Here at Slacker Heroes, we just loved Joss Whedon’s action-packed Avengers movie. And so did other fans and the public, leading to huge box office sales in the film’s opening week. The success of this opening has given a big boost to Marvel’s image and to the public’s interest in comics in general, as well as proving [...]
Note: this article will include discussion of artistic and thematic aspects of The Avengers movie, but no spoilers for the plot. For a full review of the film, check out Dan’s review here. And there came a day, a day unlike any other — a day when we finally got to see our favourite movie [...]
This week controversy about computer games has hit the news again, with the revelation that Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik spent a year of his life playing World of Warcraft. Newspapers have wondered if the “secret to the Norwegian massacre” lies in his obsession with games, some retailers are pulling games from the shelves following the [...]
Anathema is a new indie horror comic from author Rachel Deering. It tells the tale of Mercy, a woman from a medieval village who turns to dark powers to avenge the murder of her partner, Sarah. When puritanical village elders hunt down the couple in the night and kill Sarah as punishment for being with [...]
What does it mean to be a good person? What rules should we follow when trying to make a moral decision? What is the best way to interact with other people and our society? These are all questions of Ethics – a branch of philosophy that studies moral principles. As a philosophy student, I’m endlessly [...]
Meet the Fake Nerd Girl. She pretends to be into geeky hobbies so that guys will like her. She doesn’t really care about games, or comics, or programming, she just pretends for attention. Tara Brown at Forbes despairs over those like her: “Pretentious females who have labelled themselves as a “geek girl” [have] figured out that guys will pay a [...]
“I came to realize that Kenya was poor, not because of anything internal, but because the wealth produced by Kenyans ended in developing the western world.” - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.” – Frantz Fanon One [...]
This week Marvel teased us by releasing a promotional image for a new Captain Marvel title, beginning this summer and written by Kelly Sue DeConnick. Many different people (and one alien!) have held the title of Captain Marvel, but the rumour is that the new captain will be much-loved Carol Danvers. Previously known as Ms. [...]
Mass Effect 3 was released this week, much to the jubilation of fans everywhere. As the final part of a trilogy of action-RPG games by BioWare, the initial reviews have been generally positive and suggest that it meets the very high standards of the previous games. I’ve played the first few hours, and while I’m [...]
One of the surprises of DC’s recent output was the redesign of Power Girl’s costume. The tough, opinionated and forthright cousin of Superman, Power Girl is also famous for being amply endowed and showing off her assets in a revealing costume. But in the new World’s Finest book, she is shown in a new, somewhat [...]
The latest survey results from DC regarding the New 52 reboot make for interesting reading. The vast majority of the people surveyed (93%) were male, and this trend of low numbers of women purchasing comics is common. So perhaps then women just aren’t interested in comics? While I know plenty of people who would disagree, [...]
Too many comics, not enough time! We all know the feeling; there are so many great titles being produced that we’ll just never get around to reading them all. While I never find myself short of comics I want to read, I’ve noticed that I tend to stick to very familiar characters and titles. Even [...]