Teen Response to Celebrity Violence

I haven’t been following the Rihanna/Chris Brown beating very closely – but a blog I follow recently posted an article about teen response to the incident. Which is important to me – because teens are the market for Rihanna and Brown, and their reaction to these Pop idols violent interaction tells me something about what’s [...]

American Portraits: Racism and Sexism

Here are a few snippets of racism and sexism as reflected in American media and politics, both encountered within the last 24 hours. Both incredibly disheartening. We’ll start with the more obvious first.

BLACK MEN AND WHITE WOMEN
The first time I watched this was at work with the sound turned off. I only had [...]

The First Wave

It took a few days to accomplish it, but I dug my way through ten comic books – the first batch on the long but distinguished list. The three series:
1. Angel: After the Fall
2. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Season 8
3. Spike: After the Fall
For obvious reasons, once you’ve started reading Whedon related material, it’s difficult [...]

Contraceptives Equal Abortion?

Apparently as a parting “Fuck You” to women’s reproductive rights, the Bush administration is toying with the idea of classifying birth control (the pill, IUD’s, the patch) as abortion.
Just in case you thought you read that incorrectly…yes, I did just say, classifying birth control as abortion.
I wish I was making this up. I truly do.
Apparently [...]

Try the Sampler Platter

Reviewed here: American Born Chinese, Faker and Off Road
My latest trip to the library not only yielded me around $20 in overdue fines (damn the man!) but also a stack of about 20 tpb/graphic novels to consume. I’m going to forego lengthy blogs about each for a review snack pack of three books in particular.
#1
American [...]

Incognegro

I picked this book up at one of my scouting sessions at the local library – intrigued by the title and the concept of the storyline – taking something historically true and making a comic book out of it is a pretty common theme lately.

Incognegro takes place in the 1930’s, back in the Southern heyday [...]

Whiteout: Comic Adventures in Antarctica

Just wanted to clear things up – this is not a blog about the ingenius correction fluid otherwise known as ”liquid paper“ created by a secretary Bette Nesmith Graham – mother of Monkees alumni Michael Nesmith.
Nope – this is about “Whiteout” the comic book written by Greg Rucka and artist Steve Leiber.

This series was originally suggested to [...]

Operation Chaos

This is why I refuse to even consider being a Republican. I was actually tempted to vote for a few Repub platforms I really enjoyed during the state elections this Spring…but shenanigans like this make me bitter and hostile towards any Republican candidate I might have considered.
Rush Limbaugh urges Republicans to “switch sides” and vote [...]

Girls on Film

This one goes out to all the ladies.

I just read a New York Times article, on the advice from another comic obsessed woman blogger, about the lack of good roles for women in Hollywood movies and Hollywood comic movies. I immediately got on board with the idea presented in the article. It’s something that I [...]

FutureSex: When Men Have Babies

As I logged onto google this afternoon – fully intending to post something entirely different – this little tidbit caught my eye:
Pregnant Man to Give Birth in Bend, Oregon

I’ve always fantasized about this concept, ever since watching this movie when I was younger: Junior
I was doing a bit of googling on the subject, to [...]