The Sensational She-Hulk #1 continues to make Jennifer Walters’ version of New York City feel like a lived-in place for superheroes to hang out. Jen feels like your average, relatable singleton, making her comic series a delight.
REVIEW: Women Of Marvel #1: This One’s For the Girls
Women of Marvel #1 is a fun, zingy journey through the Marvel universe via its many female characters. While some stories don’t sing as loudly as the others, the overall package is quite enjoyable.
REVIEW: She-Hulk is Refreshing, Hilarious and Relatable—Who Cares About the CGI?
Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) is a great attorney who just wants to do her job, win her cases, live her life, and pay off her enormous student loans. But when an accident turns her into She-Hulk, a green superpowered being, Jennifer’s life is turned upside down, though not always in a bad way.
REVIEW: She-Hulk #1 Isn’t a Smash
It’s been a while since I’ve read a She-Hulk book and nothing makes me happier than seeing my big green lawyer lady on an excellent cover. Jen Bartel continues to bring her A-Game to our gentle giant and I love it. However, beyond some good looks, this wasn’t a good first issue.
Last Week’s Episode: Black Rights are Human Rights and Pronouns Aren’t a Joke
Is it 2021 yet? I’m ready for next year. Maybe next year we can stop explaining the basics of human rights and common decency to people. In case you need to primer for having your own conversations — Black rights are human rights (not a political stance) and someone’s pronouns aren’t a joke. If you…
Living Heroes: Stephanie Williams on Her Fan Comic, Getting Funded, and Being the Meme Queen
When Stephanie Williams decided to run a Kickstarter for her new fan comic project, Living Heroes with artist O’Neill Jones, she could never have imagined it’d be fully funded in just 24 hours. As a huge fan of Steph’s webcomics, comics criticism, and general online presence, I quizzed her about her newest project, her journey…
She-Hulk: The Hero We Need in 2019
With the Women’s Marches, the #MeToo movement, and the important conversations we’ve been seeing recently about sexual assault and consent.Women have certainly made their voices heard. And in the current political climate, not only is anger—and even rage—from women understandable, it can serve as a catalyst for real change when funneled into productive action.
Monthly Marvel Muster: Endings and Beginnings
Welcome back to the August edition Monthly Marvel Muster! Where I discuss the goings-on of the Marvel comics universe. August saw the long-awaited end of Secret Empire, and the first of the Generations one-shots featuring time-tossed team-ups between characters who’ve used the same code names at different times. No new ongoing series launched in August,…
Jennifer Walters is Marvel’s HULK. It’s About Time!
Jennifer Walters has been a stalwart in the Marvel Universe since her inception in 1980. She was created as a quick fix solution for Marvel, who were becoming increasingly worried that the team behind the hit TV show The Incredible Hulk might add a female version of their star, just like The Six Million Dollar…
React Not With Rage, But Grace: She-Hulk Is Cancelled
It’s normal to feel a mixed bag of things when encountered with the words “Final Issue” in the solicits page next to one of your favorite current comics. “Final issue of what?” you might think: surely they can’t be cancelling something that you love so much. They’re not monsters.
Holding You Accountable: Goyer, Mazin, and A Giant Green Porn Star
Earlier this week, during the taping of a live-audience podcast named Scriptnotes, screenwriter David S. Goyer (Man of Steel) sat and talked with a number of other screenwriters (Andrea Berloff, Stephen McFeely, and Christopher Markus, to be exact) and the podcast hosts, John August and Craig Mazin, about writing superhero movies. A major point of…
News & Things: Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind der Jäger!
Attack on Titan Gets Real Attack on Titan, the anime/manga hit that’s blowing up in the US (seriously– have you been to a con lately and not seen one of those little platoons of SNK cosplayers?) celebrated 30 million volumes sold by publisher Kodansha by projecting this amazing (and super creepy) Titan in Kawasaki, Japan.