Critical Hits & Misses #302

• Cuz, you know, Hollywood sucks to work in for women, Amazon Studios executive Roy Price has resigned due to sexual harassment claims. The silver lining in all of this, however, is that the recent wave of visibility for victims of sexual abuse was made possible by the Weinstein scandal. May this result in justice for the victims, and in a better Hollywood all around. 


• Did you see the wonderful new trailer for Black Panther? If you didn't, you should. Go check it on Youtube, we'll wait. Okay, now check out this important Rolling Stones article on why black superheroes matter and why Black Panther is revolutionary. 

For today's musical hit, we have Bishop Briggs and "River"

Today's critical rolls: Happy Hump Day! How is your week going?


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Critical Hits & Misses #237

This is my "WTF, I'm disappointed in you" face

• In this searing blog post, Kisha Bertrand takes the admins of DragonCon's official facebook page to task for failing to clean up after a nasty racist, sexist, gross troll spewed all over the comments in a Black Panther thread. Shame on you, DragonCon!


• And today in Are You Freaking Serious sexist weather news, a new study suggests that female-named hurricanes statistically kill more people than male-named hurricanes because people don't respect them. Humanity, that is truly some next level sexism you got going there. 

For today's musical hit, we have XRay Spex and "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!"

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Critical Hits & Misses #115

• The New York Times discusses Ivanka Trump's dangerous form of "feminism" and how she's really just a huckster, selling us something that kind of looks like feminism but is really just about male power. 


• Ta-Nehisi Coates answers reader questions on his Black Panther series. He is asked about feminism in comics, and his answer is fabulous. 

For today's musical hit, Noah Cyrus and Labrinth perform "Make Me (Cry)."

Today's critical rolls: what are you favorite feminist moments in comics?


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Critical Hits and Misses #75

• Just when you think Black Panther's cast can't get any better, Angela Bassett gets announced as T'Challa's mother. E! News has the scoop! (Ivonne)


• The results for this year’s edition of the IFComp, the annual interactive fiction awards, are in. You can check out this year’s winners and the placement of other entries (58 total) at the awards’ main site, and a short summary of the top three picks at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. (Dominik)


• Stop me if you've heard this one before, especially if you're a comic book fan: one of the chief complaints leveled at the cast of Hamilton for their direct appeal to Vice-President-Elect Mike Pence is that they made the theater political. Which is hilarious when you consider what Hamilton is about. Or, if not hilarious, absolutely ridiculous. Katherine Brooks over at the Huffington Post talks about why this is notion is, historically, bullshit. (Critical Writ staff)

For today's musical hit, it's Panic! At the Disco cover by The Weekend/Daft Punk, on BBC's Live Lounge! (Ivonne)

Today's critical rolls:

What is your favourite political musical?

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