The Tarts take on the issue of Sexual Harassment in comics.

Wine and Cheese are a classic pairing. So is Wine and Cheezy Humor -- wherein I talk about the completely different treatment of wine in Magic Mike XXL.

So, I wrote a meta on the use of wine inMagic Mike.

Mad Max Fury Road is the other most feminist movie of 2015. It's hard to believe we're getting two this year, and it's delightful that they are both action-heavy genre movies full of no-punches-pulled meta. (For those who are wondering, the first most feminist movie is Jupiter Ascending ( Read more... )

We give Cece Bell's El Deafo the rating of Read This Or Die.

And I take a close look at Pierce Brown's dystopian SF story Red Rising.

The Tart Four take on Furious7

Tart Sheena puts Zenoscope's Robyn Hood #8 Under the Microscope and finds a cracking good read.

TV Diversity Part1: the 100In her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, cartoonist Alison Bechdel once observed that there are so few women in action movies that even one scene of two women saying something to each other about anything but a man is progressive. (This is referred to as "the Bechdel Test ( Read more... )

Tart Roz Young takes a heartfelt look at Charles Soule's run on She-Hulk
The current Marvel run of She-Hulk, written by Charles Soule and primarily illustrated by Javier Pulido, came to an end in January 2015. The twelfth and final issue wonderfully wrapped up the story arc Soule started and left me wanting more. The characters of this She-Hulk ( Read more... )

Tart Suzette has an interview with the creative team behind This One Summer which has earned a Caldecott honor, and Ignatz Award, a Printz Award, and the Governor General of Canada Award.