What better way to enjoy cocktails, comics, and swiftly approaching Halloween than with witch comic inspired cocktails? Between Harrow County, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Wytches, Toil & Trouble, and others, there’s plenty out there that helped inspire this installment of Drink Your Comics.
Manga are Comics. Comics are Manga.
In the world of visual storytelling, there exists a divide. You see, there are manga fans, and there are comics fans, and seldom the twain do meet.
Flaming Gingers: Deadliest Video Game Redheads
We’ve covered anime redheads. The books section has their literary gingers. And of course there’s the original comic book superheroes and villainous redheads. You love WWAC’s redhead collections as much as we do! Now it’s time for the games section to get on the ginger train with our pick of the deadliest video game redheads.
Five Trick Questions: Twin Peaks or Claremont’s X-Men?
With a variety of artist collaborators, Chris Claremont wrote the X-Men for sixteen straight years, and then came back later for more. Frost & Lynch’s Twin Peaks had a much shorter run, but is currently readying itself for a return. Both are definitive examples of whatever they are—imperfect, but unputdownable—and there is more than one place in which…
The Story of Our Tits: A Roundtable About Breasts
Breasts! A surprisingly controversial topic for appendages that occur on many humans. In a recent discussion on how to discuss breast and bra size, we realized that this topic really needed to be discussed out in the open, much like our previous discussions on body hair. We at WWAC are always ready to talk about…
Sex Comics 2: You Learn From the Bad Times
We went over some nice sex comics, where everyone is happy, and I hope you found something to enjoy. This time, it’s Halloween month—and at Halloween, sex gets different. All sorts of sex-and-horror analysis is out there for you to find (or write! Wanna write something like that for us?), but right here right now…
4 Takes On the Role of the Direct Market in Growing “Comics” (Or Not)
This article is a part of a blog carnival hosted by Women Write About Comics, and is a collection of responses to this question, posed by Nick Hanover of Loser City: “Is it possible for comics to grow sustainably if the direct market continues to dominate distribution?” Kat Overland: I think it’s hard know, first,…
Five Times Jean Grey Got Kissed And Didn’t Expect It
While I was looking for images with which to furnish the Top Five Scott & Jean Moments, it turned out to be rather easier to stumble across Jean being kissed (or almost kissed) and being shocked about it, than finding pictures of Jean and Scott. Jean: one of the founding five X-Men, perhaps the most…
Ex-Men: The Top Five Pre-Phoenix Scott and Jean Moments
Scott Summers and Jean Grey: the OTP of the X-Men. Right? Well, maybe not, but for a lot of us, growing up they were the only couple we could rely upon to be, forever, “a thing.” Comics, cartoons, live-action films—Scott and Jean, Jean and Scott, we like dysfunction, it is hot. Maybe we didn’t like…
Five Times the Grey-Summers Family Tree Got Weird
X-Men history time again! Today we take a look at the Grey-Summers family—clones, time-travel, and all. After her first clone died, Scott Summers married a second clone of his dead girlfriend. For today’s purposes, there are three Jean Greys: Jean Phoenix Jean Madelyne Pryor Scott Summers’ DNA and Jean Grey’s DNA have been combined several…
The Major’s Body (10): Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig
Boys, Sex, and Love Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig is the second season of the weekly anime, covered here, and a direct thematic continuation. I might love it even more than Stand Alone Complex. [Oshii said] “And with Motoko Kusanagi, I had trouble putting my finger on the true identity of…
Pre-Orders, Debt, Timekeeping: The Stressful Economics of Indie Comics
Today we’re talking about the absurd economics of comic books. It feels strange and rude, asking ugly questions about income and insider knowledge. But what does the readership of a comic know about the economics behind the book in their hand or on their screen? Not as much as they, or we, could–and that’s a shame, because ignorance…