Results for: comics
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DC Comics Gets More Diverse; the New Power Girl is a Black Teenage Supergenius
Her name is Tanya Spears and she’s here to be smarter, stronger and cooler than all your favs!
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San Diego Comic-Con 2014: “Mockingjay” Gets a Trailer! Mockingbird Joins “SHIELD!” “The Last of Us” Gets a Movie!
San Diego Comic-Con 2014 just happened! Here’s all the news that’s relevant to your life!
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Three Cheers For Women of Color In Comics! But Can We Please See More Of Them On Screen?
Marvel and DC Comics added some much needed diversity by debuting a teenage Muslim girl from New Jersey as Ms. Marvel and a new First Nations superhero. But where are the women of color on screen?
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Archie Comics Gets Its First Gay Kiss, Takes On One Million Moms
Which isn’t a big deal, but also totally is.
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Highlights of Comic-Con 2013: Queer Geeks and Cute Ladies in Costumes
Need-to-know, queer-ish highlights from the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con. Because nerds.
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“Fake Gamer Girls” Make Up 48% of Gamers, Play More Video Games Than Teenage Boys
A new survey shows that adult women are one of the largest demographics when it comes to who plays video games.
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Batwoman Creative Team Quits After DC Editors Prohibit Planned Lesbian Marriage
“With their decision to prohibit not only Batwoman’s marriage, but also several other character developments, it seems like DC has gone too far.”
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DC Hires an Openly Gay Writer for Batwoman to Appease Audiences
Its certainly been one hell of a week for DC’s PR team. (Emphasis on hell.)
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A Lady Doctor Who, And Some Other Hopes and Dreams
The show began airing in 1963, with a hiatus and then a reboot in 2005. All in all, 11 actors have played the alien of everyone’s dreams. Every single one of those 11 actors has been a white man. (Also, as River Song says, spoilers).
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How Sailor Moon Made Me A Feminist: An Ode to Magical Girl Shows
Maybe it’s the influence of Sailor Moon that is part of what made me a feminist, someone who didn’t think that being a girl was a weakness but was, in fact, a special kind of power.
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New X-Men Relaunch Will Feature an All Women Team, Albeit Still Drawn By Men
Jubilee is heading up a female superhero team. Yay!
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Batwoman is a Lesbian: DC Comics’ Gay Superheroes Stepping Out of the Subtext and Into the Light
DC Comics announced last June that they were starting fresh. The Advocate interviews DC Co-Publisher about precisely how gay this fresh start is gonna be.
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Birds of Prey Reboot Features Potential Lesbian, Is Also Potentially Problematic
DC’s comic book series, “Birds of Prey,” has a hard-hitting, whiskey-swilling, Betty Page-lookalike who miiiight also be a lesbian. WHAT.
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Let’s Talk About Lesbian Batwoman Some More
Earlier this week we published one opinion on DC Comics’ lesbian Batwoman reboot; now here’s a different perspective!
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PAX East 2010: We Survived, Rejoice!
Autostraddle goes to mega gaming expo PAX East 2010 and lives to tell the tale!