Category — Comics

The Buffy Season 8 comic series started off with a 4-issue arc that was just okay, then produced the best single-issue comic I have ever read in my life (”The Chain”), and then managed to sustain some serious quality through the second 4-issue arc, “No Future For You”.
I have always liked the character of Faith–I [...]

After the, er, thing I reviewed last time, I figured I’d go for something I love:  Nevada.  It’s a comic, by Steve Gerber, set Las Vegas, about a dancer called, as you may guess, Nevada.
And Nevada rocks.  While the whole series is about something happening *to* her - specifically a cosmic initiation called the Ordeal [...]

I ran across this snippet at author John Scalzi’s blog Whatever this morning. It’s from the schedule at Penguicon, which is this weekend in Troy, MI.
6-7PM Promenade East Limited Female Roles In Fantasy, Comics, and SF TheFerrett, Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, Sarah Monette, M. Keaton Why is it that a female character will either be [...]