Yearly Archive:: 2021

It’s been a while since there was a book like this from DC Comics—a book that feels like it could have been published by Image Comics or another independent publisher. Based on its first issue, out this month, The Nice House on the Lake has the potential for the series to be a modern-age horror masterpiece…

The World Ends with You is one of my favorite games from the Nintendo DS era. It was the first game that I felt fully made use of the console’s namesake dual-screen technology: players swiped the stylus in various patterns to control protagonist Neku Sakuraba’s psychic attacks on the lower screen while…

If there’s one thing I’ve missed throughout the pandemic, it’s conventions. Conventions are a place I can be myself, wander around to meet like-minded individuals, and support creators. It was while pining for cons that I came across Con Quest! by Sam Maggs, a book aimed at middle-grade…

In the three-way Venn diagram of crafty, geeky, and LGBTQIA+, there is a magical center point at the intersection of all three. Keeping these hat-trick folx in mind, what better way to celebrate Pride this month than to assemble a sampling of Pride crafts, preferably of the geeky variety? I have organized…

It’s exciting to see the continued rise in vaccination rates and the community starting to come together safely across the United States and right here in Minnesota. But even as things return more and more to “normal,” there’s likely to be some residual reluctance to go spend time with…