Boston, in my experience. It's a bookish town to start with, and there isn't nearly so much of an uncrossable line between Actual Literature and comics anymore—the Harvard Book Store, for example, always has a solid selection of comics in its staff picks section, with more than one employee's name to them. I saw…

That's a pretty shitty way of erasing the not-small number of people of color who have worked/are working for that site.

Can you name those examples?

Cartoonists like Spike Trotman, Mildred Louis, Gigi D.G., Taneka Slotts, Brittany Williams (mostly employed as an artist, but her online work reveals serious writing chops), or Christinas Stewart, perhaps.

This is a great piece. I think Trotman is a true visionary, and one the industry sorely needs.

Yes, let's pit every woman working in cape comics against each other for the crime of caring about how they're portrayed. I'm sure you've pit Kieron Gillen and Matt Fraction against each other for the same reasons. I'm sure you've accused Ales Kot of "wanting to be the next Steranko" because they both approach war…

"What about putting a female character front and center who is brave, smart, funny, who doesn't take shit from anybody, and is no one's damsel in distress?"

There is a very real difference, actually—One Direction is SIGNIFICANTLY more sexual than Lou Pearlman's creations, and that's an enormous part of their success. They curse, smoke, have tattoos and consciously DON'T dance in matching overalls, like Justin et al did: a veneer just as constructed, to be sure, but one…

"One Direction is a boyband for a generation of women who are afraid of sex."

" I've gone on about how wary I am of artists from the mainstream genre mill striking out and writing their own stuff,"

"Like many of Gillen's other books, it's intensely focused on a young woman of color to the extent that it ends up feeling exploitative and creepy."

Is…is Kuvira going to get the bomb?

I so entirely dislike every aspect of how the show has handled Theon/Ramsay/the Greyjoys in general at this point. The torture was gratuitous. The addition of Ramsay's murder girlfriend and their love of bloodplay just seems to be there to up the ***EDGYXXX*** quotient, when, uh, a murderous, rampaging psychopath who…

So…given Lion 2, what are we thinking? is Lion Rose Quartz? Or is s/he just like…a spirit emissary of Rose Quartz? A familiar of some sort? The pink, lushly maned design was enough to convince me the two are connected, but given Lion took Steven to what was clearly Rose Quartz's armory it seems pretty locked to me.…

I am so in love with this show's simplicity. It's set up great characters and an intriguing backstory—but it's not relentlessly PLOT PLOT PLOT. That's totally what I want sometimes, but I love stories that meander a little, that are content to just spend time with its cast. You need a hell of a strong cast to pull it…