Emily McGovern’s latest graphic novel, Twelve Percent Dread, might increase your personal dread percentage, even as it entertains. It’s about roommates and former couple Katie and Nas, scrambling to get Nas’s visa approved and to survive in the gig economy. It’s also about a tech giant making terrible ethical decisions, and how their employees become…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Prepare Yourself Mutant: Memories of Neal Adams’ X-Men
Our Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon.
REVIEW: The Legend of Auntie Po: We Make Our Own Gods
Shing Yin Khor’s Eisner-nominated The Legend of Auntie Po is a fantastical re-imagining of the place that American gods like Paul Bunyan have in our imagination. The story takes place in a logging camp nestled within the Sierra Nevadas between 1885 and 1886 and is told through the eyes of 13 year-old Mei, a Chinese-American…
DC PUBWATCH: DC Pride 2022 Edition
Happy Pride! DC Pride 2022 kicked off the celebration for us this year!
The Grief of Stones Deepens Katherine Addison’s World: Spoiler-free review
The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison is her latest mystery in the world of The Goblin Emperor. It follows The Witness for the Dead, presenting the Witness again solving murder mysteries and engaging in more derring-do than he, personally, wishes for. Slow-paced until a sudden action scene, the build has great pay off and…
2022 Hugo Award Reviews: Proof by Induction/Mr. Death
Starting today is Women Write About Comics’ annual review series covering the latest round of Hugo finalists. To kick things off, here are two of the contenders for Best Short Story…
Previously On Comics: Marvel Keeps Apologizing for This Same Kind of Shit
What is up my fellow non-fundamental rights having people? Are you ready to get this party started? Yes. Let’s do this. Let’s get into the last week of comics news. I regretfully begin another Previously with news of a member of the comics family’s untimely passing. Mike Pasciullo, Senior Vice President of Marvel Television &…
Gender to Watch Out For: Stuart and Trans Lesbianism in Alison Bechdel’s Classic Strip
Last year, I realised I was a lesbian. Fresh out of one of the many closets I’ve occupied, I immediately began to search for a ‘culture’ of sapphism. This meant for me listening to a lot of Kate Bush, reading Susie Bright, and finally picking up a copy of Dykes to Watch Out For by…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: June 2022
June is is just about over and Pride Month is about to make its exit! Hopefully, this month was less discourse of certain authority figures at Pride Marches in the ongoing conversation of how unsafe these places can be with them attending and more emphasis on the survival of queer, transitioning and trans folks in…
Retro Review: Ang Lee’s Hulk Is the Best Iteration of the Character
For a brief time, in my adolescence, I was deeply into The Incredible Hulk. I inherited a solid run of Peter David’s work on the title, and I loved how this book, ostensibly about a rage monster who likes to smash things, was giving me scenes of Bruce Banner in therapy. I started counseling at…
INTERVIEW: James Aquilone Unleashes the Bard With Monstrous Results in Shakespeare Unleashed
“I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams,” says Hamlet to Rosencrantz — or is it Guildenstern? — in James Aquilone’s favorite scenes from William Shakespeare. There are numerous lines that have stuck with Aquilone since reading the play in…
Vault Pubwatch: June 2022
It’s Pride Month! To celebrate, Vault Comics is partnering up with Gatecrashers for a Pride Charity Auction on June 29th. The auction will feature unique items from creators like Tom King, Steve Orlando, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, and more. Additionally, the auction will feature a Harley Quinn poster signed by voice actors Kaley Cuoco and…