In my review of Bad Mother #1, we meet April Walters who is a bad mother in so much as she loves her children and her husband and wants what’s best for them, even if that means putting her own hopes and dreams on the sidelines. With a life that’s down in the dumps, Christa…
Cover Girl: Marauders #12
Welcome to Cover Girls. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Rachel, Cori, Dani, Wendy, and Zoe share their thoughts on the cover of Marauders #12 by Russell Dauterman for Marvel Comics.
Reimagining the Personification of Death in Popular Culture
When people learn that I am studying death and comics they will invariably ask if I mean the grim reaper. Usually I say no, because that’s not at all what I’m doing, but sometimes I say yes, just to see where the conversation will go, to find out what they know about the thing that…
A24’s Entrance Into Animation Should Be Exciting, But Instead, It’s Exhausting
Content warning: mentions of sexual abuse and rape. While much of the entertainment industry seems to be at a pause, animators everywhere continue to work behind their screens and working stations without interruption. Live-action productions — endeavors that require physical contact and varying degrees of intimacy — are mostly at a standstill due to an…
Last Week’s Episode: The IP Grind
What’s up my friends? Are we all hydrated? Stretching? Remembering to text our friends and also do what you can to fight against a crushing racist system that’s currently being heralded on American television at the RNC? Well, get psyched, because there’s new shows, canceled shows, and two comic adaptations inside!
REVIEW: The Women of Lavender Jack
In 2019 there were several Webtoons nominated for the “Best Webcomic” Eisner award, two that were (and still are) extremely popular (Let’s Play by Mongie and Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe) and one less so. Lavender Jack by Dan Schkade was a comic I had never heard of until I saw it on the Eisner…
REVIEW: The Old Guard Book One: Opening Fire Needs to Take Its Time
I had no idea The Old Guard was a comic before it invaded my Netflix recommendations, but I am loving all the comic books beyond capes and cowls that are sneaking into mainstream media — especially when they involve older women kicking ass on screen. Having now read The Old Guard Book One: Opening Fire…
REVIEW: Fanlee and Spätzle Make Something Perfect is an Imperfect Delight
Fanlee and Spätzle Make Something Perfect is anything but what its title claims. The collection of webcomics from cartoonist Pseudonym Jones published by Silver Sprocket, is messy, inconsistent, and wildly leaps from comedic to tragic sometimes within the same strip. Thankfully, this is precisely what makes the collected five years of comics special, raw, and…
REVIEW: Empyre: X-Men #4: The End of an Empyre
The end of an empyre! Empyre: X-Men, that is. Can the X-Men survive the onslaught of the undead and the Cotati’s living doomsday weapon? Dani Kinney and Kayleigh Hearn survey the wreckage in Empyre: X-Men #4!
Cook Your Comics: Ash & Thorn #4 Combines Tentacle with Teacakes
The saga of Lottie Thorn and Lady Peruvia Ashlington-Voss’ journey to save the world continues. Ash & Thorn #4 brings a formidable foe into their lives that attempts to turn them against one another. The recipe of the issue involves teacakes, candied oranges and, in the case of this review’s author, thunderstorms.
BOOM Pubwatch: August 2020
Welcome to this month’s BOOM! Pubwatch, where I’ll be gushing about Wonder Pony, a new middle-grade comic that I loved, as well as the start of Seven Secrets #1, and the graphic memoir, Happiness Will Follow, which I have some mixed feelings about. In the news section there is some celebrating the Jenny Frison Cover…
