Happiest Tuesday, Comic fans! Welcome to issue #27 of your favorite biweekly place to talk shop on comics and pop culture, the RVA Comics X-Change. This week we have a smaller, post-Labor-Day-lull edition of the exchange, but just enough to get us ready for fall....
Of Queer Eye, Old Navy, and Whitewashing
What really happened at a Philadelphia Old Navy store when Queer Eye taped an episode there? And were the Fab Five involved? We have questions. Let's begin with the facts. On August 21, the hit Netflix revival of Queer Eye taped an episode for their upcoming fifth...
RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 25
Good afternoon, comics fans! Welcome to our brand new, quarter fresh issue of RVA Comics X-Change. Twenty-Five issues in and we’re still hot off the presses and bringing you everything for your comic and nerdy needs every other week. This week we spoke to Alex Smith,...
Straight Pride Group Launches Attacks on Companies Refusing to Sponsor Its Offensive Parade
The companies, listed on the group's website as "potential sponsors," are demanding to have their logos removed. And the "straight pride parade" people are very upset about it. An organization insisting that straight people represent an oppressed and marginalized...
Netflix’s You Reminds Us That Men Can Be Creepy And Terrifying
The hit Netflix series frighteningly subverts a host of romantic-comedy cliches to bring us a powerful point: our culture needs to stop romanticizing abusive men. The TV series You, an adaptation of Caroline Kepnes's addicting 2014 novel of the same name, premiered on...
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