WWE Forever #1 Michael Kingston, Lan Pitts, Derek Fridolfs, Arune Singh, Brent Schoonover (Writing); Brent Schoonover, Derek Fridolfs, Michel Mulipola, Carlos Magno, Kendall Goode (Art); Jim Campbell (Letters); Matias Laborde, Doug Garbark, Fred C. Stresing, Kendall Goode, (Colors); Rahzzah, Kendall Goode, Marco D’Alfonso (covers) BOOM! Studios January 30, 2019 Having launched a successful main line…
A New Slayer Rises in Buffy #1
Buffy the Vampire Slayer#1 Jordie Bellaire (writing); Dan Mora (art); Raul Angulo (colors); Ed Dukeshire (Lettering); Matthew Taylor, Kevin Wada, Dan Panosian, Kaiti Infanti, George Schall, Jonathan Case, Miguel Mercado, Jen Bartel, Becca Carey, Royal Dunlap (covers) January 23, 2019 Boom! Studios After concluding a very long, partially Joss Whedon-written run with Dark Horse that…
Dynamite Pubwatch: Looking Back on January, 2019
Welcome to the Dynamite Comics Pubwatch for the month of February! I’m Lisa, Dynamite is my explosive beat, and here’s this month’s news!
Mommy Issues and Gunfire in Tank Girl: Action Alley #1
Tank Girl: Action Alley #1 Alan Martin, Lou Martin (writing and story); Brett Parson (art, colors, covers A, B and D, and lettering); Greg Staples (cover C) Titan Comics December 19, 2018 For the first time in years, Tank Girl’s got her own ongoing series, and it’s an amusing, raucously funny little book that made…
Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Under The Spell Shows a Goblin’s Worth
Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Under The Spell #1 Jim Campbell (lettering), Michael Dialyns (writing/art), Sina Grace (writing), Rebekah Isaacs (cover), Laura Langston (colors), Boya Sun (art), S.M. Vidaurri (writing), Sarah Webb (art) BOOM! Studios/Archaia December, 2018 BOOM! Studios begins a brand-new series of tales about Jim Henson’s Labyrinth in Under the Spell #1, an anthology series…
WWAC’s Favorite Big Press Comics of 2018
Well, the corpses of Christmas Trees are littering the sidewalk and all the champagne bottles have been popped, so as we usher in 2019 it seems the perfect time for quiet reflection. But not on New Year’s Resolutions, silly. On comic books! WWAC has rounded up its contributors to share their favorite big press comics…
Cover Girl: Red Sonja #25
Welcome to Cover Girl. 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, Lisa, Claire, Kayleigh, Amanda, Laura, and Louis discuss Erica Henderson’s variant cover of Red Sonja #25.
Ordinary Girls, Not Yet Ordinary Women: Clueless: One Last Summer
Clueless: One Last Summer Amber Benson and Sarah Kuhn (writing); Siobhan Keenan (art); Cathy Le (colors); Jim Campbell (letters); Natacha Bustos (cover art) BOOM! Studios December, 2018 For ’90s kids who rented it every weekend from Blockbuster, Clueless represented something iconic. Delicious costuming, arch one-liners, and relatably memorable moments (Tai knocking herself out while dancing!…
All Good Things Must Come to An End: WWAC Reviews Dream Daddy 5
Welcome back for our last installment of WWAC Reviews the Oni Press Dream Daddy series! Issue #5 is the last issue in the series, written by Josh Trujillo with art by D.J. Kirkland. In this review we talk about the issue, the strengths of the series, and what we would want if (fingers crossed) the…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2: Back in Red and Better Than Ever?
Dystopian literature is all the rage these days — and given the current state of the world, it makes sense. While a new generation of dystopian authors emerges, the works of older authors have gained a second life. None have seemed to stand the tests of time longer than The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Fans of the…
A Beautiful Genius Gets Her Just Due in Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life
Hedy Lamarr was as multifaceted as a diamond. The number of things she accomplished in her lifetime is startling when you sit down to count them. In her time, she was revered for her beauty, a star who acted in a-list pictures with Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, and Jimmy Stewart. She was the first woman…
WWAC Reviews: Dream Daddy #4 – Dad vs Dad!
Welcome back again for another group review of Oni Press’s Dream Daddy series! Issue #4 just hit the racks—this time it’s written by C. Spike Trotman, and we’ve got some more thoughts. See previous reviews here, here and here!