Death doesn’t matter in comics. 90% of the time that I spend thinking about comics, I argue against this. But if people die all the time and then come back, death can’t matter.
Reefer Madness is a Harsh Buzz
Reefer Madness Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Jerry Robinson, and more (Creators), Craig Yoe (Editor) Dark Horse Comics March 29, 2018 Do you miss the days when the devil’s lettuce was demonized and illegal everywhere? Love getting lit and laughing at just how misunderstood marijuana was, and still is in much of…
The Intimate Lives of Monsters: Wayward Sisters
Wayward Sisters: An Anthology of Monstrous Women Allison O’Toole and M. Blankier (editors) February 2018 Most women already know how it feels to be made monstrous. If we can tell what most frightens a society from what form its monsters take and what they threaten, the very ideas governing what societies and people will be…
Green Hornet #2: Rise of a Fascinating New Hero
Green Hornet #2 Amy Chu (Writer), German Erramouspe (Artist), Brittany Pezzillo (Colours), Tom Napolitano (Letters) Dynamite Comics 4 April, 2018 There is a new Green Hornet in Century City and she isn’t afraid to kick ass. Mulan Hayashi has taken over the mantle from Britt Reid Jr., now missing for over three weeks following a…
WWE BOOM! #16: This Is A Bad Comic and I Hated It
The actual story of WWE’s Women’s Revolution, especially the story surrounding the so-called “Four Horsewomen of NXT” is incredible. It is a story of four women who were told, repeatedly, “nobody cared” about women’s wrestling. Instead of letting that discourage them, they used it as their fuel to change that opinion. Building on the work…
Firebug Sets the World Ablaze
Firebug Johnnie Christmas (Writer and Artist), Tamra Bonvillain (Colorist) Image Comics March 7, 2018 Firebug, created by Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain and originally published in Brandon Graham and Emma Rios’ comics magazine Island, gets a second chance on the shelves in a collected trade paperback. I had very high expectations for this comic; being…
Extra EXTRA! Read All About It!
The EC Archives: Extra! Johnny Craig, John Severin, Colin Dawkins and others (writers and artists) Dark Horse Comics April 11, 2018 This collection presents the entire run of Extra! which ran for five issues in the mid 1950s, each one comprised of a number of short comics stories and some sojourns into short prose fiction–what…
The Occultist Omnibus is a Magical Monster Mash
The Occultist Omnibus Mike Richardson and Tim Seeley (Writers), Victor Drujiniu and Mike Norton (Artists) Dark Horse Comics May 2, 2018 Originally published in 2012, Dark Horse is resurrecting a cult classic with the release of The Occultist Omnibus. Your typical boy-gains-supernatural-powers story, The Occultist follows the monster-fueled adventures of college kid Robert Bailey, who…
Cults, Talking Raccoons and Gentrification: A Love Letter to Leaving Richard’s Valley
It’s not always easy to say goodbye.
Fragments of Femininity: A Clichéd Look at Womanhood
Fragments of Femininity Olivier Pont (writer and artist) Europe Comics 18 January, 2017 IZNEO HAS PROVIDED WWAC WITH A VIP ACCESS PASS. What makes a woman feminine? Olivier Pont’s graphic novel, Fragments of Femininity, translated from his 2015 French graphic novel, DesSeins, aims to study the symbol of women’s femininity—their breasts—through the stories of seven women…
The Wasp’s Secret History of Being Amazing
Besides having maybe one of the coolest civilian names of any superhero ever, Janet Van Dyne is one of the founding Avengers. As well as being the character who named the team way back in 1963, she’s also a rich kid from New Jersey from a well-to-do family, eventually helping to fund the Avengers at…
Sisco #1: You’re in the Danger Zone
Sisco #1 Thomas Legrain (artist), Benec (writer), Peng Weng and Studio 9 (colorist) Europe Comics June 2017 In an era when comics are becoming more diverse and the stories told more creative, I find it fascinating how some cling ever tighter to the same stories of the past. With Sisco, I hoped for something new. Instead, I…
