In the world of indie tarot decks, Lisa Sterle’s Modern Witch Tarot has been highly anticipated for quite a long time. The first tarot illustration she posted on Twitter was all the way back in March 2017—the Ten of Swords, depicted as a girl casually checking her phone while the swords jutted out of her…
Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran’s The Clock is Ticking
It’s almost impossible to meet a person whose life has not been touched by cancer in some way, taking family, friends, or our own lives from us. For Matt Hawkins, creator of The Clock, that touch was his own mother who was diagnosed when he was only 17. At that time, she was given only…
New Mutants #4: Ugh, Nebraska
In New Mutants #4, the young X-Men assembled by Armor in the previous issue are in trouble in Pilger, Nebraska. In the second issue of this storyline in the Dawn of X title, the young New Mutants face down high stakes with lives on the line, in a straightforward conflict with the villains of this…
PUBWATCH: AfterShock December 2019
Happy Holidays from AfterShock Comics, and from our regular AfterShock pubwatch coverage here at WWAC! Here you can keep up with our monthly publication watch coverage, bringing news every month on the latest from AfterShock Comics. Hopefully everyone is staying warm as they read dangerously.
A Tarnished Legacy: The End of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress, the once-influential anthology series that was founded in 1984, saw its thirty-fourth and final instalment this year. The series managed to survive a number of significant setbacks: one was the death of original editor Marion Zimmer Bradley in 1999; another was publisher DAW dropping the series with the 2004…
The Witcher Is a Confusing Mess of Timelines, Violence, and Boobs and I Look Forward to Season 2
The Witcher’s first problem is going the route of Game of Thrones early on by offering up gratuitous nudity and violence in its first few episodes, as if an audience will only latch on to a show if boobs and Mortal Kombat-style finishing moves are involved. Fortunately, it does settle down eventually, but it takes some time…
X-Force #4: No Moral Compass Except Nationalism
Four issues of X-Force, and I’m once again revising my opinion. I’m very annoyed with this book and its continual ups and downs!
Fallen Angels #4: It Doesn’t Make Sense, Any Of This
I’ve been pretty clear with how I feel about this series, and Fallen Angels #4 doesn’t really do much to change those feelings. This series is still an unbelievably sloppy and downright confusing book. It’s a book that like it’s main characters, is struggling to find it’s identity. It feels like the book wants to…
Previously on Comics: When Racists and Overzealous Lawyers Attack: #Inktober C&D 2019
With the holiday season in full swing and mall parking lots even more dangerous than usual, it’s good to know that we can still rely on the comics industry to be there for us, for better or for worse.
Excalibur #4 and the Matter of Britain
With every issue of Excalibur, I find myself reevaluating the book as a whole. At the beginning of this arc, this was the Dawn of X title I was most tentative on, loving the concept and liking the first issue, but struggling with the second. Now, as the end of the first arc draws near,…
Tres Dean: Professional Liker of The Rock
Tres Dean is a writer whose words can be found at GQ, Paste, Syfy, Geek.com, IGN, and more. He writes about shoes, geeky things, pop culture, and now he’s writing about The Rock in his very first book. For Your Consideration: The Rock from Quirk Books is a collection of essays exploring Dwayne “The Rock”…
Ladies-in-Waiting (Las meninas) Is a Docu-Drama about Murder, Ambition, Deceit, and Palace Intrigue
As a Spanish professor with an affinity for comics and graphic novels, I am known to make time to peruse the comic book stores whenever I get to Spain. But I also have a special affinity for the great masters of art, and so I also make sure I have time to visit El Prado…
