Welcome to the WWAC Pride Month LGBTQ+ manga roundtable! Our manga-loving contributors sat down to talk about their favorite series, trends in LGBTQ+ manga, LGBT content in manga overall, and what we’re looking forward to this pride month.
REVIEW: A Dialogue on Body Positivity in Embrace Your Size Manga
When I first heard about Embrace Your Size, I was super pumped and immediately shared it with a friend of mine. She and I read a lot of manga together, and we both noticed how rarely manga depicted anyone who looks like us. So for us, having body positivity be the central theme of a…
REVIEW: She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat
Finding the relationship you need is a nourishing experience. Even more so when food is involved. A comforting slice-of-life manga, She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat volume 1, is about two neighbors bonding over food and cultivating a new caring space for each other.
REVIEW: The Night Eaters Book One Needs Another Helping
A new horror collaboration between Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night is a family horror story even before they introduce the demons. Set during the 2020 pandemic, the story explores the complexities of family dynamics with a nice helping of demonic energy.
REVIEW: IDW’s Earthdivers Dives Right In
The mission is simple. Go back in time. Kill Christopher Columbus. Save the world. Stop the harm to generations that Europeans caused. Stop two apocalypses. Easy. But at what cost? That is the question that creators Stephen Graham Jones and Davide Gianfelice explore in the new ongoing series Earthdivers.
WWACommendations: Robo Sapiens, Pyramid Game, Maison Ikkoku and More
Welcome back to WWACommendations! Did you miss us? I always miss us. Never fear — we’re here with hot, fresh recommendations, a hilarious number of which come indirectly from WWAC Manga Editor Masha Zhdanova. It’s probably no surprise that we frequently swap recommendations, but I love seeing evidence of that behind-the-scenes chit chat. It gives…
REVIEW: Fujimoto’s Look Back Lures You In and Leaves You
I don’t know if I’ll ever read Chainsaw Man but after reading Tatsuki Fuijimoto’s one-shot manga Look Back I might have to. Capturing youthful arrogance and harsh reality, Fujimoto bewitches you in this emotional exploration of the effects we have on each other.
REVIEW: “I Want To Be a Wall” Is a Winner
The premise for I Want to Be a Wall is too great to not garner attention. An asexual, aromantic boys love (BL) fan marries a gay man still in love with his childhood best friend. The first volume of this quirky manga is a sweet slice of life story about a married couple who will…
REVIEW: The Legend of Auntie Po: We Make Our Own Gods
Shing Yin Khor’s Eisner-nominated The Legend of Auntie Po is a fantastical re-imagining of the place that American gods like Paul Bunyan have in our imagination. The story takes place in a logging camp nestled within the Sierra Nevadas between 1885 and 1886 and is told through the eyes of 13 year-old Mei, a Chinese-American…
Roundtable: Creativity, Canvases, and Camaraderie, a Celebration of Akiko Higashimura
Akiko Higashimura is a manga legend. Since her debut in 1999, she’s been publishing award-winning hit comic after award-winning hit comic (including Princess Jellyfish, Blank Canvas, and Tokyo Tarareba Girls) and has now branched out to Webtoons in addition to serialized print manga. Paulina Przystupa got the WWAC crew together to discuss her long and…
Oscars Roundtable: Villains, Faves, and The Ceremony
It’s been a strange time for film-making — working around COVID protocols, virtual festivals, and audiences reluctant to head out to the theatres have all been obstacles no one has figured out how to circumvent. Even the Oscars got rescheduled, and while this year everyone was in the theatre and unmasked, the ceremony still felt…
REVIEW: She-Hulk #1 Isn’t a Smash
It’s been a while since I’ve read a She-Hulk book and nothing makes me happier than seeing my big green lawyer lady on an excellent cover. Jen Bartel continues to bring her A-Game to our gentle giant and I love it. However, beyond some good looks, this wasn’t a good first issue.