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Badass Lesbian Latina Detective Renee Montoya is Coming to Your TV This Fall on “Gotham”

Detective Renee Montoya, along with the probably queer villain Harley Quinn, is one of the few characters created for Batman: The Animated Series that was popular and well-written enough to make the jump to the comics. Now she’s making another jump, this time back to TV, as she’ll be playing a prominent role in this fall’s new show Gotham, where she’ll be played by actress Victoria Cartegena.
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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes #5 May Be the Best One Yet!

by rory midhani
Ooo eee! Does Lumberjanes kick it up a notch this week or what? This was already one of my five favorite current comics, but with this issue, it shot to the very top of the list. This issue was funny, it was intense, the art was amazing, we saw some great relationship moments between the Janes and we got some really, really interesting looks into the deeper mythology of the…

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Warner Bros Working on a Supergirl TV Show; Here’s Who It Should Star

Warner Bros., the studio who owns the film and TV rights for DC Comics has announced that they are currently working on a TV show based around the female superhero Supergirl. According to the Hollywood Reporter, out television writer and producer Ali Adler is writing the script, Greg Berlanti is producing and Geoff Johns,a writer for DC Comics is expected to be involved. Although not much else…

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Drawn To Comics: Emily Carroll’s New Book “Through the Woods” Is the Perfect Spooky Fall Read

by rory midhani
I’ve talked about Emily Carroll’s comics before, but now that she has a book, I want to highlight her work again. And now that summer is coming to an end and Autumn is upon us, it seems like the perfect time to take a closer look at the delightfully macabre comics that Carroll has quickly become a master of. Her first book, Through the Woods, came out in July, and it is just…

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Drawn to Comics: Six Comics I’m Excited About for Fall 2014!

by rory midhani
With autumn approaching and summer coming to an end, many new comics are getting ready to start up. For this week’s Drawn to Comics, I’m going to highlight six titles that I’m excited to take a look at in the next few months. Some of these are completely new titles with brand new characters, some are new titles with existing characters and universes and others are changes in…

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Drawn to Comics: Meet the “Trans Girl Next Door!”

by rory midhani
Have you been searching all over the whole internet looking for a simple comic about a young trans woman going about her daily life? Well, have I got some good news for you! The comic Trans Girl Next Door shows and tells the story of a trans woman early on in her transition, through the journal comics of Kylie. Not only are these comics cute little stories, but at a trans woman…

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Drawn to Comics: Catching up with Supercakes!

by rory midhani
One of the very first comics I covered here for Drawn to Comics was a lovely series of just a couple short stories by writer and illustrator Kat Leyh about May Ai and Molly (or Mo) LeMarck, a couple who also happen to be superheroes who fight crime by the names Tank and Shift. This series, called Supercakes, is now collected on its own website with even more stories than there…

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11 Female Superheroes I Wish Marvel Would Make Movies About

by rory midhani
Watching Guardians of the Galaxy this past weekend was definitely a blast, but even as I was watching Zoe Saldana and Karen Gillankick total ass and look super amazing on the screen, I couldn’t help but think about what a wasted opportunity it was. I mean, if they’re going to go through the trouble of introducing the alien race the Kree (which is where the original Captain Marvel…

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San Diego Comic-Con 2014: “Mockingjay” Gets a Trailer! Mockingbird Joins “SHIELD!” “The Last of Us” Gets a Movie!

So, San Diego Comic-Con happened. That’s cool, right? Sadly, Marvel didn’t announce a Captain Marvel movie, DC didn’t announce that Wonder Woman (or even Harley Quinn or Poison Ivy) is canonically queer and Natalie Dormer did not ask me to marry her. Still, there was a lot of pretty cool news. So let’s check it out (and warning, there are slight spoilers throughout)!
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Taking a Look At the Eisner Winners and Wonder Woman’s New Movie Costume!

by rory midhani
Back in April I highlighted the women (and one non-binary person) who were nominated for Eisner Awards, which many see as the premiere American comic book awards. Well, the winners of those awards were announcedat San Diego Comic-Con recently and so I thought I’d go over them and point out some of my favorites. But wait! That’s not all that was announced at Comic-Con! We also got…

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“Painkiller Jane,” Woman-Directed Bisexual Woman Superhero Movie, Announced While Marvel and DC Twiddle Thumbs

In a time when both Marvel and DC seem to refuse to make movies starring female superheroes, it was announced today that the Soska Sisters will be directing a Painkiller Jane movie. This means that not only is there going to be a comic book superhero movie starring a woman, but that movie will be directed by two women and the character that the movie is about is a bisexual woman.
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New Thor Will be a Woman! 5 Other Heroines Who Have Taken Up a Man’s Title

by rory midhani
By now, plenty of you will probably have already heard this, but it bears repeating: starting this fall, Thor will be a woman. Marvel Comics announced on last Tuesday’s episode of the ABC daytime show The Viewthat the person we’ve known as Thor will soon become unworthy of both that title and his famous hammer, and both will be passed on to an as-of-now unnamed woman. Seeing as…

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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes #4 has Hipster Yetis, Friendship High-Fives and Archery

by rory midhani
Issue #4 of Lumberjanes, is in a lot of ways really takes the story to another leverl. So far we’ve seen the Lumberjanes fight “monsters of the week” that are all leading to something bigger, but we haven’t gotten the impression of a “Big Bad” villain or recurring character who isn’t someone we were introduced to in issue #1. That all changes in this issue.
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Drawn to Comics Takes a Look at My Feminist Pull List!

by rory midhani
This week I thought I’d light a fire, pour out some drinks and get up close and personal. Every week I talk about some of the great comics I get to read, and many (maybe all?) of the webcomics that I talk about are ones that I read every week. But there’s another aspect to my comic fandom that I don’t talk about as much on here, and that’s my weekly pull list. For those of you who…

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