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, Kayleigh, Nola, Cori, and Wendy share their thoughts on the cover of Hellions #3 by Steven Segovia and Rain Beredo for Marvel Comics.
Giant-Size X-Men #1: Jean Grey + Emma Frost: Friendship is Psychic
Mutant children at play discover the comatose body of Storm lying in a Krakoan forest. Jean Grey and Emma Frost must team up for a psychic rescue to save her in Giant-Size X-Men #1, and Wendy Browne and Kayleigh Hearn have teamed up to chat about it.
X-Men #7: Mortal Xombat
“Once upon a time, there was a woman who could fly.” – Uncanny X-Men #186, “Lifedeath”
The Poe Clan: Love Song for a Vampirnella
“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.” “And it means something else too, doesn’t it? I shall never ever grow up.” – Interview with the Vampire
Cover Reveal: Marguerite Sauvage’s Tammy & Jinty Special!
Tammy and Jinty are two pioneering British comics for girls — originally published in the 1970s and 80s, they produced girl-centric stories as varied as Bella at the Bar (about a schoolgirl’s love of gymnastics) and The Land of No Tears (a glimpse of a future where emotions are forbidden). Following the success of the…
X-Men #6: The Feminine Mystique
Sometimes a new comic book issue hits the stands and you immediately know what scene people are going to talk about. It could be something gigantic, like a cliffhanger or a shocking death, or it could be something as small as a single panel or, really, a single word. In X-Men #6, that moment comes…
X-Men #5: Lip Synch For Your Life
“It’s done.” Those are the first words of House of X #3, spoken by Cyclops after he’s assembled a team of X-Men for a critically important mission. X-Men #5 opens with a scene that doesn’t echo this moment but challenges it, showing the normally self-assured leader stricken by doubt. “What have I done?” Cyclops wants…
X-Men #4: Be Our Guest, Be Our Guest, Put Our Assassins to the Test
The final indelible image of House of X #1 features Magneto in Jerusalem, resplendent in white, the sun glinting off his helmet. His words provide not only a stunning cliffhanger, but a statement of purpose for the entire X-line going forward: “You have new gods now.” X-Men #4, by Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu,…
Best of WWAC 2019
Best of 2019 lists have been making their way around the internet, but as the year draws to a close, I asked WWAC contributors to take some time to think about themselves. Here, several of our writers talk about the pieces that they are most proud of, either because of what the subject matter means…
The Wedding Issue Grand Finale: Superman and Lois Lane
Aside from “Who would win in a fight?” nothing gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should marry. In our final entry (for now!) of this ongoing mini-feature, Rebecca Henely-Weiss and recent bride Kayleigh Hearn take a trip down memory lane to the most significant times comic companies took…
X-Men #3: OK Bloomer
X-Men #3 Gerry Alanguilan (inker), Rain Beredo (colorist), VC’s Clayton Cowles (letterer), Sonny Gho (colorist), Jonathan Hickman (writer), Tom Muller (design), Leinil Francis Yu (artist & inker) Marvel Comics December 4, 2019 A Krakoan gate is jeopardized, and the X-Men travel to the Savage Land to investigate an unexpected threat. Just the mention of the…