Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring a woman. This month Ray, Alexis, Kayleigh, Veronique, and Melissa got together to talk about the cover to My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, the hit queer manga memoir by Nagata Kabi and published in English by Seven…
Quiz: Which Misfit Are You?
Today we are here to answer the eternal question– from IDW’s Jem and the Holograms spin-off band ultimate rivals, which Misfit are you? Write your answers down, and at the end of the quiz tally up your points to see who you are. Okay? Let’s rock! Q1. Someone’s wronged you, how do you take it? Revenge Channel…
Cover Girl: Coady and the Creepies #1
Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring a woman. This month Melissa, Alenka, Alexis and Rosie look at Coadie and the Creepies #1.
Power and Magic Anthology Review: The Magic of Queerness
Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology Joamette Gil (Editor) P&M Press January, 2017 Inside all queer people is magic. When honed correctly we can cast our magic out and spread a rainbow that can save others. One such spell has been cast and I have had the pleasure to have fallen under it….
Gal Pals: Bigoted Company Marvel Tries to Erase Lesbian Heroes
I could have a career just writing about the times Marvel misunderstood, insulted, offended, or attacked marginalized people. However, even I was shocked seeing this article go up at Marvel (it has since been edited). Marvel’s history with LGBT+ people isn’t exactly positive but I never expected an article that would read as such a…
Cover Girl: Quantum Teens Are Go!
This month the Cover Girl team discusses Eryk Donovan’s cover to Quantum Teens Are Go #1. Written by Mags Visaggio with pencils by Eryk Donovan and colouring by Claudia Aguirre, it dropped on February 22, 2017.
Flashfic: Living Our Best Gaming Lives
One of the things we love most about gaming is the ability to lose ourselves in other worlds. If our gamer motivation profiles are anything to go by, it’s clear that immersion is high the list of elements we look for in a game. We are the kind of people who take the time to truly…
Phantom of the Kill VS Fire Emblem Heroes
Fire Emblem is a franchise that sets the standard for strategy role playing games. A world filled with characters fighting for their ideals in a conflict that generally ends with a big dragon. Fire Emblem is one of my favorite franchises ever and, while I did not love the most recent entries (the multiple versions…
Happy Trans Lesbian of Colour: Why Sera Matters
It should be easy to imagine how important representation in the media is for trans people. Sadly, in comics, 2016 saw the active removal of a lot of trans representation, and some very poor cash-ins on the community too. One such removal was Sera, a trans woman of color in a lovely, committed relationship with…
Nintendo Switch Report
Nintendo Switch information was finally released on January 1, 2017. While there was a ton of information dropped, we can expect even more news to be released over the coming days as Nintendo does streams, developers share news, and so on.
Chalice Can’t Contain Our Hope: How Alters’ Marketing Alienates
Being trans can be lonely, it can be scary, it can be sad. It can be so many things at once, especially in these dark times. For so long we’ve wanted to see trans heroes. People who defy their assigned gender and still manage to fight the big fights. Alters, a book published by an exciting,…
LGBT Stands For Heroes
Queer, trans, and queer trans people have been leading the fights of activist movements for many, many years. Queer folks’ contributions are often overlooked, but from LGBT movements, like Stonewall, to modern movements, like Black Lives Matters, trans women of color, in particular, have been on the front line fighting for the advancement of society….