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…
Four-Color to Forearms: WWACers and Comic Book Tattoos
Tattoos are a way to permanently declare your allegiance, your identification, your love. It should be no surprise, then, that a lot of WWAC contributors have fabulous comics tattoos. If you’re considering a comics tattoo yourself (I am!), let this photo gallery serve as inspiration.
X-Force #4: No Moral Compass Except Nationalism
Four issues of X-Force, and I’m once again revising my opinion. I’m very annoyed with this book and its continual ups and downs!
X-Force #3: A Double-Edged Sword of Damocles
After strongly disliking the first issue, and rather enjoying the second, I suppose it’s fitting that here at the third, I feel…simply fine. It’s worth noting that due to the double-sized first issues of the entire Dawn of X line, this would normally be the fourth installment of the series and a culmination of the…
Con Diary: Geek Girl Con ’19
Last year I declared Geek Girl Con my ideal convention experience. It came at the right time, a hard time, and it was a huge, necessary step in deciding how I want to live my life. I’m pleased to report that this year that holds true despite some absolutely incredible convention experiences.
Cover Girl: The Amazing Mary Jane #1
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, Nola, Claire, Wendy, and Emma examine Humberto Ramos’s cover of The Amazing Mary Jane #1.
The Performative Horniness of Dawn of X
Adjoining bedrooms. That was all it took for the X-Men’s most infamous love triangle to suddenly become a canon poly triad in the minds of fans everywhere. Elsewhere in the same issue, we bore witness to Corsair’s partner hitting on Rachel Summers, his granddaughter, another character generally accepted as queer despite only the most subtextual…
X-Force #2 Forces the Issue of Death
X-Force #2 Joe Caramagna (Letters), Joshua Cassara (Art), Tom Muller (Design), Benjamin Percy (Writing), Dean White (Colors) Marvel Comics November 27th, 2019 I was not kind in my review of the first issue of the new X-Force title. It’s not the worst of the Dawn of X books, but it certainly was not a strong opener; it led…
Previously on Comics: For Your Consideration
Happy Monday! Did you know Tres Dean has a new book out? Well, he does! That’s definitely the only reason people should be discussing him publicly this week. We have a few obits to get out of the way: Tom Lyle, co-creator of Starman (Will Payton) and Stephanie Brown, famed for his runs on Spider-Man,…
X-Men Book Club: Justice for Madelyne Pryor
Madelyne Pryor first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #168 as a seemingly normal woman who bore an uncanny (ha) resemblance to the dead X-Man Jean Grey. Jean’s lover Cyclops rushed to marry Madelyne and had a child with her, but abandoned them both when Jean returned from the dead. Madelyne allied herself with the X-Men for…
Fallen Angels #1 Has A Rough Landing
Fallen Angels #1 Frank D’Armata (colors), Bryan Edward Hill (writing), Szymon Kudranski (artist), Tom Muller (design), Joe Sabino (letters) Marvel Comics November 13, 2019 In an interview with Adventures In Poor Taste, X-Men Group Editor Jordan White clarified that the reason we would see the newly-reestablished Kwannon going by the codename of Psylocke, as well…
Adoption Papers for Rahne Sinclair
New Mutants #1, in addition to being a great issue in its own right, had a very important highlight: like other mutants, Rahne Sinclair is alive again. That brings us to an important point of discussion regarding her: She’s ours now. By ‘ours’, of course, I mean that she belongs to trans people. You may…