Content warning: mentions of sexual abuse and rape. While much of the entertainment industry seems to be at a pause, animators everywhere continue to work behind their screens and working stations without interruption. Live-action productions — endeavors that require physical contact and varying degrees of intimacy — are mostly at a standstill due to an…
REVIEW: Gudetama: Adulting for the Lazy Is Not Entirely What It’s Cracked Up To Be
If one thing is for certain, I personally would not trust life advice from a famously lazy, talking egg. Although Gudetama seems like it never says much, it has a few words to say in Gudetama: Adulting for the Lazy. Gudetama has advice to give for all young adults struggling out there, from dealing with office…
The Savage Beard of She Dwarf Is a Colorful Adventure
Believing herself to be the last dwarf in existence, She Dwarf is determined to find the lost dwarven city of Dammerung. Many obstacles will interrupt this arduous journey, but She Dwarf is inspired by thoughts of her late mother’s heroism. Gaining both allies and enemies along the way, will finding Dammerung bring the answers she…
The Artemis Fowl Movie Is What No One Wanted and More
This review contains spoilers for Artemis Fowl (2020). Fifteen years ago, if I was told that an Artemis Fowl movie adaptation was definitely going to happen, I would have been incredibly excited. But after seeing what I just saw, in this holy year of 2020, I’m not sure I would have wanted this.
Rick and Morty Go to Hell Is Exactly What It Says On the Bill
Rick and Morty somehow landed themselves in what literally looks like to be Hell. All signs point to Morty that this might actually be the real deal while Rick continues to vehemently deny it. As the two find themselves stuck in another hairy place, what sort of shenanigans will Rick drag Morty into again in…
She Kills Barely Started and It’s Already Awful
Content warning: This work contains depictions of violence and suggestions of sexual violence. A Tongva Native American woman who goes by the name of She Kills lives within the lawless, dangerous territory of Los Angeles, where only mobs and violence rule. She Kills struggles to fend off many evils while having to protect her young…
Cover Girl: Shadow Service #1
Welcome to Cover Girls. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month Claire, Nola, Wendy, Louis, Kate, and Elvie look at the cover of Shadow Service #1 by Corin M. Howell, with colours by Triona Farrell.
Nils’ Interesting Concepts Don’t Help Its Slovenly Storytelling
The Elementals, spirits of life, have seemingly abandoned the world. Nature has overgrown and enveloped the majority of the planet, resources have grown scarce, and humanity has regressed into divided factions. A young boy named Nils and his father, a scientist named Ruben, journey to the north when their grounds grow infertile, only to find…
Comics New Year’s Resolutions
It’s that time of year where we all vow to improve ourselves from the year before, be it more trips to the gym or getting out of debt. But what of comics New Year’s resolutions? What do you want to change for the better about your comics habits? Whether it’s trying manga for the first…
Peering Through a Different Lens in Stargazing
Stargazing Jen Wang (artist & writer), Lark Pien (colors) September 10, 2019 First Second Jen Wang, creator of The Prince and the Dressmaker and contributor to several Adventure Time: Fiona & Cake comics, draws from her own life in this personal exploration of identity through simple childhood pleasantries and a budding friendship.
Are You Listening? Is a Road Trip Through Wistful, Empty Roads
Are You Listening? Tillie Walden (artist & writer) August 7, 2019 First Second Content warning: This work contains references to sexual assault. “The guidebooks play deception; oceans are A property of mind. All maps are fiction, All travelers come to separate frontiers.” -Adrienne Rich, Itinerary When two young women face a chance encounter on the…
Cheshire Crossing Is Rightfully the Messy Fanfic It Knows It Is
Cheshire Crossing Andy Weir (writer), Sarah Andersen (illustrator), Alison George (colors) July 9, 2019 Ten Speed Press Time and time again, writers explore the what-if’s and rhetorical epilogues of iconic, fantastical worlds in classic literature. How did Alice’s experiences in Wonderland affect her? How does Dorothy Gale fare back in Kansas after leaving the wonderful…