Comics Academe: How Do You Teach Comics?
- Comics, Comics Academe, Essays
- September 12, 2014
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Tokyo Tarareba Girls: A Love Letter To My What-If Women and Third Places
- Essays
- August 7, 2020
I didn’t know where to start this piece. I am overwhelmed and tired all the time. But through the quarantine there has been Tokyo Tarareba Girls (TTG) by Akiko Higashimura. From its first full page, TTG was a shock. The banner congratulating Tokyo for hosting the 2020 Olympic Games was such a rude reminder of
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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Bakuman Is a Comic about Death Note
- Essays
- August 7, 2020
In 2003, writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata collaborated for the first time on a manga called Death Note, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2003 to 2006. Death Note was a huge hit across demographics, later turned into an anime, stage play, and multiple live action adaptations. This article will discuss the manga
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Last Week’s Episode: Lovers & Losers
- News, Television and Film
- August 6, 2020
We’re hard-pressed for good news in these trying times, so we’ll take what we can get. This week’s entertainment news has been mostly uplifting, though not without some… questionable decisions. Let’s get into it.
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Spotlight on Nadia Shammas
- Indie & Small Press
- August 6, 2020
Recently announced as the writer of a Ms. Marvel graphic novel to be published by Scholastic, Nadia Shammas might be a new name to some of you, but she isn’t new to comics. A former Marvel intern, Shammas edited CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments (which was covered by WWAC here and here), co-wrote
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REVIEW: Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex #1 is All Style, No Substance
- Reviews
- August 5, 2020
Under the pen of Rod Reis, Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex is a beautiful comic. But that’s really…all it is.
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REVIEW: Queer Eye For the Mutant Guy: X-Factor #1
- Reviews
- August 5, 2020
Leah Williams and David Baldeon’s X-Factor #1 marks the newest title in Marvel’s ever-growing Dawn of X lineup. The new team addresses some of the strange wrinkles of Krakoan society, namely the minutiae and bureaucracy of mutant resurrection. This week’s oversized first issue is the classic getting-the-team-together story, but it delivers more than enough personality
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REVIEW: Bad Mother #1 Taps Into a Parent’s Worst Nightmare
- Reviews
- August 5, 2020
We know what Liam Neeson is capable of if you mess with his teenage daughter, but what about a middle-aged suburbanite mom whose dreary life is circling the drain? Better yet, what if her daughter gets to have a say in her own role as damsel in distress?
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REVIEW: X-Men #10: The Flame and the Flower
- Reviews
- August 4, 2020
“He has fire within him…”
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REVIEW: Cable #2 Provides A First-Page Stinger
I mentioned last time that Cable had been among my lowest expectations for the current line of X-Books, and how happy I was to be surprised. While the second issue feels a little slight in comparison, it’s got some really, really gratifying moments.
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IDW Pubwatch August 2020
- Pubwatch
- August 4, 2020
Welcome to the IDW Pubwatch. The world is still mostly on lockdown but here’s something to distract you: a few exciting comics that will occupy your mind, at least for a little while. I’ve also got the latest news coming out of IDW, along with comic book reviews—including Snake Eyes: Dead Games #1—and a selection
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ComicCon@Home: My First SDCC Experience Was Not What I Had Planned
- Con Diaries
- August 4, 2020
I’ve been a geek longer than I’ve known about comic conventions, but the moment I learned that spaces existed where people who liked the things I liked could hang out, I’ve wanted to be there. And ever since I learned about SDCC, I’ve been hoping to get there.
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REVIEW: Empyre: X-Men #1 Brings the Weed Whacker
- Comics, Reviews, Roundtables
- August 3, 2020
The Cotati are on Earth! Worse than that: they’re on Genosha! Somehow this all leads to [Alien] Plants versus [Mutant] Zombies versus Old Ladies, and with a three-way fight like that, we need three writers to review Empyre: X-Men #1!
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INTERVIEW: Maurice Broaddus on Sorcerers and Afrofuturism
- Interviews
- August 3, 2020
Like so many children from marginalized groups, Maurice Broaddus wanted to see himself in the media that he saw on the screen or in the books he read He wanted to be able to see people who looked like him shaping the future, whether it be commanding starships or wielding magic. Like so many of
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2020 Hugo Awards Reflect Struggle Over History
- Bookmarked
- August 3, 2020
The weekend saw the presentation of the 2020 Hugo Awards at CoNZealand, this year’s iteration of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon, for short). Although the ongoing pandemic prevented CoNZealand from being held in physical form, like many similar events, it adapted to the situation by offering a virtual convention – and the Hugos were,
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Previously on Comics: No One’s Laughing
- News
- August 3, 2020
Good morning, folks! We’re back for the start of another week. The seasons may change, the weeks may change, but it’s comforting to know that the comics industry will always be a fucking joke.
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- News, Television and Film
- July 31, 2020
As time continues to march on, we edge closer to what’s gonna be a gonzo award season with the Emmys. Find out about the snubs, the apologies, the new shows, and more!
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