I knew about Samurai Jack for a long time, but I never really got into it. It was just another cartoon that my brother and some friends were into that I just, at the time,…

Source: Samurai Jack: Aku’s Folly

I found World Without End almost completely by accident, or rather, in a chain of events that led to a name and a title. It began when I finally read AARGH! for the first time.…

Source: On the Origin of the Sexes War: Jamie Delano and John Higgins’ World Without End

For a while, I thought I had a horrible feeling why Shadow left America. If you don’t any spoilers for either the book or the upcoming television series, please read no further. If not, I’d…

Source: When Shadow Returns: Neil Gaiman’s American Gods

I will admit, I’ve been waiting for this film. Until fairly recently, I used to write for another online magazine that, in its last incarnation, was called GeekPr0n. I spent some years covering various comics,…

Source: XX: Women in Horror, Horror in the Family

Back in 2013, it was my intention to participate in what was called the Gelfing Gathering Author Quest: a contest in which the Jim Henson Company along with Grosset & Dunlap would chose a writer…

Source: What is The Power of The Dark Crystal?

In Part I of this article, “Not All-Men: On the Subject of “He” in Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s ODY-C,” we looked at the presence and purpose of men and male characters in an almost…

Source: Wrestling With the Cycle: Not All Men and “He” in Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s ODY-C

When I last wrote on Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s ODY-C in my article She Made Them in Their Image, I was attempting to focus on the Sebex – the third sex created in a…

Source: Not All-Men: On the Subject of “He” in Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s ODY-C

It’s funny how something called “The Answer” are two artistic and emotional pathways that ultimately lead to the same place. Then again, perhaps it is more accurate to say that it is quite fitting. In…

Source: Steven Universe: What is The Answer?

A little while, I had the excuse to revisit the 1988 comics anthology AARGH! Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia in light of more recent political events. In my article AARGH! RESIST! A Retrospective and a…

Source: Mad Love Meet Love is Love

“So much of this is made of books, this Commonplace book….” – Robert Black, Commonplace Book, June 5th, 1919, Providence #1, p. 32 This article is strange for a few reasons. First off, it’s about…

Source: Traversing the Plateau of Leng: To Read is to Be Read in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ Providence