By Lisa Fary - Girl Comics #1 presents a dilemma. On the one hand, I want to support women working in comics by buying their products. On the other, I don’t want to support the product if it’s mediocre. Really,... (Continue reading)
I get the feeling that I’m intended to like Ball Peen Hammer because it’s, as stated on the cover, a “meditation on art and human nature,” a thought provoking discourse on what it means to be an artist at the... (Continue reading)
By Lisa Fary - More powerful than a pair of red patent leather boots, hotter than a habenero chili, and able to leap border fences in a single bound. Meet La Superica.... (Continue reading)
By Lisa Fary - I wanted something along the lines of Tina Fey as a superheroine (which Tina Fey is). What I got was Heidi Montag as a superheroine.... (Continue reading)
By Lisa Fary - For the longest time, the only comics I read were in the newspaper, where the readers were old and the strips featuring girls were pretty bad. What I wouldn’t have given for Nemi.... (Continue reading)
By Lisa Fary - After not going to the comic shop in about a month, I had a lot of girl stuff to catch up on: insane roommates, insane primates, and, of course, cancer.... (Continue reading)
AMC is seriously becoming my favorite cable channel. They have Mad Men, they’re bringing a new version of The Prisoner later this year. And now, they’ll be bringing The Walking Dead to television. AMC, thank god for you.... (Continue reading)
By Lisa Fary - Tallahassee, FL. 1993. Epitome Community Coffeemuseum. I sat on the couch with my cappuccino, critiquing the week’s selections from my short fiction workshop. Rolling my eyes at the tired cliches. Letting out long, pained sighs at... (Continue reading)
By Lisa Fary - It was a Match.com date with a guy named Greg. We arranged to meet at a coffee shop one night in Tucson. He was a good looking guy, but I could still go either way with... (Continue reading)
By Lisa Fary - I’d kinda like to see a Marvel Divas/ Gotham City Sirens crossover event. It would probably go something like this: The Divas would be at a fabulous lounge sipping lemondrop martinis, talking about relationships and cancer,... (Continue reading)