Happy April! What comics have you been reading lately? Every month, WWAC contributors share some of the comics we’ve read recently that we especially enjoyed. Is there a comic you’re reading that you wish more people would check out? Let us know on Twitter! Wendy Browne: I know nothing about Jessica Drew, but I trust…
Cayti Bourquin and Yishan Li’s Paradox Girl Makes Time for Top Cow
Paradox Girl is her own worst enemy. Literally. With the power to accurately teleport through time and space on a whim, with not a care in the world and no consequences to worry about, this superhero is a recipe for fun and funny disaster. After two successful Kickstarters, the six-issue series will be published in…
Previously On Whatever It Was We Were Reading Before N.K. Jemisin Invented Comics
This week DC announced the return of its Young Animal imprint and with it the launch of Far Sector, an original Green Lantern story written by the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author, N.K. Jemisin and artist Jamal Campbell. Alongside this we will also see the return of Doom Patrol, and the new original series…
Rebel Rousing: Anatomy Of A Star Wars Fan Comic
One of the things I was most excited to grab at ECCC this year was a physical copy of Rebel, a prequel fan comic about the heroine of Rogue One, Jyn Erso. She’s a unique character in the mythos of Star Wars in that she’s unconnected to the rest of the films series’ main characters,…
The Wedding Issue: Alysia Yeoh and Jo
Aside from “Who would win in a fight?” nothing gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes (and their friends) 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…
Morning in America #1 Hits Familiar Notes
Morning in America #1 Claudia Aguirre (artist & colorist), Zakk Sam (letterer), Magdalene Visaggio (writer) Oni Press March 6, 2018 Morning in America sees Kim & Kim’s Magdalene Visaggio and Claudia Aguirre team up for another story about bad girls, though this one at least starts on Earth. Set in 1983 (a year before Reagan used…
WWAC Asks: WonderCon 2019 Edition
WonderCon was a blur this year, but for WWAC’s new convention column, WWAC Asks, I trekked the artist alley and posed a question… “If you could work with any artist or writer, dead or alive who would it be and why?”
Last Week’s Episode: Hellboy, Hawkeye, & Dove
Another week, another cascade of comics-adjacent media in the news! Hellboy drops this week, Avengers this month, and Disney cannot stop itself from mining the Marvel IP mines for literally everything they can. Lexi Alexander Lexi Alexander (Punisher: War Zone), Oscar-nominated director, kickboxing champion, former stuntwoman, and prolific tweeter, did a really fascinating interview about cinematography,…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: April 2019
What have our friends over at Titan Comics been up to this spring? Surprisingly, quite a bit of winter-related news, with a new Snowpiercer story and a reprint of an autobiography of Santa Claus. (And I just put my winter coat away for the season too!)
On The Path With Invisible Kingdom #1
Invisible Kingdom #1 Christian Ward (art/coloring), G. Willow Wilson (writing) Dark Horse Comics March 20, 2019 Remember ODY-C? What an interesting book. Honestly, I’m bringing that up just to get it out of the way; Christian Ward, the artist on ODY-C, is also the artist here, this is also a sci-fi book, and he’s working…
Book Beat: New Boston Bookstore and Baltimore Mayor’s Book Troubles
Hello lovely readers, and welcome to Book Beat! This is your editor Paige, helping out the crew on news coverage this week. Thankfully, things have a been pretty chill these last few days, so this update will be pretty short. Consider it a nice little break from all the usual mayhem in the publishing industry,…
Rick and Morty vs Dungeons & Dragons Rolls Out Something Surprisingly Insightful
Rick and Morty vs Dungeons & Dragons Troy Little (artist), Patrick Rothfuss (writer), Jim Zub (writer), March 12, 2019 Oni Press “The world’s greatest role-playing game. Reality’s most dysfunctional family. What could go wrong?”
