Your Deadshirt New Comics Shopping List for: July 30th, 2014

It’s Wednesday and that means new comics. Let Deadshirt steer your wallet in the right direction with reviews (with preview pages) of titles out today from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Boom! Studios, MonkeyBrain, Oni, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Action Lab and more! Fatale #24 Written by Ed Brubaker Read More …

Otheredbots: Windblade and the Issue of Gender Representation in The Transformers

 Female Autobots?  I thought they were extinct! – Shockwave, “The Search for Alpha Trion” (aired 1985) The problem began very early. Hasbro had enlisted Bob Budiansky, a prolific writer and editor at Marvel Comics, to provide profiles and backstory to a series of toys they Read More …

Deadshirt Is Listening… Laying In Bed, Staring Out Windows, Getting Nostalgic

Deadshirt Is Listening… Bringing you a rundown of our staff and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, alone in their rooms, etc. Dylan Roth is begrudgingly getting nostalgic Read More …

HunkWatch: The Personal #Brand of Hercules [Review]

This friday saw the release of Brett Ratner’s Hercules, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Rather than review the film on traditional merits, Deadshirters Haley Winters and Max Robinson decided to evaluate it on its most important metric: hunkiness. Spoilers below. Max: Wow, this was a Read More …

Dark Gable Presents… An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

Diversity and representation have long been a serious issue in the film industry, and 12 Years A Slave winning some Oscars hasn’t exactly changed that. Outside of that prestigious anomaly, people rarely imagine black film to be much more than gangster movies, cookout comedies, and Tyler Perry. Our very own Dominic Read More …

Deadshirt Is Reading… Magical Girls, Meta-tations on Old Superheroes and Sergio Aragones

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. For more of our thoughts on this week’s new comics, take a look at Wednesday’s Deadshirt Comics Shopping Read More …