It’s Hard To Be A Girl Bach (creator), Nora Goldberg (translator) Soaring Penguin Press October 2015 I went to the launch for It’s Hard To Be A Girl in late October. The event was, in a word, delightful. Soaring Press organized a very nice evening, held at the Québec Government Office in London. It featured…
A Comic Con For All Seasons, All Year Through
2015 was an interesting year for me. As I said to several people: the highs were really high but the lows were really low. It was around a year ago when I was wondering whether I’d made a mistake doing what I was doing; it was around a year ago when I found myself crying…
W.W.A.Civil War: The Comic Edition
With the release of Captain America: Civil War trailer officially hitting our screens fan and viewer reactions have been mixed between the positive and negative. At WWAC our staff began discussing in detail about both the upcoming movie, and the 2006 Marvel Civil War comic event written by Mark Millar. The event pitted Captain America against Iron…
The Silent Lessons of Strange Fruit #2: A Review That Isn’t
Strange Fruit #2 J.G. Jones and Mark Waid (Authors), J.G. Jones (Artist), Deron Bennett (Letterer) BOOM! Studios October 4, 2015 Though Strange Fruit #1 was published in July, the BOOM! response to criticisms lodged about its racial insensitivity in the following weeks and months has been relative silence. I tried very hard not to blame them, as it’s a…
Television Comes to TIFF: TV at Film Festivals and the Possibility of a TV Festival That’s Good
This year the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will include a block of television programming and I think that’s weird. Its TV programming, Primetime, includes screenings of Casual (USA) from Jason Reitman, CROMO (Argentina) from Lucía Puenzo and Nicolás Puenzo, Keith Richards: Under the Influence (USA) from Morgan Neville, The Returned (France) from Fabrice Gobert,…
MAN PLUS: A Conversation/Review
MAN PLUS Titan Comics, July 8th André Lima Araújo, Arisa Rozegar, Luis Guerrero, Tom Williams Ghost in the Shell lifers J. A. Micheline and Claire Napier (that’s me!) discuss what was the first issue, but has since become just a section of Titan’s ongoing web release, of André Lima Araújo’s passion project Man Plus. Do they like it?…
5 Takes on Island #1
Island #1 Ed. Brandon Graham Image August 2015 How do you decide who reviews a comic when half your staff is reading it? You open a Google Doc and make it first come, first served.
Marvel Announces Hip-Hop Variants for October, Still Does Not Care About Black People
Yesterday, Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso announced that, for the month of October, Marvel will release variant covers paying homage to hip hop. These covers were designed to reflect the “ongoing dialogue” between Marvel and hip hop, and to “spotlight the seamless relationship between those two forces.” How nice, right? Seamless relationship! Ongoing dialogue! Hip hop! Marvel!…
Hey, Paris! Where To Buy Comics On Your Sophisticated, Continental Weekend Break
I was lucky enough to score a work trip to the south of France a few weeks ago and, naturally, I used the opportunity to nip up to Paris — and check out their major comics shops. I was staying with a friend whose flatmate is also into comics — French, Japanese, American, whatever. He…
The White Privilege, White Audacity, and White Priorities of STRANGE FRUIT #1
Strange Fruit #1 J.G. Jones and Mark Waid (Authors), J.G. Jones (Artist), Deron Bennett (Letterer) BOOM! Studios (July 2015) (This review contains some spoilers) Writing about Strange Fruit #1 has been a long time coming. It has been on my very-reluctant radar since it was announced on February 20th — Dwayne McDuffie’s birthday. For readers who are unaware, Dwayne McDuffie…
Bad Dads of Anime: Get Your Hate On Here {GIFS}
Well, some dads are good, and some dads are great. But some are terrible! Simply unacceptable! And some of those guys are in our favorite long-form cartoons. We’re here to tell you which animated patriarchs we hate and why. Six of the worst! Aren’t you excited? Dig right in!
Jurassic World Is Lazy, But You Knew That And Saw It Anyway, Didn’t You?
As I was sitting down in the cinema with trailers were going by, I thought, Man, some twenty-plus years since Jurassic Park and—wait, that’s not right. Because, lest we forget, not too soon after the first film in 1993 there was 1997’s Lost World: Jurassic Park, and then Jurassic Park III in 2001. I say ‘lest we forget,’…