Disney Investor Day 2020 and earlier chatter promise that Disney will be feeding us Star Wars stories for a long time to go. For newer Star Wars fans and those who have not ventured outside the films, this might seem to be overwhelming overkill, but it’s really not new for Star Wars. As Wookieepedia can…
REVIEW: The Dust Settles in Strange Academy #7
Spoiler Warning: discussion of major plot points occurs here. After facing off against a group of evil sorcerers, the students of Strange Academy regroup and Emily pleads for Doctor Strange to do something about Doyle after it appears he’s died in the fight.
Black Magic and Dark Secrets: Alexis Henderson’s The Year of the Witching
Immanuelle Moore is a teenage girl who lives in Bethel, a town gripped by an authoritarian religion. The Good Father of Bethel’s faith is opposed by a Dark Mother, a demonic figure associated with witchcraft and devilry. Immanuelle has been treated with suspicion from birth as her late mother, Miriam, was a witch. Yet she…
Igniting OMNI Volume 2: An Interview With Melody Cooper
Melting icecaps, raging wildfires and diseases,war—in the world of OMNI, the Earth has had enough. It’s responding to the constant onslaught humans inflict upon it by fighting back. Does one of those ways of fighting back involve granting abilities to certain people? In the first volume of the series, Dr. Cecelia Cobbins discovers her ability…
REVIEW: Excalibur #17 – Long Live The Queen!
I’ll admit, when I saw the cover to Excalibur #17 way back in the days of your (when the January solicits dropped), I was immediately hyped for the issue, because… QUEEN ELIZABETH BRADDOCK the third of her name. That excitement only increased with the end of X of Swords, and the last issue’s last page…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] She Who Must Be Obeyed: Wonder Woman’s Secret Origin as Victorian Villainess
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. Somewhere in a remote corner of the world is a land known to outsiders only in legend. It is a matriarchy, ruled for thousands of years by a queen who has…
Comics Academe: 7th Anniversary Retrospective
The first Comics Academe was published 7 years ago yesterday, on January 28th, 2014. Francesca Lyn was at the time a second-year doctoral student in the Media, Art, and Text program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and has since then graduated and become a well-known figure in comics studies and a mentor to other graduate students…
Last Week’s Episode: The Devil You Know
We’ve rolled into hopefully the most boring week of January (certainly yesterday was the quietest Wednesday, GameStocks aside), but that doesn’t mean there isn’t exciting news about casting, streaming, and more!
I Wish I Could’ve Given Everyone Hugh Madden’s Treasure Island for Christmas
Hugh Madden started cartooning his adaptation of Treasure Island on the eighteenth of March, early in the Irish Lockdown. As I write, he’s completed two hundred and twenty-seven pages, all free to read in one mega-thread on Twitter, and has covered everything up until Hawkins’ joining, under sufferance, Silver’s pirate gang now marooned on the…
DC PUBWATCH – January 2021 Edition
New year, and a slightly revised format! While I’m still going to grade everything that DC publishes in the month, I am cutting back on the capsule reviews a little bit, and just highlighting the books that I really think deserve it, for good or for bad. This month that includes The Dreaming: Waking Hours…
REVIEW: Hasbro’s Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Drizzt & Guenhwyvar
It turns out that one of the benefits of being a world-famous toy company with a leading edge in the toy market and ownership of the world’s most successful tabletop role-playing game is that you get to just…make action figures from that game!
