The Saturday Edition - Dec 8, 2018
Fresh from your pals at themarysue.com
Pick up Ryan Wieser's The Shadow City for a sci-fi battle for the galaxy
with Jessop, the first woman to join the Hunters of Infinity, caught in the middle
—and when you're done devouring that, check out the rest of the female-focused BAMF titles from Kensington's Rebel Base.
TV, anime, Ghost in the Shell, Netflix

Netflix is Making An All-New Ghost in the Shell Anime Series

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Like its indefatigable heroine Major Motoko Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell continues to live on.
Big on the Internet, Betty White, Billy Eichner, Gritty, Jenifer Lewis, Oscars

The TMS Staff Talks Who We Want To Take Over as the Oscar Host For 2019

Gritty remains an icon on Twitter
Naturally, we at The Mary Sue have some serious opinions on this matter.
Big on the Internet, Amazon, women in comics

Amazon Is Adapting the Kickass Anti-Fridging Refrigerator Monologues

gwen stacy, fridge, fridging, death, refrigerator monologues, deadtown, amazon
Amazon has a new series in the works that aims to take on one of our least favorite tropes in existence: fridging.
Big on the Internet, Blumhouse Productions, female directors, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: Blumhouse Finally Hires a Female Director

laurie strode
May your weekend be less hellish than this week of terrible takes!
Big on the Internet, Beto O'Rourke, politics, Stacey Abrams

Why Doesn’t Stacey Abrams Have the Same 2020 Hype as Beto O’Rourke?

beto stacey abrams 2020
If we're going to talk about who gets celebrated as an "outsider," we can't ignore that that label most often and easily gets applied to people who look like insiders.
Big on the Internet, cbd oil, life elements, product reviews

What’s It Like Taking a Bath With a CBD Bath Bomb?

Life Elements Mercury in Retrograde CBD bath bomb
Here at The Mary Sue, we're sometimes sent samples and products to review, and one caught my eye—a special CBD oil-infused bath bomb created to wink at the astrological ups and downs of Mercury in Retrograde.
News, contributors, sexism, wage gap

Uncompensated Labor Imbalances Make the Gender Wage Gap Even Worse Than We Knew

hands tugging on money
Taking into account how the 80-cent statistic is derived from the salaries of men and women who work full-time, the IWPR found that because women are more likely to drop or be pushed out of the labor force by child-care needs and a range of other domestic demands, the gender wage gap is actually closer to 49 cents on the dollar for women.
Big on the Internet, TV, Charlie Cox, Daredevil, Netflix

Charlie Cox Confesses His Feelings on Daredevil’s Cancellation

Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock Daredevil
Actor Charlie Cox speaks on the news of 'Daredevil' being canceled: "It’s quite painful for quite a lot of people."
Movies, Avengers: Endgame, Steve Rogers

Rest in Peace, First Casualty of Avengers: Endgame: Steve Rogers’ Beard

captain america black widow
There are things in our lives that bring us such joy—a smile to our face when nothing else could seem to. That was Steve Rogers's beard. A man who has seen some things, Steve grew a beard to overcome the pain that was Captain America: Civil War and, with his break-up from Tony Stark, took it upon himself to let his beard grow and grow, onto his face and into our hearts.
Movies, Avengers: Endgame, Steve Rogers

Steve Rogers and the Sad Story About That Compass

Now that the trailer for Avengers: Endgame is out, everyone is starting to theorize what we're going to see in the fourth installment of the Avengers movies, one that postures itself as an ending. We've already talked about the reactions to the trailer on Twitter, but there was one that stabbed us in the heart and refused to let us live.
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