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, Kayleigh, Nola, Cori, and Wendy share their thoughts on the cover of Hellions #3 by Steven Segovia and Rain Beredo for Marvel Comics.
Last Week’s Episode: The Outside World is a Garbage Fire so Bingewatch TV Instead
While entertainment media has been an escape for many us these past days of quarantine, trying to come out of the bubble to report on the news in the industry has been disheartening. I’ve not tried to sugarcoat the situation, but I did do some digging for some more positive news to share this week….
DC Pubwatch – March 2020 and Not the Emerald City Comic Con Edition
Welcome to the March 2020 DC Pubwatch. What a month, hey? March was a lot. The biggest news is only tangentially comics-related, but is affecting the industry enough that we have to talk about it. Of course, that is COVID-19 and the havoc it’s wreaking on the world. Shelter-in-place orders are hitting cities all over…
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #1: No Honour Among Thieves
Everyone’s favourite Star Wars bounty hunters Boba Fett and Bossk are joined by fellow hunter Valance on a mission that goes awry, leaving all three hunters hungry for revenge. Years later, they may just get that opportunity—but who will get to the prize first?
Giant-Size X-Men #1: Nightcrawler and the Haunted X-Mansion
Giant-Size X-Men #1: Nightcrawler takes us back to where it all began with ghosts haunting Nightcrawler as he and his team try to figure out what’s causing anomalies at the former X-Mansion’s gate.
Action 2020: A Controversial Classic Returns
In 1976 the British comics scene was shaken by controversy, all due to a new publication with the innocuously generic title of Action. Outwardly a typical boy-targeted comic – the cover to issue #1 showed a shark, a footballer and a tank, none of them exactly groundbreaking topics – Action was, on the inside, a…
WWACommendations: The Girl Downstairs, Femme Magnifique, Taproot, Crowded, and More
What comics are you reading lately? Every month, WWAC contributors share some of the comics they’ve been especially enjoying. It’s been an especially stressful few months for many of us, so I hope these comics offer some solace. Let us know what comics you’re reading on Twitter!
Weary of Being a Woman: Dark Agnes — from Pulp to Comics
Conan the Barbarian is the best-known of the characters created by Robert E. Howard, but he is far from the only one. Prior to his early death in 1936, Howard conceived an entire pantheon of pulp heroes including the likes of Solomon Kane, Kull of Atlantis and Bran Mak Morn, many of whom had afterlives…
Cartoons for Caregivers Working From Home With Little Helpers
You have one or more small children and suddenly you’re faced with figuring out working from home while school or daycare is closed. Don’t fear, WWAC is here! The cartoons on this list are pleasing to both your kids’ brains and your ears. Throw screen time guilt out the window and tell the American Academy…
Excalibur #9: Self-Doubt in the Land of Starlight
The Excalibur team make their way to the Starlight Citadel to confront Lady Opal Luna Saturnyne as Captain Britain struggles with self-doubt in Excalibur #9.
Previously On Comics: ¿Quien Cuida?
Marvel really had A Week, didn’t they? First there was the New Warriors announcement, in which the new creative team brought with it a whole new roster, featuring some truly unfortunate character designs, such as siblings Safespace and Snowflake, the latter of whom is a nonbinary person of color on top of that name, as well as what…
Katy Keene’s Spider Woman Gets Tangled In Its Own Web
In Katy Keene chapter seven, Katy’s big opportunity to step out as a designer may come at the price of her princely indiscretion being exposed; Pepper tries to cozy up to the Cabot siblings for moolah for Jorge’s show; Josie is frustrated that her EP has gotten her nowhere, and Jorge teams up with Pepper…
