How perfectly serendipitous. I recently interviewed the amazing Jacque Nodell, a romance comic historian, about her site Sequential Crush and her research in romance comics. When I asked her if she thought there was a current romance genre in comics, she said while there are comics with “romantic elements and romantic fare from overseas, such…
Legenderry: Red Sonja #2 or What Happens When You Give Red Sonja a Rocket Launcher
Legenderry: Red Sonja #2 Marc Andreyko (w) Aneke (a) Sergio Fernandez Davila (c) Dynamite March 18, 2015
WWAC Warrior: Why I Can Be a Warrior Without a Six-Pack
Our WWAC Warriors have been doing some great and inspiring work. Desiree has been working on becoming her own superhero. Laura is morphing into a real live Batgirl, and Lela is fighting endometriosis like Wonder Woman versus Villainy Incorporated. I am thoroughly impressed with what they are doing, and how they are tying their fitness…
Compulsive Reading: Some Notes On How We Read Mental Health
Megan Purdy asks the questions in this round table discussion responding to several comics tackling mental illness, and its resultant behaviours. Sara Lautman’s comic Some Notes on Compulsive Hair Pulling is beautiful and affecting. The comic is about Lautman’s struggle with trichotillomania: how she got her diagnosis; how she deals with it; how she relates,…
Wonder Woman’s New Outfit: Crotch Flap and Confusion
Wonder Woman has a new outfit! A full coverage outfit! We ought to be happy about this, right? Getting her out of panties and into something more demure is what we want, right? Well… actually…
Drink Your Comics: Star Wars Style
In case you live under a rock, Marvel’s Princess Leia comic debuted this month. Now it might not come as a shock to you, but we here at Women Write About Comics are pretty into Star Wars. Our own Annie Bulloch has already reviewed Star Wars #1 and Darth Vadar #1 and is currently working on…
Review: Lady Killer Takes 1950s Nostalgia to Task in Issue #3
Lady Killer #3 Joelle Jones & Jamie S. Rich (W), Joelle Jones (A), Laura Allred (C) Dark Horse March 4, 2015 Lady Killer continues with a look into how our lovely assassin balances the demands of her domestic life with her highly secretive work. It’s a delightful exaggeration of an ongoing sexist issue in a setting frequently…
Crushing on Romance Comics: An Interview with Historian Jacque Nodell
A few months ago, I stumbled across a lovely little gem at my local used bookstore, a collection of Marvel romance comics. Being a comic geek and recovering academic, this obviously began a spiral of research into romance comics. Along the way, I stumbled across Jacque Nodell’s blog Sequential Crush. Jacque is a romance comic historian,…
Dogears: Fantasy, Feminism and Child Stars
All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1) Ally Carter Scholastic January 20 2015 I love Ally Carter and she’s one of the few authors that I consider an autobuy thanks to her wonderful Gallagher Girls & Heist Society series. Sadly, this new series started out not with a bang but a pretty disappointing whisper. Its lead,…
Life Geek: Bookshelfies Edition
Do you know exactly where all your books are located? When you go over to someone’s house for the first time, do you zero in on their book collection in order to determine if you are kindred spirits? Is loaning a book to someone a silent act of genuine trust for you? If you answered…
A Trip Down Fear Street: What I Learned about Dating from Fear Street
After a brief hiatus, A Trip Down Fear Street is back! This time with handy-dandy lists. For the month of love, I decided to read, appropriately enough, love themed books from the series: First Date (no. 16, 1992), Double Date (no. 23, 1994), and Killer’s Kiss (no. 42, 1997). Because Fear Street was often targeted…
Review Red Sonja #100: Female Brains Destroy Men!
Red Sonja #100 Dave Acosta, Pablo Marcus, Taki Soma, Noah Salonga, Sergio Fernandez Davila (a) Eric Trautman, Roy Thomas, Michael Avon Oeming, Gail Simone, Luke Lieberman Dynamite February 2015 Dynamite is going big this year in celebration of Red Sonja’s decade with them. And who wouldn’t want to celebrate the She-Devil with a Sword? She’s long…