Women of Marvel #1 is a fun, zingy journey through the Marvel universe via its many female characters. While some stories don’t sing as loudly as the others, the overall package is quite enjoyable.
REVIEW: I Love All the Spider-People in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse! (And the Story, Of Course)
Miles Morales/ Spider-Man (Shameik Moore) and Gwen Stacy/ Spider-Woman (Hailee Steinfeld) reunite in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to battle a new threat that threatens the multiverse. But this new villain is hellbent on making things personal.
[Patreon Exclusive] Youth in Crisis: Looking Back at Marvel’s Outlawed
Our Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. The superhero comic convention of the “event” story can be divided into two main categories. The first consists of cosmic-scale storylines like Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinity War, where worlds…
REVIEW: Champions #1
“The Champions have always been about standing up against what’s wrong. Standing up for people who can’t always stand up for themselves. And doing the work that the adult super hero community is too busy fighting among themselves to do,” says Ms. Marvel in Champions #1, an issue largely defined by infighting among the team’s…
Outlawed #1: Ballad of a Teenage Superhero
Outlawed #1, by Ewing, Jacinto, and Grundetjern, is an ambitious one-shot, meant to disrupt the status quo of the Marvel Universe. At least, the status quo for teen superheroes: superheroes whose superpowers don’t quite translate to systemic power.
Last Week’s Episode: Congratulations to These Men
This week has felt like a thousand years, but it’s my first iteration of this column so that’s exciting! Let’s get into it.
Race and Gender Roundtable: Part Two
Welcome to Part Two of our race and gender roundtable, where we talk about creators and authenticity, consumer threat levels, and the future of diversity in comics. You can catch up on Part One of the roundtable here.
Marvel Roundtable–part two
Mary Jane, Miles, and the diversity dance in comics. Megan Purdy In part one of WWAC’s Marvel Roundtable, I talked to Skalja of @#$% Yeah, Spider-Wife!, Corrina Lawson of Geek Mom, RonchRonchRonch, and webcomic creator Indigo, about romance, mental health, and motherhood. In part two, we talk about Superior Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, and more generally,…
News & Things: Too many rappers, not enough MCs
Megan Purdy Despite the shortened timeframe, I managed to find more than enough links to spam you with. My bad. Today we’re talking Hello Kitty, Amy Reeder, and Orson Scott NO. Kickstarter of the Week! NNN, by Dan Kim, is part comic, part puzzle, all awesome. Last year, NNN won an International Manga Awardfrom the…