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Category Archives: Comics
Serene Slumber Party 3: X-Men: Season One, by K V Taylor
Please put your hands together to warmly welcome the most awesomesauce K V Taylor. Particularly so as I have been a bad Womble and utterly failed to upload the review she kindly sent to me weeks ago. The reasons are … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comics, K V Taylor, Review, Serene Slumber Party, X-Men: Season One
Tagged Angel, Beast, comics, Cyclops, Hank, Iceman, Jean Grey, K V Taylor, Marvel Girl, review, Scott, superheroes, Warren, X-men, X-Men: Season One
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On Subjectivity: Wild Swans, Escher Girls, and Mansplaining
I heard something on Radio 4 this morning that set a fire in my brain. It connected with all kinds of things that have been bubbling beneath the surface for the last few weeks – a bunch of ideas and … Continue reading
Posted in Article, blogs, Comics, Escher Girls, Mansplaining, Review, Wild Swans
Tagged Escher Girls, feminism, Jung Chang, Mansplaining, Peng Liyuan, philosophy, Radio 4, sexism, Wild Swans, Xi Jinping
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Review: City of the Dead Week 1, by Karl Kessel, Ron Randall, Jeremy Colwell, and Grace Allison
Just a little drop in the Halloween ocean: the most awesome Benjamin Dewey of the wonderfully poignant Tragedy Series Tumblr today linked to City of the Dead Week 1 as a Halloween treat. I’m glad he did. City of the … Continue reading
Posted in blogs, City of the Dead, Comics, Digital Art, Review
Tagged Benjamin Dewey, City of the Dead, comic, Grace Allison, Halloween, Jeremy Colwell, Karl Kessel, Ron Randall, Thrillbent, Tragedy Series, web comic, zombies
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The Second Annual Serene Wombles
Two years! Woo-woo! Thanks for keeping with me. It’s been another hell of a year, and although Life Events have meant that I wasn’t able to review quite as much as I would have liked, you’ve stuck with me, and … Continue reading
Posted in A Dance With Dragons, A Game of Thrones, Awesome Things, Comics, Digital Art, Doctor Who, Dredd 3D, Game of Thrones, ISotHM's Birthday, Lee Pace, Misfits, Peter Dinklage, Prometheus, Real Life Fiction, Review, Reviewing through the Time Machine, Robocop, Romanitas, Romatically Apocalyptic, Rome Burning, Shakespeare, Sophia McDougall, Stephen King, superheroes, The Blazing World, The Dark Knight Rises, The Dark Tower, The Fades, The Glass Slipper, The Guild, The Hollow Crown, The Hunger Games, The Serene Wombles
Tagged Ben Whishaw, Dredd, Dredd 3D, Game of Thrones, Lee Pace, Lena Headey, Romanitas, Romantically Apocalyptic, Rome Burning, Sophia McDougall, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Drawing of the Three, The Glass Slipper, The Hollow Crown
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Review: The Amazing Spider-man
Title: The Amazing Spider-man Cinematic Release: 2012 Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, and Irrfan Khan Written by: James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, and Steve Kloves Directed by: Marc Webb There are two things … Continue reading
Save Romatically Apocalyptic!
Only just over a week ago I discovered this most unusual and high-quality of comics.But – woe is all of us! – Romantically Apocalyptic is in real danger of disappearing for an unknown period of time. Basically, the computer of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Awesome Things, Comics, Digital Art, Romatically Apocalyptic
Tagged fund drive, help, Romantically Apocalyptic, Support the Arts
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Stats: Gender in reviews
Warpcore SF has posted some really interesting stats regarding the balance of gender in the protagonists of the books she reviews. They suggest a persistent dominance of male protagonists in her reading, despite her own awareness of the problem. This … Continue reading
Review: Romantically Apocalyptic
It’s all got a bit comicsy in Womblevonia. I don’t think of myself as someone who reads a lot of webcomics, but these days, it seems I do, and slowly, by following links from one to another, I get introduced … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Awesome Things, Comics, Review, Romatically Apocalyptic
Tagged apocalypse, comic, comics, Romatically Apocalyptic
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Review: Real Life Fiction
I know I’ve been very lax around here. I hate popping up and apologising for the delay all the time – it feels messy – but RL has been hitting me like an extended metaphor. I’ve been considering putting up … Continue reading
Posted in Awesome Things, Comics, Real Life Fiction, Review
Tagged comics, Manicorn, Real Life Fiction
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