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REVIEW: X-Men #2 – Annihilation Now!
With a title like “Catching the Wave,” X-Men #2 can only be one thing: a beach issue! Get ready for lots of sand, sun, and surf for our merry mutants. Cyclops in a Speedo! Jean’s mask giving her weird tan lines! Rogue ruining the volleyball game and spiking the ball straight to Bugtussle, Tennessee! Wolverine…
REVIEW: X-Men #1 – The Mutants Take Manhattan
“Remind me again why I said we needed to be in New York?”
REVIEW: Planet-Size X-Men #1 Teleports Us to Mars
Humans of the planet Earth. While you slept, another world changed.
REVIEW: X-Men #20 – Burning Hearts
The future looms as Nimrod awakens! Unfortunately for Orchis, Mystique has annihilation on her mind in the penultimate issue of Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men.
REVIEW: Army of the Dead – Face it, Zombie Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot
Invoking the late icon with sequined jumpsuits and sculpted waves of black hair, Elvis impersonators are already the walking dead—Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead only takes the extra step of turning them into flesh-eating zombies. Parachuting onto Netflix after a limited theatrical release, Snyder’s exhilarating return to the zombie genre turns the hedonistic joy…
REVIEW: X-Men #19 – Days of Future, Passed
The City inside the Vault is, at its core, a paradox. As the name suggests, its very existence is an enigma: simultaneously infinite and claustrophobic, it appears post-apocalyptically empty but hides a deadly enemy around every corner. The “genesis tomb” of the Children of the Vault, superpowered post-humans genetically designed for world domination, the City…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Wild, Weird Writing: Charlotte Brontë, Welcome to Die
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Brussels, 1892. In a second hand book stall, a professor finds the leather-bound manuscript of High Life in Verdopolis, a novella set in the fantastic kingdom of Glass Town imagined by…
WWAC Reads!
If you’d like a reading recommendation of any kind, WWAC has your back. Here at WWAC, our recent voracious reading has been varied. Lots of us have been cozying up with recent celebrated speculative fiction, WWAC Boss Publisher Wendy Browne has been delving into nonfiction, and I recently read an exciting Young Adult novel that…
REVIEW: X-Men #18 – Enter Lockdown
“From this point forward, you cannot depend on time to function in any manner resembling normal. It waxes and wanes, like temporal tides.”
REVIEW: Eternals #2 – Ikaris Burning an Eternal Flame
Ikaris versus Thanos! Eternal versus Titan! Thrill as the most formidable fists in the galaxy punch through time and space, bruising reality itself!