It’s a good time to be a Wonder Woman fan. Sure, it’s only taken seventy-five years, but the Amazon princess is finally beginning to receive a level of widespread respect equal to the other, mostly male, heroic icons venerated by popular culture. A vast amount of responsibility for this achievement lies with the relaunched Wonder…
Love is Love: An Ally Anthology?
Love Is Love Edited by Sarah Gaydos and Jamie S. Rich. Stories by various creators DC and IDW Comics December 28, 2016 Love Is Love will likely go down in history as a key comic project for the 2010s. A charity book spanning 146 pages, its proceeds will be donated to help victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting….
Review: Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal
Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal Ed Luce Fantagraphics November 2016 Disclaimer: Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal was reviewed using a copy provided by Fantagraphics. This is probably the raunchiest non-fuck comic I’ve read in recent years. Do not read until midnight. It is not appropriate for kids. Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal is the followup to…
Avengers Academy: Queer Rep Done Well in Capes
Avengers Academy is a free-to-play mobile game, though it’s more of a waiting-for-timers game in my experience. Unlike a lot of my friends on here I don’t like Avengers Academy, well, as a game. The business model is just too awful, and I can’t find myself invested in real time-based gameplay loops that cause me…
Queer Girl Does Not Meet World at Disney
There was a resounding sigh of disappointment on Wednesday as Disney confirmed what many fans had been dreading–Girl Meets World has been cancelled. After three seasons, the sequel to the ’90s classic Boy Meets World is over. The show began in 2014, and quickly gained a large following, not least because of the strong friendship between…
Stealing Snow: Are You a Good Trope or a Bad Trope?
Stealing Snow Danielle Paige Bloomsbury Publishing September 2016 Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This review may also contain spoilers.
Thursday Book Beat: South Asian KidLit, Handmaiden’s Tale Adaptation and Pantsuit Nation Book Controversy
Hi book lovers! The countdown to the holidays is here! I’ve finally lifted my head from my textbooks, finished my exams and am now working as much as I can to pay for all the gifts I’m buying (because Christmas is a capitalist holiday in the Western world). I’m headed up to my godmother’s cottage…
Merry Scary Christmas: The White Heteronormative Horror of Hallmark Christmas Movies
Within the grand history of storytelling there are many terrifying alternate universes. The Skynet apocalypse of the Terminator franchise, the X-Men’s Sentinel-laden “Days of Future Past” reality, the devolved, ultra capitalism of The Running Man and the brainwashed secret civilization of They Live. But perhaps none are as harrowing and vacuous as the one created…
2016 CanLit Recommendations for Julian Barnes (And Everyone Else Too)
I am a big fan of Canadian literature a.k.a CanLit. But it can sometimes be difficult to find people who share this passion. The two most common reasons I’ve found are 1) people don’t live in Canada and are therefore not exposed to it or 2) they assume it’s all about people in cabins up…
The Crow Girl: Kindness in an Unexpected Form
The Crow Girl Erik Axl Sund Harvill Secker, 2016 Erik Axl Sund is the author of this book, but he is a composite creature. Jerker Eriksson and Håkan Axlander Sundquist are lifelong friends and collaborators elsewhere–in music, in the art world, etc. To write with a peer can produce popular work (see Good Omens, for…
Duality of Desires in Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden
The Handmaiden Director: Park Chan-wook Writers: Chung Seo-kyung and Park Chan-wook Starring: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-won, Cho Jin-woong North American premiere: October 28, 2016
When The Moon Was Ours is Beautifully Intersectional
When The Moon Was Ours Marie-Anne McLemore St. Martin’s Press October 4th, 2016 Disclaimer: An Advanced Reader’s Copy (ARC) of the book was provided by the publisher for an honest review. Anna-Marie McLemore’s When the Moon Was Ours asks us to suspend our belief that girls can spill out of water towers and grow roses out…