Happy September! What comics are you reading lately? Every month, WWAC contributors share about the comics we’ve been especially enjoying. We have a packed list this month, with recommendations ranging from a delightful read for all-ages in Mega Princess, to newly revamped (sorry) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to chilling mystery in House of Penance. Let…
Aliens, Immigration, Race, and Assimilation in DC: The New Frontier
I love Darwyn Cooke’s DC: The New Frontier. I think it’s a love letter not just to the superhero genre, but also to its medium: the comic book, even though my 520-page 2016 paperback edition neither looks nor feels like a floppy when I pick it up to read. There is a sequence in The…
Holding You Accountable: Goyer, Mazin, and A Giant Green Porn Star
Earlier this week, during the taping of a live-audience podcast named Scriptnotes, screenwriter David S. Goyer (Man of Steel) sat and talked with a number of other screenwriters (Andrea Berloff, Stephen McFeely, and Christopher Markus, to be exact) and the podcast hosts, John August and Craig Mazin, about writing superhero movies. A major point of…