You might have known one. You might have been one. Or you might only have heard about them as yet another mythic creature on the internet: the girls (and boys, and nonbinary folks) who were obsessed with all things equine. Highly imaginative and yet necessarily down to earth, these special individuals might have been a …
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor reads as a tall tale told around the campfire–or the equivalent of a campfire in near-future Ghana, a tablet playing a video of a campfire. In the story, a child named Fatima encounters a seed that falls from the sky, which makes her no longer feel ill from malaria, able …
Maybe because of the massive global pandemic, Star Wars: The High Republic slipped past my notice. But once The Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule was in my hands I was excited to escape a bit into a period of Star Wars I had no knowledge of. To be entirely upfront, I have not …
In this episode we dip our feet into the wackier side of the Marvel Universe, when it gets beat up by The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! Tony Stark (Iron Man) has found a strange device and wants Doreen and her friends to help him test it out. Things go badly when a group of animal-people show …
Sometimes a book is so good that you go look up whatever else the author has written and devour that, too. And then sometimes a book is so very, very good that when you learn the book is a debut, you nonetheless go find the press that published such an audacious novel and start planning …
This week we are joined by our good pal and popular podcaster Tim Lanning of The Pope Zone! (I think he does another show about dragons or something). He has joined us to discuss the original 2003 version of The Runaways. Runaways asks the question, “What if you found out your parents were super villains …
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey made me really consider that term: “the other woman.” Other. College English classes asked me to consider: who is the Other? And they made it a verb: to Other, to render something that could be taken in terms of its similarities and instead treating it only in terms of …
Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson is a novella set between Oathbringer, the third book of The Stormlight Archive, and the fourth, Rhythm of War. If you have not read Oathbringer, there will be spoilers for the previous books. You could read this on its own if you’re the type of intuitive reader to use context clues …
The Young Bucks, real names Matt and Nick Massie, known as Matt and Nick Jackson, are a professional wrestling tag team and executive vice presidents for All Elite Wrestling. Their book, Killing the Business: From Backyards to the Big Leagues, tells the story of their journey to become professional wrestlers from the stories of their …
American stories about people with powers often involve organizations and the general public getting swept up in their struggles. The government wants to use them! Scientists want to study them! The media will hound them! Those stories are always a bit fatiguing to me in their paranoia (not unjustified paranoia, but still), because in reality, …