1. The epic world and all the details that make it so real. Jia Jia: Though this is the first issue of Monstress, you already get a sense of how rich the world is. There is a caste system of humans vs slaves,...
Sci-fi and fantasy have become the new cool. From The Hunger Games or the True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse series, to the rise of the geek chic t-shirt and sold-out Comic Cons, the celebration of sci-fi and fantasy...
Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve been dying to go to San Diego Comic Con. THE Comic Con. The largest gathering anywhere of uber-nerd-geek-fanpeople. My People. I was a geeky adolescent scamming Warren...
Me: “I am so in love with the girl from Harlem from the Atlas of Beauty. It doesn’t matter that I’m straight. Seeing someone with that combination of elegance and edge just has me feeling...
Earlier this year I noticed a mole. Small and indistinct, I didn’t think much about it. But, as part of my New Year tune-up, I decided to go for a general check-up with my local GP. Typically of the National...
Tuesday December 30th, 4.30 pm: I have just returned home early from work and am frantically getting ready for the evening ahead. A group of friends are coming over in 15 minutes to await the arrival of our made-to-order...
Why I wrote this and where I’m coming from I’m a PhD student, and I wrote this to try and survive the end of my semester this year. So much of academia goes off down theoretical rabbit holes,...
Forget the five stages of grief, I got six. If you’ve ever felt silly chatting up an ex or meditating on a bar of soap post-breakup, I’ve done it, too. In my book, wearing sweatpants for days...
I am not the face of this movement and I cannot be the voice of it. I am an overeducated white woman and if they gun me down there will be smiling graduation pictures; there will be outrage and there will...
When I tell people about my fear of flying, it mostly elicits mild sympathy. A half-hearted “Oh, I know, isn’t flying stressful.” Or a light chuckle and a kindly “Don’t worry about...
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