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, Claire, Kayleigh, and Nola examine Greg Land’s variant cover of Powers of X #4 from Marvel Comics.
Powers of X #3: The Case For A New Phoenix
Powers of X #3 VC’s Clayton Cowles (letterer), Marte Gracia (colors), Jonathan Hickman (writer), Tom Muller (design), R.B. Silva (artist) Marvel Comics August 14, 2019 A really great mystery story unlocks in stages. It’s hard to do, but if done well, as in Powers of X #3, you’re left with just enough to work with…
Previously on Comics: FINALLY
Folks, it happened. I didn’t once have to write about harassment for a Previously column! What an incredible milestone (please no one ruin this for me)! Let’s dive right in: Creator, Editor, and Force of Nature Steenz is going to be teaching cartooning at Webster University! Is it too late to enroll? Look, I just…
SDCC 2019: The Batman Experience
The trouble with museums is they’re not very exciting. Now that I can hear all of my friends in history and academia removing their earrings and cracking their knuckles, what I mean is that museums are meant, in their general design, to be more of a quiet, contemplative experience. While that’s a perfectly enjoyable thing…
House of X: A Question of the Damage Done
I’m trying to think about how to tackle this. House of X is X-Men, right? It’s…different. There’s that idea that after a definitive run on a book, usually by that book’s creators, everything else is just well-financed fan fiction. I have…some issues with that concept, but it’s hard to deny the idea that a lot…
Sera and the Royal Stars #1: It’s Complicated
Sera and the Royal Stars #1 Raúl Angulo (colorist), Jim Campbell (letterer), Audrey Mok (artist), Jon Tsuei (writer) Vault Comics July 17, 2019 Sera and the Royal Stars gives me super complicated feelings! I’m not usually so bombastic when I start a review, but it does! It’s the story of a princess’ quest in ancient Parsa…
She Said Destroy #2 Is In Full Sprint
She Said Destroy #2 Corallo, Kangas, Nalty, Ujimori Vault Comics July 3, 2019 I can describe She Said Destroy in a word: breathless. I commented on that last time, the way that the story moves at a breakneck pace, and it only continues here in the second issue.
Cover Girl: Prism Stalker #5
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, Louis, Nola, and Laura discuss the cover of Prism Stalker #5 from Image Comics.
Previously on Comics: Wrath
Good morning! Wrath month has begun. Last week, Marvel announced that they’re providing one-act plays starring their characters for high school drama classes to put on. Part of that announcement includes that “licensing fees will be kept reasonable,” because apparently Marvel literally has not heard of doing a good thing for a good thing’s sake….
Nola Pfau’s Redeye for That Cyclops Guy
In an effort to trick WWAC contributors into writing profile essays about their favourite character, I may have bitten off more than I can chew when it comes to Nola Pfau and her love of Scott Summers. While I don’t hate the character, I’m certainly not fond of him, and there are those who feel…
Trans Girls Hit The Town is Too Real
Trans Girls Hit The Town Emma Jayne Diskette Press April 2019 Yesterday, while out with some friends, I found myself starting to spiral. We were hanging out in a department store, laughing at absurdly expensive articles of clothing, and as amusing as it was, I was suddenly struck with the pernicious idea that none of this…
She Said Destroy is an Apocalypse in Pastel
She Said Destroy #1 Corallo, Kangas, Nalty, Ujimori Vault Comics May 29, 2019 I’ve been trying to think about how to approach She Said Destroy. I suppose I’ll start with “it’s a book of its time.” The world that its team is creating here has a fairy tale sort of quality. Looking at the first…