Meredith McClaren’s series Hinges started its life on Kickstarter, where the first book got funding to be brought into the physical world in late May of 2013. Now the book,…
I like it when you call me Brimp Papa
Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Sex Criminals has finally come out with its second volume, aptly titled Two Worlds, One Cop, and it’s as perfect as the last one. Sex…
The light obstructed
It’s been a long time since I’ve opened up a book to find a map in the front—and a fictional map, instead of some sketch of the migration of the…
Godhood and power ballads
Kieron Gillen, writer of the Iron Man series “Believe,” is even better when writing original fiction. The Wicked + The Divine is our world, but one in which every 90…
Princess Ugg has a lot to teach
Ted Naifeh’s Princess Ugg is a ridiculous delight and a real breath of fresh air. In Princess Ugg, Princess Ulga of the highlands Grimmeria and sole child of the king,…
The Outcast at home
Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta’s Outcast is about Kyle Barnes, a young man dubbed outcast by the demons in his life. Kyle’s whole life is defined by all the women in…
Sex in the media and the problems that come with it
Your favorites are problematic. The rape culture in America is ubiquitous, and the best and most popular media isn’t exempt from this. In America, nearly one in five women have…
Representing Georgia
“I started to feel guilty for not doing more. I became restless.” Rep. John Lewis, born in 1940, was a young man during the initial stirrings of the civil rights…
Deconstructing the Strong Female Protagonist
Good representation in media is a limited resource. There aren’t many examples, and the ones that exist are often very lonely. Strong Female Protagonist is one of the few fantastic…
Angels in the outfield
As I’m sure you’ve heard, it’s now 2015, and we all know what that means: God’s wrath. Well, not so much the wrath of God, but the weirdest consequence of a…
Faith in monochrome
Joshua Hale Fialkov’s ongoing series The Life After is largely a retelling of Christian mythology, in which the Christian God is an undulating blob of misplaced white limbs and eyeballs….