In a lot of ways, Plunge represents the core of Hill House Comics. Limited miniseries offer creators a chance to tell contained stories and experiment, pushing the boundaries of what’s been done before; with a seasoned team like Stuart Immonen, Joe Hill, and colorist Dave Stewart, forging new territory isn’t…
Gene Luen Yang always preferred comic books to sports. As a child, he would lose himself in fantastic conflicts between costumed heroes and villains rather than subject himself to the ridicule of his peers on the playing field. For his latest First Second graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, Yang uses his primary interest to…
I’m a 31-year-old cis bisexual woman. I’m hetero-romantic and in a monogamish relationship with a man. We play with other people together. I’ve never liked giving blowjobs because I was taught that girls who give blowjobs are “sluts.” Phrases that are meant to be insulting like “You suck,” “Suck it,” “Go suck a dick,”…
The world of sports will always be political. A team becomes a symbol for an entire community, whether it’s a town’s local organization or a country’s athletic representatives at the Olympics. The competition expands beyond the playing field, and building a pastime around conflict between divided factions creates a…
Someone is out to murder Lois Lane, but she doesn’t want her Super-husband to worry about it. She’s got her right-hand woman, Renee “The Question” Montoya, to keep her safe and track down the killer, and a long list of superhero connections she can reach out to for more help. Greg Rucka and Mike Perkins’ Lois Lane…
Over the past 20 years, Ken Liu has been a software engineer at Microsoft, a corporate lawyer, the world’s foremost translator of Chinese science fiction into English, a pioneer of the “silkpunk” genre, a Star Wars novelist, and, somehow, on top of all that, one of the most prolific short story writers in science…
Samantha Irby, the bestselling author of the essay collections Meaty and We Are Never Meeting In Real Life, is usually celebrated for her candor and incisive humor. The founder of Bitches Gotta Eat sends up her own shortcomings with the same ease that she writes a withering deconstruction of social norms. So who…
There’s perhaps no living writer better at chronicling the most crucial emotional flash points of the young modern male than Teddy Wayne. The Love Song Of Jonny Valentine, his 2013 novel about a child pop star in the mold of Justin Bieber, took an empathetic look at the erosion of an in-demand pre-teen’s trust, while…
The cultural obsession with missing girls is nothing new, but Down The Hill: The Delphi Murders unravels the case of the Snapchat Murders in a uniquely startling way. The series investigates the deaths of Liberty German and Abigail Williams, two girls who went hiking in the woods on an unexpectedly warm winter day,…
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther run has had a fascinating evolution since beginning in 2016, with a shaky first year that saw Coates still acclimating to comic-book storytelling. Eventually he got the hang of writing a superhero book and the series significantly improved, taking a massive leap for the second volume…
June Branch is having a truly awful night. She survived a home invasion that resulted in escaped convicts abducting her boyfriend, and as she protects herself with an enchanted Viking hammer, she finds herself stuck with decapitated heads that won’t die. This is the supernatural crime plot of Hill House Comics’ Basketf…
I’m 20, straight, male, fit, and active. I masturbated prone—flat on my stomach—for years. I’ve now changed to a more traditional position (on my back or sitting upright), and I’m using my hand rather than grinding against a mattress. I can easily orgasm when I masturbate. I’ve had sex four times in my life, and I’m…
What do you do when you find out your entire life is a lie? Teenage Tilde thought she was just a regular farm girl, but in the new Image series, Tartarus, she discovers that she’s actually the daughter of a notorious warlord who terrorized the titular mining colony. Written by Johnnie Christmas with art by Jack T.…
Brenda Hernández Jaimes is the founder and host of Ellas podcast, which is devoted to fostering conversations with the inspiring Latinas paving the way for the next generation. Diana Cabuto, soon to be featured in the Netflix series Gentefied, was brought up in a female-centric Mexican household before moving to the…
Escape the villain, get the girl, complete the mission. It’s a pretty standard routine for secret agents in spy stories, especially if you’re a British stud with a license to kill. But the new Dark Horse Comics series, BANG!, doesn’t stick to the routine. Written by Matt Kindt with art by Wilfredo Torres, colorist…
The Guardians Of The Galaxy thought they would get a break after saving the universe for the bajillionth time, but there’s always a new threat waiting on the horizon, looking to seize control. Picking up on threads from last year’s excellent Avengers: No Road Home miniseries, the new Guardians Of The Galaxy series by…
As spring break approaches for the intrepid teens of Riverdale, so too does the apparent death of Jughead Jones—the (likely) red herring the show’s been setting up since the season three finale. And with sthe hocking climax of “The Ides Of March,” the disparate pieces of this season are finally starting to fall into…
If you’ve listened to any shows in Last Podcast Network’s roster, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the voices of Jackie Zebrowski, Natalie Jean, Holden McNeely, and Jake Young, hosts of Page 7 and Wizard And The Bruiser. After their live performance in Chicago last month, they stopped by The A.V. Club’s studio to…
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