Want to Start Reading Comics? Dive In with These DC Digital Firsts
If you’ve been looking for a few good titles to get into comics, consider giving these three DC Comics “digital first” books a try.
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Tag: Batgirl
This Week With the GeekMoms
The GeekMoms this week dreamed of Hollywood, took online courses on comics and gender studies, went on spring break road trips, and made plans to see the Harlem Globetrotters!
Continue ReadingOur Top Comic Books from 2012
Welcome to our top comic books from 2012! We would like to share with you some of our favorite books / series from 2012. Hopefully, we can inspire you to check out some new titles, or revisit some old ones.
Continue ReadingGeekMom: Comic Book Corner — October 24th, 2012
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
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T-Shirt Halloween Costume Ideas
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and its not because of the candy. I LOVE to dress up in costumes. And even though I have two professional grade costumes in my arsenal of attire, I don’t wear either one of them on Hallows Eve. Instead, I like to find cheap and creative ways to dress up as whatever floats my boat at the time.
Continue ReadingGeekMom: Comic Book Corner — September 26th, 2012
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week. This week we take a look at Time Masters: Vanishing Point, Birds of Prey #0 as well as what’s on sale on Comixology this week.
Continue ReadingGeekMom: Comic Book Corner — September 19th, 2012
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
Continue ReadingAme-Comi Girls Series: Powergirl
Based off the sculptures of the same name, the Ame-Comi Girls series is re-writing some of the characters I’ve grown up loving. I started to see subtle changes in Wonder Woman and Batgirl’s issues, but after seeing what they’ve done to Powergirl, I’m convinced of what DC is doing; making this comic book series universe an all woman superhero team.
Continue ReadingGeekMom: Comic Book Corner — August 22nd, 2012
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
Continue ReadingA Look at DC Comics: Ame-Comi Girls Series
The Ame-Comi Girls Series is one of those that you need to read for pure fun. Don’t go in and expect continuity with the New 52 or any other series. Right off the back, you can tell from their costumes that these are not your mother’s superheroes.
Continue ReadingGeekMom: Comic Book Corner — July 4th, 2012
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
Continue ReadingWomen Write About Comics: Women in Refrigerators, 13 Years Later
As you may have noticed if you read GeekMom regularly, I’m a passionate reader of superhero comics and have been since I can remember. But, being a woman (d’uh), it’s impossible to miss the issues with the portrayal of female characters over the years. Nowhere was outrage more consolidated than in a site called Women […]
Continue Reading2011: A Year of Changes in Comics
It was an odd year for comics, especially superhero comics, as the way the stories were read became almost more important than the stories themselves. That’s because “pages” became much more of a concept than a reality as DC Comics, …
Continue ReadingThe Tipping Point: Geek Girls, Superheroes, and the DC Comics Reboot
Want to attract women? Publish good material that doesn’t actively chase them away.–Kurt Busiek, on Twitter, 10/24/2011 I have been a reader of superhero comics since I could read, buying them off the spinner rack for a quarter. My love for them was sealed when I watched (in reruns) the first appearance of Batgirl on […]
Continue ReadingThe Tipping Point: Geek Girls, Superheroes, and the DC Comics Reboot
Want to attract women? Publish good material that doesn’t actively chase them away.–Kurt Busiek, on Twitter, 10/24/2011 I have been a reader of superhero comics since I could read, buying them off the spinner rack for a quarter. My love …
Continue ReadingComics Spotlight on the DC Relaunch Titles, Part 2
In part one of the spotlight on DC’s relaunch titles, I picked the comics had hooked me into a “must buy.. Part 2 is about the titles that are somewhat off the beaten path, have my attention but could turn …
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