Mara Wood holds a Ph. D. in School Psychology. Currently, she works for a public school system assessing students for educational placement. Her research focus is comic books and how they can be used in therapy and educational settings. She tends to spend…

Star Wars Roundup: May 2015

It's my favorite time of the month: the time when I get to wax poetic about how amazing Star Wars is and all the cool things the comics are doing nowadays.  Before that, I do want to point out something to you, dear…

Star Wars Roundup: April

I love Star Wars.  I love nearly everything tied to Star Wars. And I want to share that love with you in the form of obsessively going through the Star Wars comics each month.  I wrote one post that summarizes the events from…

Manga Monday: GYO

Welcome back to Manga Monday, Talking Comics' column that introduces new manga readers to different manga series.  We're taking a look at a short horror series - GYO by Junji Ito. GYO was published in early 2000s…

Princess Leia #2 Review

Princess Leia #2 Story by Mark Waid Art by Terry and Rachel Dodson Article by Mara Wood As Evaan and Leia fly across the galaxy in search of recently orphaned Alderaanians, things are still tense.  It is apparent that Evaan…