Archie Meets Batman ’66 #3: The Batman of Riverdale J. Bone (artist), Kelly Fitzpatrick (colours), Michael Moreci (writer), Jack Morelli (letters), Dan Parent (artist), Jeff Parker (writer) Archie Comics and DC Entertainment 26 September, 2018 The villains of Gotham are taking over Riverdale. But there is a major flaw in their plan. The Siren’s song…
Tini Howard’s Captain America
Writer Tini Howard takes Captain America and Bucky back to their origins with a World War II story in Captain America Annual #1. The story involves Cap and Bucky protecting World War II concentration camp escapees, an element of World War II that many Cap stories have shied away from. It’s a dark time in our…
A Girl, A Ghost, and A Laundromat: A Review of Sheets
Sheets Brenna Thummler (Writer & Illustrator) CubHouse August 28, 2018 Sheets follows a young thirteen-year-old girl named Marjorie Glatt who is still recovering from her mother’s untimely death. She and her family run, own, and live above their laundromat, and all daily duties have fallen to Marjorie. She is isolated at school and is struggling…
Presenting Dark Horse: September 2018
Hello lovely readers! Welcome to the September installment of Presenting Dark Horse. We’re officially in the throes of autumn’s chilly embrace, and I am so ready to get my sweater weather on with one of my favorite publishers. And what goodies does Dark Horse have to bring me in these last few weeks before Halloween?…
Dracula’s Forgotten Sister: Florence Marryat and The Blood of the Vampire
Vampire fiction was crystallised in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Subsequent generations of writers in the genre have had to define their works only in relation to this novel, whether they were adhering to its example or departing from it. But if we go back in time, we see a different story, or rather, different stories. While…
A Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup, October ’18
It’s Halloween! We made it! The month of ghosts, ghouls, and gourds is upon us, and boy is it welcome. After an utterly grueling few weeks in both comics and the “real world,” it’s time to cozy down with some brand new campaigns full of spooky stories, inspirational worlds, and at least one robot (probably).
Dream Daddy Dreams with Josh Trujillo
Rose City Comic Con is the kind of laid back, chill convention where interviews feel more like conversations. After reading Dream Daddy #1 and becoming an enthusiastic fan of the new series, I contacted Oni Press to see about an interview with Josh Trujillo, who was the only creator from the just released Dream Daddy…
Previously on Comics: Activist Outcomes
Welcome to a new week and another turn on the comics news carousel. Before we discuss the positive, we must pay our respects.
Cover Girl: Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince #2
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Tia, Wendy, Heather, and Annie discuss Lenka Šimečková’s cover for Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince #2 from Titan Comics.
Eddie Brock’s Body: An Artistic Overview of the Venom Symbiote
No matter where you look these days, listicles about the sexiest characters in comics all look the same. You’ve got your Gambits and your Thors, for example, characters whose canon beauty is basically an explicitly listed trait on their wiki-pages. Some fans swoon over Clark Kent’s earnest farm boy persona, while Emma Frost’s fierce and…
Twisting Up A Dickens Classic: An Interview with the Creative Team Behind “Olivia Twist”
Reinventing a classic to another time or medium is an opportunity to breathe fresh life into the work. How many of us were inspired to revisit high school English reading list staples Romeo and Juliet or The Great Gatsby after Baz Luhrmann put his own spin on them? Or finally understood the themes behind A Wrinkle in Time after Hope Larson’s…
The Ballad of Halo Jones Finishes Growing Up in Volume 3
The Ballad of Halo Jones Volume 3 Alan Moore (writer), Ian Gibson (artist), Barbara Nosenzo (colorist) 2000 AD September 18, 2018 The thrilling conclusion of a good origin story is simultaneously satisfying and tantalizing. This three-volume arc of The Ballad of Halo Jones feels that way. It’s a great ending, but a bittersweet one, because…
