On New Year’s Day, the latest issue of the digital science fiction magazine Clarkesworld went live. The line-up included a mixture of established talents and new names; in the latter category was Isabel Fall, who contributed a story entitled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter.” Isabell Fall’s piece was available on the website for…
Casting Call: Why a Mixed-Race Kate Bishop in Hawkeye Makes Sense
When I saw that Hailee Steinfield was the frontrunner to play Kate Bishop in Disney+’s Hawkeye, I messaged everyone I knew about it. Finally, someone like me was going to play an Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) hero: a mixed race Filipinx person who fell into the “ambiguously brown” category. While my excitement was not universal…
Random Conclusions We Want to See in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The highly anticipated conclusion to the new Star Wars trilogy is upon us! We at WWAC are all excited (and apprehensive) for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—with reason. There’s plenty of expectation for this final instalment—after all, it is meant to wrap up the entire Skywalker saga, spanning three trilogies.
Batwoman’s Julia Pennyworth Casting is All Wrong
In episode seven of Batwoman, ‘Tell Me The Truth,’ viewers were introduced to Julia Pennyworth (Christina Wolfe), Kate Kane’s (Ruby Rose) mentor and Alfred Pennyworth’s daughter.
Four-Colour Faves: Jackie Brown presents Mister Sinister
Whether he’s messing around in the Summers gene pool, or messing around in, well, the entire mutant population’s gene pool, Mister Sinister — nee Nathaniel Essex — is one of the most enigmatic villains the X-Men have ever faced. He’s always got something up his sleeve, and that’s just a small part of his charm….
The Performative Horniness of Dawn of X
Adjoining bedrooms. That was all it took for the X-Men’s most infamous love triangle to suddenly become a canon poly triad in the minds of fans everywhere. Elsewhere in the same issue, we bore witness to Corsair’s partner hitting on Rachel Summers, his granddaughter, another character generally accepted as queer despite only the most subtextual…
Con Diary: Thought Bubble 2019
This year was to be only my second time attending Thought Bubble, the first two years ago and, having missed 2018 as it was the weekend after my wedding. As much as I was tempted to bring my wedding dress and get a second wear of that puppy at the mid-con party, I opted for…
Marvel Comics Pubwatch: November
Welcome to the November Marvel Pubwatch, and my first review piece for WWAC! Real excited to get down to business with some news and reviews.
Homestuck Part Deux: Thoughts on the Sequel to a Spectacle
What is a Homestuck, exactly? On the most basic level, it’s a long-running webcomic about kids playing video games and forming friendships amidst the apocalypse. It’s a phenomenon that took the internet by storm, inspiring such depths of fandom that the size and enthusiasm of its followers became a meme (“Let me tell you about…
X-Men Book Club: Justice for Madelyne Pryor
Madelyne Pryor first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #168 as a seemingly normal woman who bore an uncanny (ha) resemblance to the dead X-Man Jean Grey. Jean’s lover Cyclops rushed to marry Madelyne and had a child with her, but abandoned them both when Jean returned from the dead. Madelyne allied herself with the X-Men for…
Adoption Papers for Rahne Sinclair
New Mutants #1, in addition to being a great issue in its own right, had a very important highlight: like other mutants, Rahne Sinclair is alive again. That brings us to an important point of discussion regarding her: She’s ours now. By ‘ours’, of course, I mean that she belongs to trans people. You may…
Breaking In! With Daredevil #261
Daredevil #261 Ann Nocenti (writer), John Romita Jr. (penciler), Joe Rosen (letterer), Al Williamson (inker), and Greg Wright (colourist) Marvel Comics December 1988 Before I watched any of the Daredevil Netflix show, I knew two things about Matt Murdock from my comic friends. First, at one point in time he fights a vacuum cleaner, and second, he…