Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic #6 Mike Manley, Todd Nauck, Jack Pollock, Mimi Simon (art); Wes Dzioba, Mike Manley, Jack Pollock, Mimi Simon (colors); Wes Dzioba, Todd Nauck (cover); Michael Heisler (letters); Harold Buchholz, Joel Hodgson, Matt McGinnis, Mary Robinson, Seth Robinson, Sharon Volpe (writing) May 29th, 2019 Dark Horse Comics All good things…
Orphan Age #1: A Parent’s Best and Worst Nightmare
Orphan Age #1 Ted Anderson (writer), Marshall Dillon (letterer), Juan Doe (variant cover artist), Nuno Plati (illustrator) AfterShock Comics April 2019 As the parent of an 11 and 13-year old, their independence means magic to me. It means I am free to go out on my own, without dragging them along or worrying about daycare….
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: High School is Hell Is the Right Amount of New + Nostalgia
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: High School is Hell Raúl Angulo (colorist) Jordie Bellaire (writer), Ed Dukeshire (letterer), Dan Mora (penciller), Jeanine Schaefer (editor), Matthew Taylor (cover artist) BOOM! Studios May 22, 2019 Buffy is back, and there are some changes. As far as reboots go, retreading and/or revamping nostalgic ground can be hit or miss. I’m going…
Dynamite Comics Pubwatch: June 2019
Welcome to the Dynamite Comics Pubwatch for the month of June! I’m Lisa, Dynamite is my explosive beat, and here’s this month’s news!
A Gathering of Letterers
If you’ve been following By the Letters since the series inception early this year, you know that I’ve been spotlighting the fine art of comic book lettering and have featured a few interviews with letterers, including Ariana Maher. We’re a big fan of roundtables at WWAC, so I asked Maher if she’d help me get…
Phoenix Rising: Kayleigh Hearn on X-Men’s Jean Grey
Redheads have a special place in our hearts here at WWAC, and one redhead in particular is the favourite of our favourite Reviews Editor, Kayleigh Hearn. Leading up to the latest X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, starring Sophie Turner as the titular character, Kayleigh has some thoughts to share on the rise and fall and rise…
Previously on Comics: You Can Keep Your Graphic Novel Gentrification
Perusing our weekly collection of news links and tweets in order to write this week’s news, I find myself coming up with very little. Does that mean that comics actually weren’t trash for once? Haha of course not! It just means that the trash was on the down low for a bit! Here are a…