Happy holidays, VIZ fans! 2024 may be coming to a close, but I will probably continue to do this pubwatch until the heat death of the universe or I run out of spare time. Whichever comes first! This month we’re getting warm and cozy with some fluffy romance manga, as well as volume 3 of…
WWAC Reads Books! Fantasy Romance Edition
We’ve got a wide array of fantasy and romance for you all this time around, with an epic historical tearjerker and a thoughtful piece of progressive nonfiction to round things out!
ESSAY: How Naomi Kritzer’s Science Fiction Strips Away Cyberspace
We have entered an era of AI slop. Periodicals are struggling with floods of submissions cooked up by ChatGPT rather than human imaginations, while readers downloading ebooks from Amazon are faced with the possibility of their latest purchase being the churned-out product of AI masquerading as actual creativity or scholarship. While science fiction is no…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: December 2024
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for December! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe with this month’s news. In December’s Pubwatch, Archie announces a facsimilie issue Kickstarter! Plus, plenty of new variant covers, and much more!
Previously On Comics: Comics Submission Opportunities
Good morning all. I am writing this a little bit earlier than I usually do because I need to pack up and get on the road to Wales. Sorry in advance if I miss something exciting.
REVIEW: Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory is a Space Opera for Today
Humanity has lost a war with the majoda, an interplanetary association united by an artificial intelligence called the Wisdom. Earth has been destroyed, and a space station called Gaea now houses a remnant of humanity in a rigid militaristic society. Valkyr, teenage niece of the station’s commander in chief Aulus Jole, is waiting for her…
WWACommendations: God Bless the Mistaken, Ditching Saskia, Breadcrumbs and More
This month’s WWACommendations is a riot of emotions. Kathryn’s reading about the discomfort of grief, Emily’s got a memoir that involves funneling emotion into activism, Christa’s got a familiar recommendation that processes feelings of isolation, Kayleigh brings us a horror anthology which of course serves up a great deal of fear, and I’ve got a…
Previously on Comics: GoFundMe, Godzilla, and Canada Post
Hello from your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously editor! It’s a short round-up this week because December is busy, busy, busy.
A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Mid Eighties!
In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, this month I read Archer’s Goon, The Skiver’s Guide, and Fire and Hemlock! I was especially excited to read The Skiver’s Guide, which I had never read before! And (so far) Archer’s Goon remains my favorite standalone of her work. It’s…
INTERVIEW: Emma Rios Talks Sea Monsters, Isolation, & Trauma in Anzuelo
“In Anzuelo, the Sea, secretly more complex than anyone imagined, rises one day. The horizon folds as the Sea absorbs the world and transforms everything that’s been pulled inside it. Three kids find themselves unmoored and lost, but brought together by the physical and mental changes wrought by the tides and a desire to avoid…
REVIEW: Marvel Zombies: Dawn of Decay is a Real Rotter
Marvel Zombies: Dawn of Decay is a surprisingly sad yet electrifying trip through a New York City that’s once again been taken over by zombified superheroes. Who will survive, what will be left of them, and will Groot be too traumatized to deal with the havoc to come?
VIZ Pubwatch November 2024
The unceasing march of time continues, and VIZ media continues to release cool new comics! This month we’re catching up on previously-reviewed series Hirayasumi and Trillion Game and introducing the buzzy new shojo manga Colette Decides to Die. But first, the news.
