Stephanie and I went to see Captain America: Civil War this weekend. I sort of knew that I wanted to write some kind of review of it before I went. I’ve been wanting to do more of that sort of thing. I’d also sort of made the decision a while back that I wanted to…
So, “Justice” has apparently… uh…. dawned… which is to say that Batman v. Superman came out today. Err… yay! Or something. I had done a pretty good job of avoiding spoilers moving up to its release (and I will be try to avoid giving them here) with the sole exception of the official trailers that…
Tomorrow afternoon I’m presenting a paper on Harley Quinn, gender roles and sexy costumes and cosplay at my department’s colloquium (if you happen to be interested and want details to go let me know – learning stuff is fun!!!). It’s actually kind of my dry-run to present the same paper at this year’s PCA/ACA in…
What’s geeky? Comics and statistics. What’s really geeky? Using them both together. A couple months ago, I mentioned that I had been tracking sales on comics starring female characters. This was related to an academic paper I was working on (one that I am finishing up to present on Friday). My primary reason for tracking the sales was…
If you’re the kind of person who reads the random stuff that I write, chances are you’re also the kind of person who thinks the Oscars are stupid. Really, most people think the Oscars are stupid. They always have. This is the 88th Academy Awards, which means for 87 years, people have complained that he wrong movies…
I liked the Deadpool movie. I liked it a lot, actually. This is a big thing, because the honest truth is, I’ve never really given a fuck about Deadpool. I don’t hate the character or anything. I’ve just never cared. I get why he’s popular, but he’s never really been for me. But I like…
Ok. I’m working on something and I could use some feedback from the interwebs. This probably seems like a comic question, and it sort of is, but not really. So I’d like feedback from everyone. Say you were working on a paper and you needed to assess the relative popularity of female comic book characters.…
(Ok, it’s been a few days since the Force… uh…. awakened… but I’m going to attempt to continue to observe the SPOILER embargo. I’m going to try to go out of my way here NOT to be too spoilery about the new movie here. I make no such promises about anything in the other six…
Hello, oh great and powerful Internet. I need your help again. Last year I asked people to help me come up with a list of movie posters for an exercise I wanted to do in my Spring class. I did the exercise and it worked really well. So thank you. But I was thinking of…
I’ve been busy and really crappy about posting random stuff lately. But I did want to put these up. They’re the sketches I did while I was at Wizard World Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago.
If you live in or near Pittsburgh and like comics, or really even if you don’t, you should come to Wizard World Pittsburgh this weekend (Friday through Sunday). Max and I will be set up with a booth selling and signing our comic Cosmic Hellcats. We’ll be joined by several of the Cosmic Hellcat cosplay…
Decided I wanted to do a little bit of digital painting style experimentation… so I drew up a quick sketch of Harley Quinn and tried painting it in a few different styles… Would love to know what people like best.
Recently, my friend, and frequent conference collaborator, AJ Ortega posted a story about one of his students complaining about a short story he assigned for them to read. The story was “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl or Halfie)” by Junot Diaz. AJ’s student felt that it was inappropriate for a teacher…
I actually planned to do a big long rant on why we NEED sexism in comic book stories (how’s that for a teaser… try and figure that one out) but I was busy with a bunch of stuff today and didn’t to finish it. Maybe I will later. Instead, while I was waiting on hold…
Every time I do a new sketch I always say “let me know if there are any requests” (well, at least I do when I remember to say that). A few sketches ago, Joy recommended I draw Magik. When she said that, I was amazed because I hadn’t realized that I actually hadn’t done that…