Women in the MCU: Taking Out the Trash, a Tale of Two Scenes with The Bechdel Test
From Pepper Potts and Christine Everhart to Valkyrie and Topaz, how has the #MCU evolved in its portrayal of women interacting (or not)?
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Examining New X-Men Pt. 15: Dinosaur Vacuum
Why Magneto can’t be Xorn? Do we have to bring up Alan Moore to talk Grant Morrison? Why do some critics feel a fascist schoolboy is a tragic hero? How do Frank Miller, Chris Claremont, Kevin Smith affect our reading of Magneto’s downfall?
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The Walking Dead Deluxe #16: IN LIVING COLOR
In our sixteenth installment of #TheWalkingDead Deluxe IN LIVING COLOR, we delve into the story’s use of the horror genre to reflect the terrors of our world with a meaningful voice. @RobertKirkman @RusWooton @DaveMcCaig @CharlieAdlard #TWD
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Examining New X-Men Pt. 14: How to Get There to There
An imperfect 1000 page comic, New X-Men by Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez, Igor Kordey, HiFi, et al, stretches from the past to future even when read today. Self-referential, perpetually topical, entrenched in a mythic past.
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The Conjuring Franchise for Dummies
The Conjuring franchise is one that’s dominated, and according to some plagued, the horror movie genre for the past ten years. Each time a new movie in the franchise comes out you know, even if you don’t watch horror movies. Let’s see what all the fuss is about.
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Examining New X-Men Pt. 13: What’s the Mutant Meta For?
What’s the use looking beyond the fictional narrative at metaphors and artist’s lives, other comics and real life? Can’t have a Grant Morrison New X-Men without Grant Morrison, or their father, or a Marvel Comics, or a comics industry.
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Women in the MCU: Black Widow, a Woman Without a Family
Before they gave her a solo movie, #Marvel killed Natasha Romanoff. What went wrong in Nat’s story, and how can the #BlackWidow movie do better for the #MCU?
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Independence Day: Still Holds Up
Independence Day
The movies we love as children tend to get a whole lot worse once not viewed through the rose colored glasses our childhoods bring. I was expecting that to be true of Independence Day, the hit 1996 sci-fi classic, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the movie still held up relatively well.
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The Walking Dead Deluxe #15: IN LIVING COLOR
Our fifteenth installment of #TheWalkingDead Deluxe delves deep into consequences that are simply difficult to fathom, and the impacts they can have in the past, present and future. @RobertKirkman @RusWooton @DaveMcCaig @CharlieAdlard #TWD
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Holding Out For A Hero: Loki, Erasure, and the Future of Trans Representation (Loki’s Genderfluidity in Marvel Pt. 2)
In the second part of a series exploring Loki’s genderfluidity, @ligerlillie analyzes depictions of #Loki after Agent of Asgard, comics censorship, the #Pride anthology, and the future of trans stories in comics. #Marvel #LokiWednesdays
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Examining New X-Men Pt. 12: Out and Proud
Beast is gay as the next mutant. Rover loves Tom Skylark. EVA & Fantomex are queer. Angel is mixed race & bisexual. Exploring the highs and lows of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men in representing ethnic pride, out queerness, minority existence.
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COMMENTARY: Found Home, Trans Liberation & Baba Yaga
‘Stardust & Nettle’ is a collection of comics and illustrations by non binary creator @RequiemPluie , part of the wider project ‘The Forest Is Home’, that reinvents the tale of Baba Yaga for those that need to find and make their own homes. #TransRights #Pride #SmallPressSaturday
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