” I was eleven years old, I do remember that my reaction was, “This is fun!” followed by, “Much better than Lost in Space.” That means it likely must have been “The…
Kotaku Exposes a Story of Sexual Harassment in the Gaming Industry
Note: For this article, we will continue to use the pseudonym the interview subject has requested in order to protect her professional identity. I think that most women who are involved in the comics/gaming/general nerd worlds have at least one story similar to this, but I’ll go ahead and give you an example from my…
Interview with Black Girl Nerds creator, Jamie Broadnax
Jamie Broadnax has been blogging since 2007, and in February of 2012 created Black Girl Nerds, a site for blerds (black nerds) to find fellowship around many geek fandoms. BGN has a great mission statement: “This is a website for every nerdy girl that can finally come out of the closet and tell the world…