Review: ‘Monsters in Manhattan’ by Daniel Jude Miller
Monsters in Manhattan is creepy-cute adorableness: a kids eye view of Manhattan with a monstrous twist.
Continue ReadingMonsters in Manhattan is creepy-cute adorableness: a kids eye view of Manhattan with a monstrous twist.
Continue ReadingIf you have questions, ask. If you need help, tell someone. If someone asks you for help? Listen. Be compassionate. Believe. And never doubt that a single word can save a life.
Continue ReadingSometimes, one should donate to charity without expectation of reward because it’s a nice thing to do. But if you’re buying notebooks anyway, consider Write Notepads & Co.; you might just change a kid’s life.
Continue ReadingChaos isn’t the answer. Well, not in the real world anyway…
Continue ReadingThe Marvel Cinematic Universe is a complicated place, and it’s a little hard to know how, say, Iron Man connects to Daredevil. We’re here to help, and we brought a color-coded diagram!
Continue ReadingWonder Woman: Earth One is a deceptively challenging book so if you’re in this comic thing for the funny pages or the action heavy punch outs, this probably isn’t the graphic novel for you. Though there is some fantastic punching. Also, battle kangaroos.
Continue ReadingI tell my kids all the time the world would be a very boring place if everyone were the same. And I truly believe that. They do too.
Continue ReadingYou may get burned. You may end up with some scars. But the world will be a better place for your effort.
And for you.
You can do better, DC. We deserve better.
Continue ReadingMorality is a tricky subject. It is also, to an extent, a subjective one, though here, in the Western World, the majority of us, regardless of religion, are guided by a few essential commandments and a purported (I said purported) penchant for law and order.
Continue ReadingHere’s why everyone who has a partner, a loved one, a friend who has recently had a baby needs to read issue #5 of the new ‘Spider-Woman.’
Continue ReadingMy life is loud. Two kids, two cats, a husband with ADHD. I live, by choice, in a city. I work in an office far too small for the number of people who share it under a parking garage with thin walls where the phone rings ALL. DAY.
Continue ReadingThe kids think ‘Space Match’ is better than TV. Which in and of itself makes it worthy.
Continue ReadingShiri interviews the author of the Genrenauts series, about a group of storytellers that travel between dimensions, each the source and home of a narrative genre (Western, Romance, etc.), to find and fix broken stories. Because if they fail, the damage from those broken stories ripples over and causes disaster on earth.
Continue ReadingWhat the intense and powerful moment in the short life of a kid already scarred by pain and war who chooses between what feels right and what is right can teach our own kids.
Continue ReadingYou ready for Shiri to lay the science down about Magic Shell?
Continue ReadingThe love that develops between Wade and Vanessa is a, example of the much more rare later sort of love. Hold on, hold on, bear with me here. Is it a parody? Absolutely. And an extreme one at that. But Wade and Vanessa’s relationship is all the most moving for being achievable. For being honest. For being equal.
Continue ReadingNo one puts Peggy Carter in a love tri… oh. Wait. Oh, yeah, they went there didn’t they? Ugh.
Continue ReadingHow do we reprogram? How do we change? How do we evolve? Can we?
Continue ReadingSometimes, when kids don’t want to do something, when they don’t want to be something, there’s a damn good reason.
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