Welcome to Monthly Marvel Muster, as we look back on January. This column we have two character resurrections, the start of the much-hyped weekly Avengers: No Surrender, and a whole lot of miniseries and one-shots. Marvel had no new ongoing comics in January, but made up for it with five new miniseries and five one-shots….
Exploring CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments
Illness is something that all of us experience at some time in our life. Sometimes it’s temporary, or sometimes it ends up defining the way we live our lives. But for such a universal experience, it’s one that’s often explored in arts and culture by people who have a reductive view of what it means…
Jim Lee, ’92: Trying to Herd WildCATS
Somehow, despite thoroughly being a child of the 90s, I had never read WildCATS. I was always aware of it; my friend Justin had a stack of those early issues, and I imagine I probably flipped through them while we played Sega games, but I didn’t really read them. It’s sort of strange looking back,…
Rosie’s Dynamite Round-up Jan/Feb 2018
Hello, comic book adventurers! It’s me Rosie, back once again with your regular Dynamite comics roundup. We here at Women Write About Comics are dedicated to unpacking the complex parts of the industry and unwrapping the underwhelming gift that is comics so we can all enjoy/despair about it together! So here we are with another…
Bloodshot Salvation #7 Dances in the Dark
Bloodshot Salvation #7 Jeff Lemire (writer, illustrator) Valiant March 7th 2018 Ohhh hey now, Valiant is being cute again!
Star Wars Adventures: Ahsoka and Padme Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny #4: Ahsoka and Padme Beth Revis (writer), Valentina Pinto (artist and colours), Tom B. Long (letters) IDW Publishing 24 January, 2018 The Forces of Destiny series heads to the Star Wars prequels and The Clone Wars animated series with Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Naboo Senator Amidala starring in…
WWE #14: Well, It Could Be Worse
WWE #14 Dennis Hopeless, Tini Howard (writers), Serg Acuña (artist), Dan Mora (cover artist) BOOM! Studios February 21, 2018 There is something fascinating about WWE #14. The first issue of the arc chronicling the Women’s Revolution in the company is some kind of genius in how metatextual the storytelling is. Because, exactly like the real…
The Wedding Issue: Storm and Black Panther
Aside from “Who would win in a fight?”, no debate gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should marry. In this mini-feature, former Bride Rebecca Henely-Weiss and Bride-to-Be Kayleigh Hearn take a trip down memory lane to the most significant times comic companies took the plunge and got their…
Judge Anderson’s Emma Beeby Takes on Mata Hari in a New Dark Horse Series
Exotic dancer. Courtesan. Spy. Double agent. Traitor. The history of Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” MacLeod, better known as Mata Hari, is fraught with controversy, but, according to an eye witness at her 1917 execution in Paris, one thing is true: Mata Hari was defiant to the end. The third offering from Karen Berger’s new Dark Horse…
The Beatles Story: And Your Book Can Sing
The Beatles Story Angus Allan (Writer), Arthur Ranson (Artist) Rebellion/The Treasury of British Comics February 2018 Ever since Beatlemania began in 1963, comics has watched, recorded, and re-interpreted the Fab Four. It started very early on, with the now defunct Dell Comics 1964, a sanitized one-shot biography of The Beatles. But it has included everything…
Comic Book Name Game: Week One
It’s the Year of the Knockoff here at WWAC, and to illustrate just how samey comic book characters have been, I’m going to chain together all of their names, using an element of the last one to pick the next one. I’ll also mention their other name(s) and where they’re “from.” For the sake of…
Hire this Hero: Slyde This Résumé by Headmistress Pryde
Adam? Adam X? We haven’t seen you around here for—ohhh, gosh, I beg your pardon, sir! I mistook you for a friend of a friend. It’s easy to do, I’m sorry. People kind of have a habit of turning up here after a long time. Often in pretty rough shape! Oh, I beg your pardon,…