Happy holidays, VIZ fans! 2024 may be coming to a close, but I will probably continue to do this pubwatch until the heat death of the universe or I run out of spare time. Whichever comes first! This month we’re getting warm and cozy with some fluffy romance manga, as well as volume 3 of…
WWAC Reads Books! Fantasy Romance Edition
We’ve got a wide array of fantasy and romance for you all this time around, with an epic historical tearjerker and a thoughtful piece of progressive nonfiction to round things out!
Archie Comics Pubwatch: December 2024
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for December! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe with this month’s news. In December’s Pubwatch, Archie announces a facsimilie issue Kickstarter! Plus, plenty of new variant covers, and much more!
REVIEW: Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory is a Space Opera for Today
Humanity has lost a war with the majoda, an interplanetary association united by an artificial intelligence called the Wisdom. Earth has been destroyed, and a space station called Gaea now houses a remnant of humanity in a rigid militaristic society. Valkyr, teenage niece of the station’s commander in chief Aulus Jole, is waiting for her…
A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Mid Eighties!
In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, this month I read Archer’s Goon, The Skiver’s Guide, and Fire and Hemlock! I was especially excited to read The Skiver’s Guide, which I had never read before! And (so far) Archer’s Goon remains my favorite standalone of her work. It’s…
REVIEW: Marvel Zombies: Dawn of Decay is a Real Rotter
Marvel Zombies: Dawn of Decay is a surprisingly sad yet electrifying trip through a New York City that’s once again been taken over by zombified superheroes. Who will survive, what will be left of them, and will Groot be too traumatized to deal with the havoc to come?
VIZ Pubwatch November 2024
The unceasing march of time continues, and VIZ media continues to release cool new comics! This month we’re catching up on previously-reviewed series Hirayasumi and Trillion Game and introducing the buzzy new shojo manga Colette Decides to Die. But first, the news.
REVIEW: Joker: Folie à Deux: Arthur and Lee’s Bad Romance
In Joker: Folie à Deux, the long-awaited sequel to Todd Phillips’s Oscar-winning 2019 film Joker, failed comedian turned spree killer, Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), strikes up a romance with fellow Arkham Asylum inmate, Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga). Their relationship unfolds over the course of Arthur’s legal trial where the defense attempts to answer the question:…
Archie Pubwatch: November 2024
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for November! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe with this month’s news. In November’s Pubwatch, Archie announces their Free Comic Book Day offering and explains how facsimile issues work. Plus, plenty of new variant covers, and much more!
A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Early 1980s!
In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, this month I read The Magicians of Caprona, The Time of the Ghost, The Homeward Bounders, and Witch Week! This month’s reading was a roller coaster, as it included the book I consider the scariest of Diana Wynne Jones’s work, and…
REVIEW: Absolute Wonder Woman #1
Absolute Wonder Woman #1, set in an alternate dimension where DC Comics’ superheroes have all-new origin stories, reimagines Diana Prince. No longer a princess of paradise island Themyscira, Absolute Diana Prince is raised in literal Hell. Does that change the kind and generous being that Wonder Woman is?
REVIEW: Indulge In the Sinful Desires of Eisner Winning Somna: A Bedtime Story
San Diego Comic Con 2024 hosted the Eisner Awards, and Somna by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay won for Best New Series. DSTLRY, the publisher behind Somna, is a relatively new publisher, and they have being proudly advertising themselves as a “new era for comic books.” Somna proves this is exactly the case, catering to…
