Hello again, faithful readers. It’s been awhile. And yet, looking at the news from the past week, it’s like nothing’s changed. Some white male creators who have long overstayed their tenure in comics are still out there slotting and harassing people–but then there’s good shit too. Some weeks there’s a little more of column A…
Last Week’s Episode: Disney Deluge+
Yesterday Disney dropped an entire mountain of new programming, which honestly fills me with a lot of mixed and uncomfortable emotions. Like,surely one of the ten Star Wars shows announced could have been axed to pay to furlough some of the 11,000+ park employees that have been laid off?
REVIEW: Critical Role’s Vox Machina Origins Library Edition Is A Satisfying Tome
Hey, uh…you guys like Critical Role? You know, that show with the voice actors and the Dungeons & Dragons?
Tangerines, Berries, Pirates: Finding your Family in One Piece
A centering theme prevalent across the whole of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running opus One Piece is families, or more specifically found families. In the framework of early One Piece (the East Blue Saga), this is most strongly seen in the context of the Arlong Park arc with Nami, the Straw Hat pirates’ navigator.
REVIEW: X-Factor #5 – For The Children
X-Factor is a hard book for me to talk about. It’s not that it’s bad—quite the opposite—it’s that it quite literally is challenging me on every level when I read it. That’s a factor (heh) I adore.
REVIEW: Champions #3 Needs a Change
Champions #2 was “a lot of dialogue and very few action scenes.” Champions #3 is, likewise, a lot of words, but the change in line artist elevated the overall narrative. The ending, however, left a sour taste in my mouth.
REVIEW: Bill and Ted Are Doomed #2-4 Stays Non-Heinous
As Bill, Ted, Death and the Princesses wend their way through a most horrifying European tour, they find themselves pursued by angry metal bands, demonic forest trolls…and their destiny. But there’s a lot of human feeling packed in between the jokes.
REVIEW: National Anthem #3 Does Right By Most, But Not All, The Fabulous Killjoys
In National Anthem #3, the Fabulous Killjoys are painstakingly putting themselves back together, bit by bit, like a strange puzzle with unexpected pieces. An abandoned fireworks warehouse in New Mexico. An old friend with a new name. A sudden memory that wasn’t there before. Speeding through the desert, on the run from deadly enemies—this is…
REVIEW: Crossover #2 is a Smug Cover Song in Comic Book Form
I honestly didn’t think I was going to review Crossover #2. After issue #1, I felt confident that the series was both firmly not my cup of tea and has shown its hand, in storytelling terms. I was an idiot, y’all. Crossover #2 carries forward the combination of ignorant use of real-world parallels and Ready…
REVIEW: HELLIONS #7 – This Fucking Guy
Are there any characters that when they show up in a book you just sneer and say “THIS FUCKING GUY”? Not because you dislike the character, but because you know that since they’re here they’re just going to make things absolutely fucking miserable. I have a few of those. Jamie Braddock. Arcade. But the biggest…
Archie Pubwatch: December 2020
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of December! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, there’s much Christmas merch and one of my favorite modern Archie series ever hits Archie Unlimited!
Fugitive Telemetry lets Murderbot Crack the Case: Spoiler-free Review
Fugitive Telemetry, the sixth Murderbot book in the bestselling science fiction series by Martha Wells, has the beats I love from locked room murder mysteries and procedural crime dramas, and it has the voice and themes I love from the Murderbot series. It’s just as engaging and affirming as the rest of the series has…
