With Cornell’s last issue, we find out what was really going on with Una Nemo, our psychotic comic book straw feminist from last month. Surprise! The whole dead ex-girlfriend thing was just a front! Vikki Vale is fine (even though she’s tied up in a cupboard; girl can’t catch a break!), and the Dead Ex bag was filled with sawdust and cardboard. Una gets another [...]
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So I feel like, after it being all over Twitter and Tumblr, I should give an explanation for the “Mansplain” panel from Batman and Robin #18. For those of you who don’t know, yes, the villain told Dick Grayson’s Batman that he doesn’t get to Mansplain to her. It was some funny shit, but at the same time, with context…slightly demeaning. If you actually read, [...]
My name is Leigh and I love comic books, so much so that I’ve decided it’s the industry for me. I currently manage a comic book shop. It’s not rocket science, I’m not curing cancer, but between my growing responsibilities, and a colorful cast of customers and coworkers, things certainly aren’t boring. Recently, I’ve been asked to help out with the monthly order form, which [...]
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 thought she had some complexity, some struggles, some ambiguity. [...]
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 of the Hammer – she never gives up her [...]
