“It’s an interesting thing. An ending.”
REVIEW: X-Men #20 – Burning Hearts
The future looms as Nimrod awakens! Unfortunately for Orchis, Mystique has annihilation on her mind in the penultimate issue of Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men.
REVIEW: Army of the Dead – Face it, Zombie Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot
Invoking the late icon with sequined jumpsuits and sculpted waves of black hair, Elvis impersonators are already the walking dead—Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead only takes the extra step of turning them into flesh-eating zombies. Parachuting onto Netflix after a limited theatrical release, Snyder’s exhilarating return to the zombie genre turns the hedonistic joy…
REVIEW: X-Men #19 – Days of Future, Passed
The City inside the Vault is, at its core, a paradox. As the name suggests, its very existence is an enigma: simultaneously infinite and claustrophobic, it appears post-apocalyptically empty but hides a deadly enemy around every corner. The “genesis tomb” of the Children of the Vault, superpowered post-humans genetically designed for world domination, the City…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Wild, Weird Writing: Charlotte Brontë, Welcome to Die
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Brussels, 1892. In a second hand book stall, a professor finds the leather-bound manuscript of High Life in Verdopolis, a novella set in the fantastic kingdom of Glass Town imagined by…
WWAC Reads!
If you’d like a reading recommendation of any kind, WWAC has your back. Here at WWAC, our recent voracious reading has been varied. Lots of us have been cozying up with recent celebrated speculative fiction, WWAC Boss Publisher Wendy Browne has been delving into nonfiction, and I recently read an exciting Young Adult novel that…
REVIEW: X-Men #18 – Enter Lockdown
“From this point forward, you cannot depend on time to function in any manner resembling normal. It waxes and wanes, like temporal tides.”
REVIEW: Eternals #2 – Ikaris Burning an Eternal Flame
Ikaris versus Thanos! Eternal versus Titan! Thrill as the most formidable fists in the galaxy punch through time and space, bruising reality itself!
REVIEW: Eternals #1 – The Eternal Question
In the beginning, he is born inside a coffin. Golden and godlike, Ikaris rises to do what must be done. He is both new and very, very old. He is an Eternal. The Eternals were all dead. Long live the Eternals.
REVIEW: X-Men #16 – Reunited? It Doesn’t Feel So Good
“What are we going to do with thirteen X-Men?” – Angel, Giant-Size X-Men #1
Best Small Press, Indies, & Webcomics of 2020!
This 2020 was tough for me as an indie comics reader because, well, there were no cons for me to pick up wares! No zinefests or the pleasure of perusing the indie racks at my local comic shop. Luckily, there were virtual fests and cons for me to find some good books, and Webtoons are…
WWAC’s Best Big Press Comics of 2020!
2020 was a turbulent year for the comics industry, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting publishing schedules and closing direct market shops (sometimes permanently). Despite this chaos, a slew of excellent comics were published this year, from fantastic first issues to well-earned (if heartbreaking) endings. Selected by our contributors and featuring heroes, humor, and horror, these…