Comics

Excuse me as I lay all of the cards on the table here: a Netflix adaptation of the comic series Umbrella Academy,…

Your typical superhero comic hinges on a cleaving of the self. A godlike being can’t walk among mortals just as a…

Much like Michael Ian Black before him (earlier this day), Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” co-anchor Michael…

There have always been female fans of comics, even if the business hasn’t played to that audience very faithfully.…

Boundless, a new collection of stories by the Canadian cartoonist Jillian Tamaki, refracts the world into strange…

Despite the enthusiastic response to Netflix’s Jessica Jones—the whiskey-swigging, doesn’t-give-a-bag-of-dicks…

Okay, I figured out what I want to be for Halloween.

Listen, this is just a made up situation. Nectarinism is a recessive trait. In pollination, two parent peaches can…

When I came back to school at 29, after spending most of my twenties as a civilian, one thing I noticed was that…

First off, it is a truth universally acknowledged that the top entry in the Jenny Craig songbook is 1-800-97Jenny.…

Over at Esquire, Stephen Marche—who you may remember from that time he described one single Megan Fox eyebrow as…

Once upon a time, you could get your tales of love in several forms—paperback romances and rom-coms, sure, but also…

Despite the initial hue and cry from some quarters over Marvel's female Thor storyline, the issues themselves are…

"What is the clothes person you are most scared of becoming?" was the question. I can't remember how it came up,…

You have no idea how many times I have tried to draw myself naked.

In 2008, The New Yorker published a piece called "The Itch." It was about a woman who picked through the skin on her…

The toy aisle, as we've discussed many times, is so thoroughly divided by gender it's like walking onto the set of…

Over the weekend, New York Comic Con saw the usual crowd of geeks, nerds, cosplayers, and other pop culture…

Hey comics fans! This weekend at New York Comic Con, DC Comics announced a new Wonder Woman series, Wonder Woman…