In this time of global pandemic, there is much to be very seriously worried about, from unemployment to students struggling to homeschool, homelessness rates to the massive loss of human life. But it’s also relieving occasionally to take a break from worrying about all those deeply impactful issues to look at…

For too long, naturalistic coloring or the absence of color have been the norm for comics targeted to mainstream audiences. The crossover stars of the early graphic novel boom—Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine, Alison Bechdel—put out work that was either black and white or had a minimalist color palette,…

I’m a 38-year-old bi woman who has been sleeping with a married male coworker for the last eight months. We’re a walking cliché: I’m a nurse, he’s a doctor, and one night he ended up spilling a lot of personal information about his marriage to me (sexless, non-romantic, she might be a lesbian) before asking if he…

NetherRealm and WB’s Injustice is a franchise that should not work.

This unabashedly leftist 10-part retrospective on America’s violent compulsion to meddle in Iraq tags the second U.S. invasion in 2003 as the greatest crime of the 21st century. This episode, coming toward the end of the show’s run, tells the tale of two elections. Back at home George W. Bush secures reelection…

Sofia Coppola has said she might never have become a filmmaker if not for Jeffrey Eugenides’ first novel. Having read The Virgin Suicides (1993) on a recommendation from Thurston Moore, Coppola immediately connected with its depiction of suburban malaise and teenage desire. The film rights had already been bought and…

If there’s a silver lining to be found in our current moment of COVID-conscious digital drag, it’s that the art form now feels more accessible than ever. Not every town has a booming drag scene, but now many of the world’s best performers are just a click away, serving some wildly creative performances telegraphed…

I’m a gay guy who’s involved with a guy I met a few months before COVID-19 took off. He’s a great guy, smart, funny, hot, healthy, and easy to be around. It started as a hookup but we have chemistry on several levels and, without either of us having to say it, we started seeing each other regularly. We both live alone…

Together, Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have built a media empire out of their friendship. They’ve traded compliments and barbs for years on their YouTube series UNHhhh, have classed up Vice with The Trixie And Katya Show, and have even taken over Netflix’s YouTube channel from time to time with their reviews…

With Broadway dark until at least 2021 due to the pandemic, New Yorkers are experiencing the first summer in almost 60 years without The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare In The Park. Luckily, what might seem like a stumbling block was transformed into a serialized radio play so euphonious, it’s hard to believe the…

Many novels begin with death, the threat of it, or its consequences. Perhaps the best and most famous example is Gabriel García Márquez’s masterful novella, Chronicle Of A Death Foretold. “On the day they were going to kill him,” the opening goes, “Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the…

Three times over the course of Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster, the 23-year-old narrator is on the receiving end of a comment where someone tells her just what is wrong with her generation. First, it comes from her older lover, then an ex-boyfriend, then her lover’s wife. “‘Why does it have to be my generation?…

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,125,173-week series, Wiki Wormhole.

Catwoman #23 marks the arrival of the Sean Gordon Murphy-verse into primary DC canon, and the start is fairly rocky. The writer’s output in his “Murphy-verse” has thus far been focused on White Knight stories, which all began with an interesting premise and quickly declined in quality and cogency as the story…

The Zolas, the graphic novel debut for both writer Méliane Marcaggi and artist Alice Chemama, is a historical work about the relationship between a creator and his muse. The creator in question: esteemed 19th-century French writer Emile Zola—and the muse is his wife, Alexandrine Zola. Through its stunning art, which…

Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.

I’m a twenty-something more-or-less lesbian in an East Coast city. I’m primarily into women, and I’m only interested in relationships with women, but I’m sometimes attracted to men and have enjoyed sex with men in the past. For various reasons, I decided a few years ago not to pursue physical stuff with men anymore…

Sometimes it only takes a misunderstanding to change your life. Scullion: A Dishwasher’s Guide To Mistaken Identity is a new graphic novel for young readers written, drawn, and lettered by Jarad Greene. Set in a quasi-medieval world, the story takes place during a busy kingdom’s preparations for a royal wedding…

This is podcast studio QCODE’s steamiest, most sex-positive series yet. Demi Moore is perfect as Diana, a woman so bored of her carefully curated life and sexless marriage that she secretly starts a website to host recordings of other women’s erotic fantasies. Every episode features a different fantasy, titled with…

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,128,221-week series, Wiki Wormhole.