November 17, 2013 Johanna Movie Reviews 3 comments

Night of the Comet (Blu-ray Review)

Night of the Comet is a 1984 horror comedy that’s still a lot of fun to watch now. The world is celebrating the approach of a comet with viewing parties and news coverage, but the stellar visitor brings death. Everyone either turns to dust, or if they were partially exposed, they become a zombie. (How timely!) We explore the new world with sisters Reggie (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Sam (Kelli Maroney) and a truck driver (Robert Beltran) they encounter at […]

November 16, 2013 Johanna Comic News Leave a comment

The Bunker Moves From Digital to Print

The Bunker, written by Joshua Hale Fialkov and illustrated by Joe Infurnari, launched on comiXology in August. Since a new issue has come out each month, there are now four installments, at 24 pages (or more) for $1.99 each. It’s a fascinating series, with the premise that five friends gets letters from the future prophesying a coming disaster that destroys the world. They’re about to bury a time capsule, but instead, they find an underground bunker, with notes from their […]

November 15, 2013 Johanna Comic News One comment

ComfyCon Holds an Online Webcomic Convention This Weekend

This weekend, starting at 4 PM Eastern, is ComfyCon! It’s an online webcomic convention with a number of live broadcast events. Check the schedule at the link to find out when you can watch Danielle Corsetto (Girls With Slingshots), Randy Milholland (Something*Positive), Spike Trotman (Iron Circus), Aaron Diaz (Dresden Codak), and others create comics, take questions from viewers, provide Kickstarter advice, and host tutorials. It’s a great way to celebrate webcomics without having to travel. Co-founder Corsetto has posted that […]

November 12, 2013 Johanna Digital Manga Reviews Leave a comment

Lies Are a Gentleman’s Manners

It’s odd reading a yaoi manga that’s set in the US among, as the book promotion has it, the “high-society set”. Seeing the fantasy interactions in a venue I know something about, though, makes the unrealistic reactions — as the two men kiss and fight and tease in high-drama style — all the more obvious, and thus all the more escapist. Lies Are a Gentleman’s Manners contains a set of stories about the same characters, revealing more of their motivations […]

November 11, 2013 Johanna Comic Book Films 3 comments

Man of Steel (Blu-ray Review)

Out tomorrow, November 12, on home video is Man of Steel, this summer’s Superman remake. I saw it for the first time this weekend on Blu-ray, and my first impression was that it looked very much like a modern superhero movie. Like many other films this summer, it had big-budget effects, a big plot with world-shattering potential impact, computer-generated fantasy environments, and big, noisy battles — but I was left with little sense of what made *this* story special. The […]

November 11, 2013 Johanna Art One comment

Melanie Gillman’s Comic About Brands of Colored Pencils

Why don’t more artists make comics about their art supplies? Because few of them have this interesting a story to tell about them. Melanie Gillman has created a comic called “Why I’m Breaking Up With Prismacolor” about using their brand of colored pencils. Melanie is known for gorgeous shaded pencil work, so the selection of the right tool is important, and apparently, the brand has changed since Melanie was using them as a kid, now putting out an inferior product. […]

November 10, 2013 Johanna Other Prose Leave a comment

The Snacking Dead

When I think zombies, I think the opposite of “yummy snacks”, but I suppose “eating brains” does suggest the munchies in some ways. The Snacking Dead by D.B. Walker is both a cookbook, focused on finger food and sandwiches (the kind of stuff I think of as “football food”), and a parody story of the zombie apocalypse. The recipes alternate with incidents in the life of Pam, a divorced woman trying to feed her two kids as the world collapses […]

November 10, 2013 Johanna TV News 6 comments

Marvel Announces Plans for Four Series on Netflix

Continuing the trend of original TV shows airing elsewhere than traditional television networks, Disney/Marvel announced plans to create live-action programming for Netflix. The four serialized shows will feature street-level, Hell’s Kitchen heroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage in at least 13 episodes each beginning in 2015. After “multiple years of original programming”, the four will come together in The Defenders, a “mini-series event” that will form them into a team. Netflix is also the “exclusive US subscription […]

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