Christa: Last month I talked about how I hadn’t had much time for reading. This month I’ve had a bit more time but now the problem is motivation. There are plenty of books I want to read, but I never really feel like reading. So most of the books beside my bed are half finished,…
Mosquitoland, Bone Gap & The Mermaid’s Sister: Cool Books of March!
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland Catherynne Valente (w), Ana Juan (a) Feiwel & Friends March 3, 2015 The Fairyland series continues! Thankfully. I thought it was over after The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two. Valente’s writing inspires envy in me. Her description of food and colors is vivid…and mouthwatering….
Ms. Marvel, Jem, He-Man & Nailbiter: Cool Comics of March!
Ms. Marvel Volume 2: Generation Why Willow Wilson (W), Jacob Wyatt (A), Adrian Alphona (A) Marvel March 24, 2015 I’ve been reading Ms. Marvel in trade, and I am so excited for volume 2. I didn’t get around to reading the first volume right when it came out, but when I did, I was in…
Drink Your Comics: Comic Character Concotions
For this month’s Drink Your Comics, we decided to take our cue from Dark Horse. The company recently teamed with Rouge Ales to create a Hellboy inspired boozy beverage. The result: Right Hand of Doom Red Ale. Thus, I prompted our staff and contributors to create and/or share their own alcoholic concoction based on one of…
Geek Spotlight: Emily Zeinner on Judge Dredd, Nail Art, and Unflattering Geek Clothing
WWAC Assistant Editor Claire Napier, was the first to alert me to the awesome nail art of Emily Zeinner. I went to Twitter to explore her and not only stumbled across awesome nail art, but also other great geek artwork and fashion projects. Zeinner is a San Francisco based artist, and fortunately took time out of…
Review: Red Sonja Goes Steampunk in Legenderry Red Sonja #1
Legenderry Red Sonja #1 Marc Andreyko (w), Aneke (a) Joe Benitez & Ivan Nunes (cover A) Cedric Poulat (cover B) Sergio Fernandez Davila & Ivan Nunes (cover C) Admittedly, I haven’t read any of the Legenderry series. I read Fables for awhile, but stopped after Snow married Bigby because she then became drastically less interesting…
Con Season Survival Guide
Con season is already underway for many of us, and while surviving a con may not be as stressful as surviving a zombie apocalypse, they’re pretty damn close. So, I polled our amazing staff and contributors, who are seasoned con pros, mind you, to share their tips for surviving con season.
Swallowing Your Privilege: Writing and Making a Living
Privilege is a hard pill to swallow, especially growing up in the mythos of Puritanical-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-idle-hands-are-the-devil’s-plaything-etc. America. But, like the giant antibiotics I’m taking right now for an upper respiratory infection, you have to swallow those enormous pills, all of them. Okay, the metaphor may be clumsy, but I keep getting those damn horse pills lodged…
Barbarian Babe Brawl: Date Night With WWAC
Let’s see? Would my date with Red Sonja be sexy-sex date, a cute romance date, or a friend date? Well, ideally, it would be all three! The premise would begin with learning some self-defense and anti-heroics from Red Sonja (I mean who could a better choice for this?!). I would ask her to show me…
Movies That Shaped Me: Red Sonja
Red Sonja Directed by Richard Fleischer Written by Clive Exton & George MacDonald Fraser Starring: Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul L. Smith, Ernie Reyes Jr. Dino De Laurentiis Company PG-13, 89 minutes 1985 Red Sonja (1985) is a horrible movie. The dialogue is cliche, the acting flat, and there are inexplicable plot holes….
Dogears: Blasphemy!
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady Florence King St. Martin’s Originally published in 1985, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady combines some of my favorite genres: memoir and the American South. I am a born and raised Texan (which straddles the line between the South and the West). Southern fiction writers such as Flannery O’Conner,…
On Make-up and Femininity: WWAC Talks Make-Up
Make-up seems pretty quotidian, but it is a loaded sociocultural issue especially when you feel like it’s something you have to do to be female enough. The WWAC folk got together to discuss how our relationships to make-up and how it’s never quite so easy as yay/nay. We hope our contemplations will spur your own, and…