Jamie and Iyy team up to bring you their dueling (or not so dueling) viewpoints on the all new She-Hulk #1!
Cosplaying While Black: The Expense of Representing
I have been a comic geek since I was thirteen. I have been a brown-skinned girl all my life. Costuming started as fun for me, but has become equal parts mission and frustration. I started cosplaying when I didn’t even know the word “cosplay”. And forget the resources available to cosplayers these days. Back then?…
Chick at the Flicks: Robocop
“The film also had that jarring weirdly bloodless-yet-still-bloody thing PG-13 action movies do to remind you that violence is violent, but not so much that you can’t take the kids.”
Mysteries of the Arcana: An Interview With J. Gray
One of the most attractive things about webcomics is that there are no walls, no glass ceilings, no One True Right Way to do anything. No one kind of story that’s better to tell than another. No Old Guard demographics gatekeepers telling you you’ll sink your readership if you write about that. Anyone can write about…
Review: Ms. Marvel #1
Ms. Marvel #1 Written by G. Willow Wilson Art by Adrian Alphona & Ian Herring Marvel Comics Cover: Adrian Alphona The new Ms. Marvel being an American-born Pakistani girl from Jersey City made headlines all over the net, the blogosphere, and here at WWAC. The first issue is out--does it live up to the hype?...
My Top Ten Feminist Comic Covers of 2013
For the purposes of this article, I’m narrowing down the definition of feminist to include covers which avoid showcasing the breasts and/or butt of any woman portrayed, avoid poses as viewed between the legs or worm’s eye view directly at the crotch, and which also avoid incorporating those elements with minimizing clothing or otherwise oversexualizing…
Review: All-New X-Factor #1
All-New X-Factor 1 Peter David Carmine DiGiandomenico Jordan D. White 2014 brings us another iteration of the X-Factor team with new characters, costumes, and bad guys! This is no shock to lifelong Marvel fans. The X-Factor team has gone through multiple restarts and roster changes over the past thirty years, as well as multiple team…
Gal Gadot on Gazongas
It started when Zack Snyder announced that Wonder Woman would be appearing in the sequel to his Man of Steel, the highly polarizing Superman movie from 2013. As eager as fans may be to see their favorite costumed heroes showing up on the big screen, they are seemingly ten times harder to please. The moaning and…
Cabin Fever
Winter is a magical time. It contains a lot of holidays as we humans try in our human way to stave off the dark and the cold. One of our favorite ways to do that — at least those of us who have to endure the bitter cold winter weather — is TV! Sadly, due…
Top Ten Holiday Movies
Ok, we lied. We’re counting down our Top 12 Holiday Movies, because we couldn’t stop at just ten. So you’ve unwrapped your gifts, had your breakfast of cookies and ‘nog, and now you’re settling in for the time-honoured tradition of avoiding your family until turkey. Have we got some distractions for you! 12. Hogfather It’s Hogswatchnight, when…
Optimus Prime Reacts to the News that Sam “Thank God for Beef” Witwicky Is a Plagiarizer
He weeps tears like people. If you don’t know why Optimus is crying, yesterday’s hard hitting news post will help with that.