Earlier this year, The CW débuted iZombie — the latest from Veronica Mars creator, Rob Thomas. iZombie, is based on the comic series by Chris Roberson and Mike Allred and tells the story of Liv Moore, a young, aspiring doctor-turned-zombie morgue assistant. When Liv eats the brains of the bodies that come into the morgue she…
This Week in WWAC History: Captain Marvel, Lumberjanes, Wonder Woman & Superman, Pigeons! (Yup, Pigeons)
There are an amazing amount of fantastic articles in the WWAC archives and with our inaugural “This Week in WWAC History,” we aim to make it easier for you to take a trip down memory lane and enjoy some of our posts from the past.
Shinbun Saturday: Versailles Comes to North America
An unlicensible manga comes to North America at last SDCC wasn’t quite the same licensing bonanza as Anime Expo, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t a couple major items of note. The biggest manga news to come out of the con is that Udon Entertainment licensed The Rose of Versailles. North American manga publishers tend to…
Crowd Funder of the Week: Nerd Out App
Looking to meet new people to share your nerdy interests? Missing out on nerd-related events in your area because you learned of them too late? Michelle “Elle” Jensen has a proposed solution for your problems with Nerd Out! Nerd Out is an app that compiles nerd-related events around your local area so that you no…
The DC Daily Planet: Dream Projects and So Many Trailers
Happy Friday, everyone! I’m back at the reins for the DCDP today, but can we all agree that Desiree has been doing a fabulous job? In fact, she even collected these links and articles for me. Everyone say thanks, Desiree! We’ve reported before that Marguerite Bennett, awesome creator and all-around cool person, is working on…
Get Excited for The Return of Valiant’s Doctor Mirage
Last winter, I spent my vacation catching up on some comics which led to a binge of Valiant Entertainment’s The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage. Written by Jen Van Meter with art by Roberto De La Torre, The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage was a five-issue limited series that began in September 2014 and was a reboot of the old series by Bob Layton…
Knit Your Comics: A Star Spangled Doily
Welcome to the second Knit Your Comics! Look, we have a banner! Isn’t it awesome?
Kids Can Press Comes to Comixology
Kids Can Press, is the largest Canadian-owned children’s book publisher, with over 700 books in print. They’re the people who brought us Scaredy Squirrel, Franklin the Turtle and other international favourites. In 40 years they’ve published a wide range of picture books, non fiction and fiction for young readers, including a number of graphic novels….
Glove, Bracelet, Bikini, Halberd: Exit the Witchblade, For Good?
Witchblade is ending! Come October, and issue one hundred and eighty-five, Sara Pezzini is taking off the glove, and walking away from her solo title after twenty long years. If you put your ear to the ground it sounds like a new bearer might surface, in a rebooted series of her own, but nothing solid…
Dinah Drake: Martial Arts Maven or Musical Menace?
Black Canary #1 Brenden Fletcher (writer); Annie Wu (artist); Lee Loughridge (coloring) DC Comics June 17, 2015 As the increasing number of new and rebooted comic series being made for women are still viewed as a threat to a not-insignificant number of fanboys, it makes perfect sense that the all-woman band Black Canary is dubbed “the…
Her Story: a Unique Gaming Experience That’s Good/Bad/Just Okay
The year is 1994, and a man named Simon has been reported missing, then dead, by his wife Hannah. She submits herself to several police interrogations, but the questions are now lost. Dig through the police archive, searching only by indexed keywords, and follow her narrative carefully to unravel the strange mystery of one widow….
The Thursday Book Beat: Who Reads the Watchman?
Studios bid for rights in The Name of the Wind Fantasy novels featuring anti-heroes seem to be the hot new property in Hollywood, and it was only a matter of time before Patrick Rothfuss’ work caught producers’ eyes. The Name of the Wind, the first novel in the Kingkiller Chronicles, has started a bidding war between big…
