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Swapna Krishna

Swapna is the Comics Editor at Book Riot. She's a Space Columnist for Paste Magazine and writes for Syfy Wire—Fangrrls, Tor.com, Bustle, and other sites. She co-hosts a podcast called Desi Geek Girls. You can find her incessant ramblings on Twitter at @skrishna. She lives outside Philadelphia.

Confession: BATMAN V SUPERMAN’s Reviews Make Me Sad

I was never looking forward to Batman v Superman. I don’t say that because it’s “cool” to hate on the movie, ...

A Step-By-Step Guide to Setting Up a Pull List

This post was originally published at Panels, our sister site about all things comics! Check out more from them here. ...

A Step-By-Step Guide to Setting Up a Pull List

I’ve talked before about how to set up a pull list (traditionally, a subscription service for comics that your local ...

What Do I Do at Comic-Cons?

A question I get surprisingly often from people new to comics or unfamiliar with comics culture is, “What do you ...

No Context Given: It’s the Grootvengers!

It’s the GROOTVENGERS! from Groot #2 by Jeff Loveness and Brian Kesinger (Marvel) (Find even more No Context Given here.)

No Context Given: Goddamn Hippies

There are no words for this reaction to seeing a young Clark Kent trying to fly. from Superman: American Alien #1 by ...

Kickstart This: Retrofit and The Pride

Retrofit Comics 2016 Have you heard of Retrofit Comics/Big Planet Comics? If you haven’t, you’re missing out on some of ...

New X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer!

A new X-Men: Apocalypse trailer is here. What do you think?

Facing Down a Reading Slump

This post was originally published at Panels, our sister site about all things comics! Check out more from them here. ...

Help, My Pull List Is a Towering Stack that Might Kill Me!

You know that feeling. It’s been a busy month, and things have been crazy. Maybe you’ve been traveling a lot ...