Merissa Aaron

Earlier this week, a mother came into the store with her daughter and two sons. As we chatted about comics, I mentioned UysFaber’s Girls’ Day Out event and encouraged her to attend with her children. She looked at me wide-eyed and responded, “Women do this too?”

It’s a question I’ve been asked fairly often recently, as I spread the word about the event. The only question I’ve received more often is “So, you actually read the comics?” This is usually followed by a mini-quiz of some sort to test the veracity of my response.

If you’ve read Greg Pak’s X-Men: Magneto Testament, then you know what an amazing story is woven into those pages. Carmine Di Giandomenico’s art is great, and is  so gut-wrenching when the story calls for it. It is essentially Magneto’s origin story but it is also a lot more than that. It is a tale of a Holocaust survivor and how the horrors he endured shaped him into the man known as the X-Men’s greatest foe.

If the first two issues of Red Skull Incarnate are any indication, this mini-series (also written by Pak) is destined to be just an amazing story.

Well, let’s dive right into Part Two of my list of the Ten Best of  Sci-Fi/ Supernatural Television shows!

6) Teen Wolf- Based on the  1985 Michael J. Fox movie of the same name, this series stars Tyler Posey as Scott McCall. McCall is a newly made werewolf struggling to adjust to his new identity, survive high school and weather the perils of teenage romance. The show is well-written and, for the most part,  well-acted. While I find Posey’s acting acceptable, Dylan O’Brien really stands out from the rest of his teenaged colleagues.

Avengers Academy is one of my favourite ongoing Avengers titles; second only to Avengers Children’s Crusade in my heart. The series is written by Christos Gage and features a main cast of newcomers (with the exception of Reptil, who can be found in Avengers: The Initiative) with more established characters in supporting roles.

While I do have a preference for certain art styles, I firmly believe that the most beautiful art in the world can’t save a bad story. The most important thing to me in team-centric comics is team chemistry.

If you’re not watching Britain’s ‘Misfits’, you are missing a great darkly comedic, sci-fi show. The show is based on a premise similar to that of NBC’s “Heroes”, ‘Misfits’ follows a group of 20-something British youth who’ve been sentenced to community service for various misdeeds. In the very first episode of the series, the group (two girls and three boys) is caught in a weird electrical storm and gain superpowers.

The main cast is comprised of Iwan Rheon as Simon Bellamy; Lauren Socha as Kelly; Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Curtis Donovan; Antonia Thomas as Alisha Bailey; and Robert