The Casual Vacancy and respect
First of all a caveat: I have not read this book yet, though I will as soon as I have it. I have no information except the publisher blurb and don’t want anything more. This is more about how people are being...
Molly Danger, Jamal Igle, and me.
So Jamal Igle has this awesome comic project going on: MOLLY DANGER. I was excited by it when I first heard about it. A lot of this is because I am a fan of Jamal’s. His art on Supergirl, Firestorm, The...
The Prof. Lex Theory
So one time Chris Haley drew a Lex Luthor. And it looked a tiny bit like Professor Xavier to me. And then the entire universe clicked into place for me. See, at the end of All-Star Superman Lex has given himself...
Female leads in comics – why aren’t we doing better?
I wanna talk about female lead characters in comics. Again, I know. But it’s a thing I think about a lot. Now, this post will contain some spoilers for Amelia Cole and the Unknown World issues 1-3 because it...
Mural from Hell
This weekend at Baltimore Comic Con I found the single scariest thing in Baltimore. Well, for now. Still. There was this mural up in the convention center, over the Starbucks on the third floor. And this shit was...
Be decent human being
Because this still needs to be said: — If you assault someone – you assaulted them. They didn’t deserve it, ask for it, or anything of the sort. You did it. You. — Blaming the harassed for...
Of questions and how to answer them.
The other day, Faith Erin Hicks wrote an interesting screed (read it here) titled “Why I Will Not Draw your Comic For Free.” It had a lot of great points. It also had a bunch of things I take some...