The big news for Vault Comics in this month’s pubwatch is their distribution deal with Simon & Schuster, Inc, joining several other publishers who are looking beyond the Diamond Comics distribution monopoly in order to reach wider audiences in ways that are more reasonable for both the reader and for local comics book stores. Titles…
WWAC Reads!
If you’d like a reading recommendation of any kind, WWAC has your back. Here at WWAC, our recent voracious reading has been varied. Lots of us have been cozying up with recent celebrated speculative fiction, WWAC Boss Publisher Wendy Browne has been delving into nonfiction, and I recently read an exciting Young Adult novel that…
REVIEW: X-Factor #8 – The Song of Morrigan Crescendos
This second storyline in X-Factor has been rather fascinating to me. While Leah Williams and David Baldeon maintain the same dramatic stride issue to issue, it is all too evident that they, along with Israel Silva and Joe Caramagna, have been waiting for X-Factor #8 in particular to ramp things up and really push the…
REVIEW: Children of the Atom #1 Introduces Young X-Men… with a Twist?
Children of the Atom #1 follows a group of young heroes as they fight crime, handle school bullies, and decide how they fit into a post-Krakoa world.
Last Week’s Episode: Happy Pandemiversary Week With Action-Packed Animation News
Right now everyone is swapping stories about where they were this time last year. Saying goodbye to coworkers and students for the last time in person. The early days now seem almost celebratory. People waving to each other from their windows, posting silly videos of animals, celebrities singing to us from the screens that are…
A Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup, March ‘21
March is a time for anthologies and yearly fundraising, and Kickstarter and Indiegogo have delivered a host of exciting collaborative projects to my eyeballs. I’ve had my wallet threatened by everything from contemplative autobio to exciting debut issues this month, but I’ve whittled ‘em down for you. Check out this month’s favorites below!
REVIEW: New Mutants #16 – A Crowded Room
The word of the arc is synergy, both in power sets and community. New Mutants has a broad cast of characters it follows: members of the titular New Mutants team, the younger generations of mutants who have been around for years but never allowed to age, and actual new-new mutants, like Cosmar (both newly powered…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: March 2021
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of March! 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, Riverdale gets renewed, variant covers are discussed, and some new info about Archie’s digital plans comes forth!
DC Pride #1 To Lead Off Big LGBT Pride Month
So last week, I wrote up a press release and was not very kind about it. This week we have the opposite story, in which I saw a press release and had to write about it because I’m overwhelmed with joy and a feeling of representation that is a rarity in comics. This morning DC…
REVIEW: Not the FUTURE We Want, the One We Get
Sometimes you pick up a book knowing full well how it will end. I knew exactly what I was getting into when I picked up the science fiction graphic novel FUTURE, but that didn’t stop me from loving the journey. FUTURE is about the last astronaut on Earth, Murray Mielniczuk, and her wife Kay. Murray…
REVIEW: Pacific Rim: The Black is a Fun Return To Form For the Franchise
Netflix’s Pacific Rim: The Black marks the second (and most successful) time that Legendary Pictures has attempted to recapture the magic of 2011’s Pacific Rim. Three years after the most recent movie (2018’s Pacific Rim: Uprising) and ten years after the franchise began, The Black is a return to form for the kaiju versus mech…
REVIEW: Hellions #10’s Attack of the Chucky Doll
Hellions is one of those great comics where it’s easy to see talented creators levelling up in real time, and gosh, it’s fascinating.
