It’s hourly comics day! As I write this, day-of on February 1, 2021, there’s an absolute blizzard on in Brooklyn and I’m watching a superintendent across the street blast a parked car with snow from a snowblower (it’s probably fine). Hourly comics day falls on a Monday this year, during our, uh, 11th month of…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: February 2021
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of February! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock ‘lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, a passel of new variant covers are on the horizon, South Side Serpent merch is at hand, and more new series…
REVIEW: The Girls Are All So Nice Here
Our reign was short and bloody. What came after it was worse. When an email arrives in Ambrosia “Amb” Wellington’s inbox, she deletes it immediately. It’s from her Alumni committee, inviting her to a ten-year reunion, but Amb does not want to go. Then strange notes start to arrive. Something VERY BAD occurred when Amb…
REVIEW: King in Black: Marauders #1 Battens Down the Hatches
I could have sworn Emma Frost was just planning a party while Kate Pryde sorted out the bad guys in Madripoor but suddenly we are off to save symbiote Storm and Cyclops in King in Black: Marauders #1? This is what I get for being too busy to pay enough attention to mainstream comics lately….
REVIEW: X-Factor #7- Daken Vs. Morrigan
The investigation into Siryn’s death continues and sees its first stumble as Lorna is hypnotized to interfere as much as possible in X-Factor #7. What comes next?
REVIEW: Hellions #9 – This Fucking Guy… Again
Back in December, I wrote about how some characters just stick in your craw. You love to hate them. They’re absolutely vile, but you love when they show up, because goddamn, the story is going to be good. They’re going to do something absolutely wretched and it’s going to be a blast. That month I…
Previously on Comics: It’s Ur Birthday
The most important news of this past week is that it was our EiC, Nola’s birthday. Nothing else really matters. Okay, I guess there was some other stuff too:
Breaking In! With Uncanny X-Men #203
I don’t love the X-Men. This is partly because I started reading superhero comics when they were neither front nor center, in that little window when the Inhumans were a big thing, and it’s partly because mutants and the creators working on their books remain—in 2021—predominantly white. The latter is often forgiven in light of…
Last Week’s Episode: Golden Glooms
January’s over and, weirdly, nothing super wild happened yesterday so maybe the 2021 Wednesday curse is broken? We’ll see I guess, though the slate of Golden Globe nominees could count since basically everyone was surprised by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s choices. The awards ceremony will be held bicoastally this year, with Tina Fey and…
REVIEW: Cream Maid Is a Curious Cat
Cream Maid is the story of a loving couple, Honey and Darling, and their adventures raising a cat known as Cream Maid. Each chapter (thus far) plays out in a formulaic manner — Cream Maid gets in trouble and is lectured, Cream Maid gets upset, and then there’s a touching resolution between the cat and…
REVIEW – Magic Blooms in the Desert in Killjoys: National Anthem #4
Mike Milligram and the rest of the former Killjoys are still on the run in issue #4 of National Anthem. Speeding through a fast-paced desert of violence, intrigue and even magic, the Killjoys are back and the world just won’t let them have a rest…
REVIEW: New Mutants #15 – Passages to Krakoa
New Mutants continues to pick at the seams that hold Krakoa together in #15. The issue is titled, “Out of the Shadows,” but it’s questionable what is actually being exposed here—the motivations of some young mutants, or the limitations of the current resurrection protocols?