I have professed my deep and abiding love for Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel before. Volumes 7 and 8 are why we read comic books. These volumes are what we’ve been growing towards. These are the issues in which Kamala faces the evils in our society, the ones that can’t be entirely super heroed away. This is the dark third act when it looks like everything is lost. After the events during Civil War, Ms. Marvel is on her own and no longer universally loved […]
Alpha Hero to Alpha Feminist
The Day of The Duchess made it on to Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best romances of the year list. It’s also notable because MacLean tore up an earlier version and rewrote her hero, Malcom, Duke of Haven, in response to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. I’ve linked to the piece she wrote explaining that, but if you aren’t a Washington Post subscriber, I pasted most of the text below. This is a second chance at love story. Malcolm and Seraphina […]
What I feel is relief. It wasn’t me.
Welp, I just picked up The Handmaid’s Tale this afternoon, and finished it in one sitting. Not because I couldn’t put it down, but because I absolutely refused to stop, let it percolate, and dare to wonder at what could be coming. Honestly, it’s too believable. I knew that it would be; you can’t avoid talk of the story these days. But it’s strikingly real, and for that reason, downright horrifying. I never caught myself picking apart the believability, or the potential. This is dystopian fiction […]