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Where the Wonder Women Are: #25 Kitty Pryde
SPOILERS AHOY, ESPECIALLY FOR THE JOSS WHEDON ASTONISHING X-MEN RUN, DON’T SAY I DIDN’T WARN YOU. I came late to the Kitty Pryde party. She was one of the X-Men characters I always managed to miss,...
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Where the Wonder Woman Are: #27 The Invisible Woman
Sue Storm/Richards, AKA the Invisible Girl, AKA The Invisible Woman, has at various times in her long career with The Fantastic Four reflected everything that is bad and mishandled about the writing...
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What Geek Girls Wear (Is None of Your Business)
Superheroes are hot right now. So hot, in fact, that some of the merch (occasionally) gets targeted at girls. When sparkly pink and black retro Batgirl, Supergirl and Wonder Woman t-shirts first turned...
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Where the Wonder Women Are: #29 Hawkeye
One of the big traditions of superhero comics is the legacy name – a superhero identity that gets passed from character to character, either permanently or (more commonly) until its original owner...
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Where the Wonder Women Are: #30 Maya
This teen super heroine stems from the period (1993-94) when Justice League Europe transitioned into the second incarnation of Justice League International, and made a serious attempt to be actually...
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Where the Wonder Women Are #31 Nico Minoru & the Runaways
Consider this Runaways Week in the Where the Wonder Women Are Universe! Just when I thought I understood comics, and the Marvel Universe in particular, Runaways came along to shake up my perceptions....
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Where the Wonder Women Are #32: Karolina Dean of the Runaways
So you think your teen years were tough. Karolina is an alien AND a lesbian. When she and her fellow Runaways discover that their parents are all evil, she has rather more to take in than the rest of...
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Where the Wonder Women Are: #33 Gertrude Yorkes of the Runaways
When I first read my way through Runaways, I enjoyed all the characters from whip-smart Alex and doofy but sweet Chase to the troubled, angsty Nico and the even more troubled, even more angsty...
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Where the Wonder Women Are: #34 Molly Hayes/Bruiser of the Runaways
Okay, I have another favourite. Don’t tell Gert! But how can you not love an eleven-year-old who goes by the superhero name Bruiser? Well, she was Princess Powerful first, but even that is pretty...
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Where the Wonder Women Are: #35 Big Barda
When I first met Scott and Barda Free, they were living a life of domestic bliss, occasionally punctuated by explosions and the other side effects of having a superhero in the family. Scott went off to...
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XX-Men
The new X-Men series caught my attention because of the all female line-up. All female characters, that is, as both the writer and artist on the series are in fact male. Intriguing then that it’s the...
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Wonder Woman is Not the Problem
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while. How often do we hear about The Problem with Wonder Woman? That one is actually a very pro-Wonder Woman article which addresses many of the sillier myths...
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That Captain America Movie (and that imaginary Black Widow movie)
I didn’t expect to start caring about Captain America. Even when I started getting seriously into the reading of Marvel comics (something I’ve only been doing this decade as opposed to DC comics which...
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Issue #1 – Thor (2014)
The Marvel comics universe is huge and sprawling and complex – and it’s tricky sometimes to figure out where to hop aboard. I thought since I’ve been on a comics kick lately, I’d do some short reviews...
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Issue #1 – Spider-Woman (2014)
Title: Spider-Woman #1 [AKA this Spider-quest brings all the Spider-Gals to the Spider-yard] Writer: Dennis Hopeless Artist: Greg Land The Buzz: Mostly the buzz around this comic was the negative kind...
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Issue #1 – Convergence Special – Oracle, JLI, Batgirl
A slightly different Issue #1 review this time – because DC Comics have exploded with a multitude of #1s of the like unseen since the New 52 revamp. I hate a massive sprawling comics event as much as...
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Issue #1: The Adventures of Supergirl
Title: The Adventures of Supergirl #1 Writer: Sterling Gates Artist: Bengal (cover by Cat Staggs) The Buzz: This digital-first comic is based on the CBS Supergirl series, which provides a whole bunch...
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Emotional Masculinity and Lost Opportunities: Why Deadpool 2 is Better Than...
ALL THE SPOILERS seriously I’m gonna talk about every beat of this movie and you don’t want that, not if you’re planning to see it, so only read this without seeing the movie if you’re that person who...
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