The development of vampire fiction throughout the nineteenth century is often boiled down to four key authors. Dr. John Polidori established the genre in 1819 with his short story “The Vampyre”. James Malcolm Rymer demonstrated that vampires could find popular success through longer-form storytelling with his penny dreadful saga Varney the Vampire, completed in 1847….
Inaugural Ignyte Awards Celebrate Diverse Fantasy and Science Fiction
This year, the world of science fiction and fantasy has become home to a new set of prizes: the Ignyte Awards. Presented at the 2020 Fiyahcon, a convention held under the banner of Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, the Ignyte Awards have the stated aim of celebrating diversity within speculative fiction:
REVIEW: Family Road Trip-Meets-Alien in Cable #5
X of Swords is here! The sprawling 22-part epic has arrived and, surprising no one, Krakoa’s favorite psychic teenager with a big space-sword is joining the party. As it is with most event tie-in comics, the question is how well it succeeds as both a piece of the XoS event and an issue of Cable…
REVIEW: New Mutants #13: Old Swords
The crossover event X of Swords has hit the New Mutants right where they live — their eponymous book with issue #13. And I take up the role of your regular New Mutants reviewer.
REVIEW: Hellions #5: Bad Bargains in Otherworld
So just HOW do the Hellions play into X of Swords? That’s a question that has been plaguing me since we found out exactly what the crossover is going to entail in X of Swords: Creation. Hellions #5 gives us an answer to how this band of misfit mutants plays into the sword tournament when…
Previously On Comics: Reinventing the Wheel
Welcome back to Previously on Comics, the place where we try to keep track of the things that have the audacity to keep occurring inside of the pandemic purgatory we find ourselves trapped within. I’m not sure if comics is especially quiet at the moment or if we are all too caught up in local…
The Wedding Issue: Hulkling and Wiccan
Aside from “Who would win in a fight?”, no debate gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should marry. In this special revival of their popular column, Rebecca Henely-Weiss and Kayleigh Hearn take a trip to today’s spinner racks and look at the most recent times comic companies took…
Last Week’s Episode: Lazy in Space
This week I made the mistake of watching hours of SCOTUS hearings, so rest assured pretty much anything mentioned below is gonna be better than that.
REVIEW: Wicked Things #5: Wicked Wonders
Suspicions, our sleuth, and a soft strongman stretch out the story in this sustaining segment of Wicked Things. The ongoing series from the creative team behind Giant Days shows us the sweet-talking smoothness of a subtler Lottie against a series of strange casino smash and grabs.
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: October 2020
It’s spooky season! (Or spoopy season, if you’re like me and sometimes can’t spell.) What tricks and treats does Titan Comics bring us for October? This month, we take a look at the conclusion of Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious and the newest Life is Strange series!
REVIEW: Over the Garden Wall: Soulful Symphonies Brings Charm to the Fall Season
Autumn is finally upon us—time for hot apple cider, crunchy leaves, decorative gourds, and of course, my annual rewatch of Over the Garden Wall. It’s not every day that something becomes a holiday classic as instantly as this charming cartoon miniseries did in 2014, but its charming rural spookiness and heart have cemented it as…
REVIEW: The Wizerd! and the Potion of Dreams is Pure Comic Book Magic
*Disclaimer: I came into this thinking that Michael Sweater and Rachel Dukes are really cool and this utterly lovely book definitely did not change that opinion at all!*
