On October 1st, Oni Press launched its first Humble Bundle. On offer are some of the publisher’s top comics, including Scott Pilgrim, Lost at Sea, Stumptown and Bad Machinery, as well as some of its lesser known, but just as cool titles. The bundle clocks in at 2,500 pages, in 24 comics. That’s a lot of…
Marvel’s Driving Me Nuts With “Unbeatable Squirrel Girl” Ongoing
Sigh. I knew that name trademark was leading to something. Marvel’s announced an ongoing comic book series for joke superheroine Squirrel Girl. They’ve deigned to bestow the adjective of “Unbeatable” preceding her name. It will be written by Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, Adventure Time, and The Midas Flesh, while it will be illustrated by…
Sequential Sartorial: The Wardrobe of Colleen Wing
Sequential Sartorial! It’s gonna be a new thing! Talking about costume design in comics: GOOD costume design. This week: Colleen Wing, 2006. First things first: does anybody want my copy of Daughters of the Dragon, trade number one (“Samurai Bullets”)? Pay the postage and it’s yours. I don’t need it in my house; it’s a…
Short & Sweet: Saga, Dark Engine, and Sandman!
Saga #23 Brian K. Vaughan Fiona Staples Image Comics Saga #23 is an issue about betrayal. The big betrayal, of course, is Alana’s co-worker Yuma selling out Alana’s family in order to save her own cowardly skin. This event turns the screws of Saga’s overarching plot, but pales in comparison to the domestic drama brewing…
Fitness: I am Runner 5
My sister regularly runs marathons, has running-related tattoos, and even leads her own run club (I designed the t-shirts!). Me? I am not a runner. That is to say, I don’t like high impact exercise like jogging or running, but walking? That I can and will do, along with aquafit once a week, but not much…
R/W: Adult Human Female
Word Nerdery Woman. Noun. An adult human female. Google suggests: “a female worker or employee; a wife, girlfriend, or lover.” Pack mule, brood mare, treasured possession. Ouch, Google. That’s way harsh. As usual, the Online Etymology Dictionary is more useful, and more interesting: “adult female human,” late Old English wimman, wiman (plural wimmen), literally “woman-man,” alteration…
The DC Daily Planet: How Do We Merch
Loyal readers, I apologize for the lateness of this article. I know you’ve been hung on the WWAC homepage all day, hungrily refreshing the page, only to be disappointed again and again. Well, please allow me to sweep in at the eleventh hour with all the DC news you can handle — or at least,…
Kickstarter of the Week: Unshelved Goes Digital
Back in 2002, Unshelved appeared as a webcomic sharing the stories of a small public library. The 10 collections have never been made into e-books — which bring us to our Kickstarter of the Week. The Unshelved Goes Digital Kickstarter campaign aims to make all 12 years’ worth of webcomics into DRM-free e-books. The brainchild…
A Trip Down Fear Street: It All Began at the Book Fair
I was in the fourth grade; it was the most magical time of the school year — The Book Fair. My mom had given me some cash, and I squirmed all morning with anticipation until my home-room’s turn to head to the cafeteria/auditorium where the stage housed the movable bookshelves just brimming with entries into…
Reviews Roulette: Crime, Magic, Surgery
As Romona states below, Reviews Roulette is a feature where editorial staff assign comics to staff writers — comics they’ve never looked at, comics out of the blue. It’s a grab bag of mystery, and here’s what our women think! Baltimore: The Witch of Harju #2 Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden (W) Peter Bergting (A) Ben…
Creating the Halloween Spirit: 20 Albums
I doubt it will surprise any of our readers that we really, really, really like Halloween around here. We’ve been talking about it and planning and generally getting very excited since the end of August.