When I saw the trailer for this week’s episode of Supergirl, “Reality Bytes,” I was a little worried about how it would handle the subject matter. While the show has done a fantastic job with how it’s treated Nia Nal and trans-related issues, this subject in particular needs a lot of nuance, so I was concerned…
The Violence in the System: Transmisogyny In Uncanny X-Men #17
I don’t like Matthew Rosenberg’s work. I’m just gonna go ahead and say that up front: I don’t think it’s good, I don’t think he understands the characters he’s working with, or if he does, I think he’s sloppy in how he handles them. But he gets a lot of praise, a lot of folk…
Previously on Comics: Respect for Graphic Novels
Happy Monday the 13th, which I figure is like Friday the 13th but 100% more cursed because Monday. I don’t know, just go with it. Anyway, news!
Teaching Diverse Lit: Cinderella meets New Beijing
We are fully immersed in the era of adaptations. Fiction fans need not wait more than a week to hear that a favorite novel or comic will soon to make its way to the big or small screen. Old television shows and movies are earning reboots left and right. Stories are getting second and third…
WWE #9: Shield Me From My Brother [GIFs]
WWE #9 Dennis Hopeless (Writer) Serg Acuña (Artist) BOOM! Studios September 27, 2017 It’s the Big Dog’s turn to shine in WWE. Issue #9 starts the third arc of the series. After concentrating on Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose, we naturally move on to Roman Reigns. We also move onto the character hardest to tackle.
A Fantastic Woman Is Fantastic
A Fantastic Woman Sebastián Lelio (director), Benjamín Echazarreta (cinematographer), Soledad Salfate (editor) Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Kuppenheim, Nicolas Saavedra, Amparo Noguera, Nestor Cantillana, Antonia Zegers, Sergio Hernandez (cast) Released February 12, 2017 (Berlin), April 6, 2017 (Chile) Marina and Orlando enjoy a night out to celebrate their relationship, which is only a…
The Tick: Boldly Venture to the Kingdom of the Kind
The Tick Ben Edlund, David Fury, Barry Josephson, Wally Pfister, Barry Sonnenfeld (producers) based on The Tick by Ben Edlund Peter Serafinowicz, Griffin Newman, Valorie Curry, Brendan Hines, Jackie Earle Haley, Yara Martinez, Scott Speiser, Michael Cerveris, Bryan Greenberg, Alan Tudyk (cast) August 25, 2017 (US) Hey. Heyyy. Remember that feeling when you’ve just found…
Show Your #TransComicsLove
Many comics fans are aware of the harassment that Marvel editor Heather Antos received on Twitter, which resulted in the #MakeMineMilkshake campaign of support. They may be less aware of #TransComicsLove and the circumstances that prompted that hashtag. The trolls who attacked Heather Antos lashed out at many other women, as well as people of color…
Previously On Comics: Back Once Again With the Dull Behaviour
Last week in comics started off plenty loud with an internet outcry over harassment suffered by Marvel Comics editor Heather Antos after she posted a picture online of herself and several coworkers sharing milkshakes in honour of the late Flo Steinberg. Comics creators, fans, and journalists all rallied under the hashtag #MakeMineMilkshake to show solidarity…
Bullying in the U.K. Cosplay Scene: What Can Be Done?
Cosplay in the UK has been going on for long time, and I have found myself being involved in it, to a greater or lesser extent, for the last decade. I love cosplay. I love making it. I love wearing it. I love seeing what other people do with it. It has helped me become…
Divided States of Hysteria: A Form Letter of Dismay
Content Warning: This post discusses depictions of fictional violent racist acts. Due to the unique format of Image Comics as a publishing company, response to their individual titles is hard to register. Following the discovery of the lynching and genital mutilation illustrated on the solicited cover of issue four WWAC has put together the following form…
That Bad Boy Image #1: Big Behaviour Bars
Welcome to That Bad Boy Image! A weekly column where we commemorate 25 years of Image by making a very statistically accurate graph to showcase just what those naughty boys and their driving-seat successors are up to during this most momentous quarter century celebration of one of the biggest shakeups in comics history– the founding of Image Comics. WHERE THEY WERE:…
