This panel was inspired by a piece comic writer and novel author Greg Rucka wrote for i09 and can be found here. But it seemed like a good topic to address at Geek Girl Con, so he took the stage with Susana Polo to talk about his article, his method of writing believable, realistic women, …
Geek Girl Con was so much fun, I don’t even know where to begin. Autumn and I have a zillion photos and reams of panel notes, and Autumn interviewed some ladies from NASA. So we’ll be posting our Con Converge as quickly as real life allows. (Damn real life!) This panel was proposed and moderated …
Mia Price is a lightning addict. As in, she’s addicted to being struck by lightning and has been hit seven times. Her body is covered in Lichenberg marks, which are red scars that look like lightning bolts, an effect of the lightning. The last time she was struck, her hair had been singed off. As …
Kathy Reichs is famous for her Temperance Brennan series, the one they adapted into the show Bones. It’s about a forensic anthropologist solving crimes using bones and smarts and some investigating. Reichs hereself is a forensic anthropologist and she pulls some of her plots from real life situations (although she changes them to suit the …
I think most of us have spent the past week absorbed in video games (Mass Effect 3 or Sims: Showtime), so it’s been quiet around these parts. Don’t worry, we’ve got a lot of good stuff on the horizon, including lots of Emerald City Comic Con coverage in three weeks. Now, onto the review: Out …
Verity Price loves ballroom dance so much, she’s moved to New York City to see if she can make it into a career, and works as a cocktail waitress to pay the bills. But as a Price girl, she’s also a cryptozoologist, a trained fighter, and a sworn protector of cryptids (monsters, ghouls, and the …
Thinking about the name Chicks With Crossbows, the first image that came to mind was a heroine that was some sort of a hybrid between stock characters in video games, fantasy novels, and action movies. I also thought of my mom who would occasionally do target practice in our backyard with her crossbow. Yes, you …
If you haven’t heard of Kyrax2, aka San Diego’s Batgirl, here’s the deal: She’s a fan of comics. This year at San Diego Comic Con, Kyrax2 went to many of the DC panels and asked questions about the lack of women both in the comics and on the panels themselves. This got various responses although …
I love Barbarella–the 1968 film starring Jane Fonda which was based on a number of French comic strips published in the early 60s. One of the local cinemas was playing it a couple of weeks ago and I decided to watch it for the second time as part of research for my series on female …
I want to be a female action hero. I came to this realization at work and promptly announced my new life goal to my coworkers. One of them suggested I follow in the footsteps of the Rain City Superheros–a group that runs around Seattle fighting crime dressed up like they are characters from a comic …
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