Over on my blog today, I’ve got my review of the ridiculously awesome graphic novel The Wicked + The Divine. If you like world deities and mythologies, this book has a lot to delight you. It also features a kick ass woman of color as narrator and a wickedly awesome lady Lucifer.
The innocence of Children let loose upon the world
Beautiful Darkness is the story of tiny sentient anthropomorphic creatures living in the decaying body of a dead girl in the woods. This might make it seem as though the darkness should be apparent, but it appears only in contrast to the beauty of the crisp leaves in the forest and the rosy cheeks of Aurora as she builds tiny shelters from discarded school folders and hands out rations of crumbled crackers from the bottom of a school bag. It is the innocence of the […]
What does it really mean to be happy?
Seconds is a stand-alone graphic novel by the author of the Scott Pilgrim series. The story centers on Katie, about to turn 30, who ran the kitchen of a very successful restaurant, who has dreams of owning her own restaurant. So she forms a partnership with a man and buys a building that needs a lot of work. The construction is taking a long time, which makes her unhappy. The restaurant she ran is slowly phasing her out and although she no longer works there, […]
So Many Comics, So Little Time
I keep seeing these Best American editions in my library and as someone who enjoys lists and finding out about unknown sources of literature, I’ve always wanted to pick one up and get to know some new authors. The Best American Comics 2014 edited by Scott McCloud and Bill Kartalopoulos gave me the idea that I should get more familiar with the graphic novel/comic world. I’ve read a few for Cannonball Read 6, but I wanted to expand my horizons. Thankfully, I wasn’t disappointed. Scott […]
Fox can’t take this sky from us…
Few things in pop culture are as disappointing as the cancellation of Joss Whedon’s western tinged science fiction series Firefly. Sure we got a movie out of the deal, and a pretty damn spectacular one at that, but there was so much potential in the concept that to be cheated out it by Fox stings worse than most premature cancellations. Well, all that is in the past! Following in the footsteps of Firefly’s big sister, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, the continuing adventures of the Firefly […]
Ms. Marvel; the Delight of the Origin Story
You must have heard about Ms. Marvel – it’s the most important comic of 2014; it even says so on the cover! What’s so important about it? The new Ms. Marvel, Kamala, is a muslim. I cannot believe that it’s 2015 and stories with non-white, non-Christian people is still such a big thing. It is a step in the right direction though, that is; it’s another story. So this review will focus on the actual story. Which is an origin story. I love a good […]