Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #0 Kyle Higgins (Writer), Hendry Prasetya (Illustrator), Matt Herms (Colourist), Ed Dukeshire (Letterer) for BOOM! January 13, 2016 I’m going to make something very clear first and foremost: I love Power Rangers. Maybe a little too much. I’ve been a fan since the very beginning—Saban’s Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers—as a fresh-faced chubby kindergartener,…
This Week in WWAC History: Avenger Finger Puppets, Summer Reads, Kittens, Barbarella, and Ghost in the Shell
Welcome to this week’s stroll down memory lane. Summer is speeding by but you can still pick up some great Late Summer Reading recommendations you may have missed from the staff in July, 2013: Summer reading lists usually come out in late spring, early summer. Just as you’re starting to dream of a cold drink on…
The Visual Interference of the Gods: Interview with Christian Ward of Ody-C
One of the most innovative and beautiful comics of the past year has been Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s Ody-C (Image Comics): a gender-swapped, psychedelic revisiting of the Odyssey in space — although, of course, it’s also much more than that. I talked to Christian Ward about reinterpreting myth, divine psychedelia, and the individuality of…
Year of the Ram: A Love Letter to One Game and a Hopeful Future
Ringing in the New Year is a very special time for me and my family. Here there’s fireworks, flowers, lots of food, parades, red packets to be passed around, and lots of hugs and laughs with relatives we haven’t seen in months. Over in Hong Kong there are televised variety shows and a furious bidding…
Kickstarter of the Week: Songs of My People
Music is a big part of geek fan culture. From filk to nerdcore, there are tons of great songs to represent our love of all things geek.
Short and Sweet (or Sour): Sex Criminals Caught by Rocket Girls in Color?
Steampunk ghost hunters and and dead mutants and sex criminals, oh my! It’s that time again. What time? Short and Sweet (or Sour) time! Boston Metaphysical Society #2 Madeleine Holly-Rosing, Emily Hu, Gloria Caeli, Fahriza Kamaputra, Troy Peteri, Alti Firmansyah Back in the day, I attended Boston Comic Con 2013 and had the opportunity to…