Alex Abad-Santos

After a wave of criticism, Marvel, the artist who drew the cover, and the comic’s writer have finally responded. And not all of them seem to be on the same page.

It’s hard to think of a time when Beyoncé wasn’t dominating pop music. But there was indeed a time. In fact, it was 2003, when The New York Times, in a review of Bey’s Dangerously in Love and Ashanti’s Chapter II, thought Ashanti was the better bet.

True Blood thought it was being simple and lazy when, actually, it was being perfect.

In honor of the VMAs, Beyoncé‘s career, and the insane (and sometimes hilarious) conspiracy theories that have haunted America’s biggest celebrity:

This cover is not what we were expecting from a company that has made the effort to show that it’s being thoughtful about its female readership and its female superheroes.

If our pop stars aren’t singing their own music, and not even dancing to the music they’re not singing, then what’s left? Is this the direction pop music is headed in?

Movies haven’t always been great at depicting things like texting, Tweeting, and social media. But they’re getting better.

Sure Mo’ne Davis throws like a girl. But if the boys she struck out in the Little League World Series could throw faster, they could too.