For Trans Day of Visibility we wanted to honor a few of our personal favorite trans and nonbinary creators in comics! ( A big thanks to fellow WWAC-er Zainabb Hull for helping to organize this piece)
INTERVIEW: Tokusatsu, Boarding School Dramas, & Superhero Comics Come Together in Mat Groom’s Inferno Girl Red
In Inferno Girl Red, Cássia Costa needs something to believe in, especially after an ancient cult and their demon army steal Apex City, her home. Cássia discovers that she is the only person who can right this wrong with a mysterious and powerful dragon bracelet affixes itself to her arm. Now, as the only person…
Supergirl’s Final Tour Begins With “Rebirth”
For the last five years, I’ve been able to see my favorite character soar on the small screen. Melissa Benoist has fully embodied everything I love about the character, and she will forever be the person I see when I think of Supergirl. The show has also been a professional highlight of my career, being…
Murderbot Doesn’t Love Parenting. Murderbot Just Wants to Watch Its Shows.
With the upcoming release of Fugitive Telemetry, the sixth book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells, I have been thinking about how Murderbot explores more and more of what it means to be a person in each book. Specifically, I’m thinking about the family relationships it encounters and participates in in Network Effect,…
DC PUBWATCH: March 2021 Edition
The Ides of March have passed us by and with it, another month of DC Comics. The first month of the Infinite Frontier era of DC started with a bang, with the one-shot of that same name, which in turn is leading into a mini-series to continue stories started in that issue. And of course,…
REVIEW: National Anthem #6 Gives The Killjoys A Sense Of Closure
It has certainly been a wild ride for the Fabulous Killjoys, but all wild rides must eventually come to an end, and theirs was destined to end with an important choice. What are they willing to give up to live the life of a happy family? Is it worth it to be lied to, if…
Last Week’s Episode: That’s How You Get Ants
While I can only approximate where you, dear reader, are, where I am is finally light jacket weather and I am just so excited to be producing vitamin D again.
Cover Girl: X-Corp #2
Welcome to Cover Girl. 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, Adrienne Resha, Dani Kinney, and Wendy Browne take a look at David Aja’s cover for X-Corp #2 from Marvel Comics.
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Wild, Weird Writing: Charlotte Brontë, Welcome to Die
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Brussels, 1892. In a second hand book stall, a professor finds the leather-bound manuscript of High Life in Verdopolis, a novella set in the fantastic kingdom of Glass Town imagined by…
REVIEW: Fashion and Flair Make Witchblood #1 a Fun Read
Lisa Sterle and Matthew Erman’s Witchblood #1 screams to be picked up. Not just because it’s good — though it is — but because it oozes style. From the bright and evocative cover to its brilliantly candy-coated colors by Gab Contreras, Witchblood catches the eye and doesn’t let it go thanks to a fun story,…
INTERVIEW: Christopher Golden and Bridgit Connell on the Long-Awaited Debut of Lady Baltimore
It’s been over a year since Lady Baltimore was first announced. Co-written by Hellboy’s Mike Mignola and bestselling novelist Christopher Golden, with art by Brother Nash creator, Bridgit Connell, the five-part comic series sees Sofia Valk embrace her monster-hunting destiny by taking up the Baltimore mantle. The series also features colours by Michelle Madsen and…
REVIEW: If I Can Learn “How To Draw Star Wars,” You Can Too!
Let me start off by saying that I am not an artist. When I first agreed to review How To Draw Star Wars, it brought me back to middle school. I remember using “how to draw” books to try to draw anime characters in cool fighting poses, attempting to learn to do figure drawing using…