Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for September! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In September’s Pubwatch, there are interviews, plenty of new variant covers, and much more!
TIFF 2024 Review: Can I Get a Witness? Begs Humanity to Fix Itself Before We Need to Make Extreme Sacrifices
How far will humanity go to save itself and the planet? Are we willing to make the sacrifices called for to ensure the next generation doesn’t suffer like ours? In Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness?, the audience is asked to bear witness to the extreme choices humanity must make to survive.
REVIEW: Big Jim and the White Boy Gives an American Classic the Political Reimagining it Needs
You thought you knew the story – a 14-year-old boy escapes his abusive father to go on a grand-adventure with an enslaved man accused of murder. But what if Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told the wrong story? Big Jim and the White Boy revisits Twain’s classic tale from a fresh perspective and a…
TIFF 2024 Review: Love in the Big City Is Full of Cliches and Tropes, But It Somehow Makes You Love It
Based on the novel by Korean author Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City is a coming-of-age and coming-out story set in Seoul, against a backdrop of a society too rigid to accept people who are different.
Previously On: What Happens When Creators Do Business, Plus Stan Lee’s Home is For Sale
Strap yourselves in, readers, because this week’s Previously will take you on a journey. Happy Fall and for our Canadian readers, enjoy the long weekend for Thanksgiving.
ESSAY: Dead at 55: John Russo at Avatar Press (2005-2011)
Content warning: This article contains illustrated scenes of graphic violence, including sexual violence. Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
TIFF 2024 Review: The Deb Is Funny, Musical, and a Reminder for Young Girls that Love Isn’t the Only Goal in Life
Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut The Deb takes place in a small town in Australia, where a big city girl finds herself tackling an archaic tradition of the patriarchy, a debutante ball, while trying to support her small-town cousin’s dream of finally attending the annual event.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: EC’s Cruel Universe #4!
WWAC presents an exclusive preview of EC’s Cruel Universe #4, coming soon from Oni Press!
ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: Vampires in the American Canon
AMC’s Interview with the Vampire saw its second season this year, along with news that it had been renewed for a third season. There is evidently still life in the Anne Rice books which formed the basis of the series and gave the world the vampire antiheroes, Louis and Lestat.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Frank Miller’s Pandora Book 1!
WWAC is thrilled to present an exclusive preview of Frank Miller’s Pandora (Book 1), coming soon from Frank Miller Presents and Abrams ComicArts!
REVIEW: Loving, Ohio Exposes the Monsters of a Small-Town Cult
Sloane is a high school senior in Loving, Ohio, a small town that seems perfectly normal from the outside. As someone who’s spent her entire life in Loving, however, Sloane is uncomfortably familiar with a hidden facet of the town that’s not a secret to its residents. Loving is the center of a new religious…
EXCLUSIVE: Eat Your Heart Out Vol. 2 Cover Reveal!
WWAC is excited to present the exclusive cover reveal to Eat Your Heart Out Volume 2, coming soon from Oni Press!