Remembering Dwayne McDuffie on the anniversary of his death with an interview from an unfinished short on Milestone Comic by the makers of the documentary, White Scripts and Black Men: Black Masculinities in American Superhero Comics. And Dwayne McDuffie explains the secret history of Luke Cage’s exclamation, “Sweet […]
The Substream has a description of The Amazing Spider-Man written by PR execs. Caution: Do not operate a vehicle or heavy machinery after reading. Press release may cause drowsiness, excitability or blurring of vision.
The website for Jim Munroe’s new lo-fi, sci-fi flick, Ghosts With Shit Jobs, is now up with video clips from the film. (Full disclosure: Jim was a co-founding editor and video games editor for the Cultural Gutter).
At Slacktivist, Fred Clark discusses a Ms. Blog post dedicated to products “marketed to people and also women.” He notes the relation of this kind of marketing and this assumption of “male” as “neutral” to Disqus’ default icon for users who haven’t chosen one and to video game […]
Videogame developer Ross Mills was concerned that a British educational toy store was selling Anakin Skywalker toys figures, given that Anakin had massacred a village of sand people, tried to kill his teacher and slaughtered a school of Jedi younglings. The Early Learning Centre responded with an excellent […]
The Mary Sue parses Marvel VP Tom Brevoort’s response to a fan asking about Marvel’s responsibility to its female characters.
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