In Marauders #18, Emma Frost has taken the battle directly to Madripoor to hit Homines Verendi where it counts: in the wallet.
Vault Comic Pubwatch: February 2021
Vault is all about your listening pleasure this month, with the announcement of a team up with GraphicAudio to produce Vagrant Queen audiobooks.
REVIEW: Hollow Heart #1 Beats With Heaviness and Hope
Hollow Heart #1 is heavy. It promises a story of pain — of silent pain endured — and it drags you down hard from the moment it begins. It’s not without some sliver of hope within the despair it presents though, as the once-man, now mostly machine named EL finds a connection with a lonely mechanic…
Cover Girl: Doctor Aphra #8
Welcome to Cover Girls. 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, Wendy and Jameson share their thoughts on the cover of Doctor Aphra #8 by Joshua Swaby.
REVIEW: The Black Panther Party Graphic History Offers Knowledge Before Judgement
When people consider the Black Panther Party, thoughts are often mixed, and often negative, no matter one’s race. Through The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History, David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson offer more than enough details to help a reader understand just who the Panthers were and, perhaps, reconsider their views of…
REVIEW: King in Black: Marauders #1 Battens Down the Hatches
I could have sworn Emma Frost was just planning a party while Kate Pryde sorted out the bad guys in Madripoor but suddenly we are off to save symbiote Storm and Cyclops in King in Black: Marauders #1? This is what I get for being too busy to pay enough attention to mainstream comics lately….
Previously on Comics: It’s Ur Birthday
The most important news of this past week is that it was our EiC, Nola’s birthday. Nothing else really matters. Okay, I guess there was some other stuff too:
Star Wars: The Rise of Cade Skywalker
Disney Investor Day 2020 and earlier chatter promise that Disney will be feeding us Star Wars stories for a long time to go. For newer Star Wars fans and those who have not ventured outside the films, this might seem to be overwhelming overkill, but it’s really not new for Star Wars. As Wookieepedia can…
Igniting OMNI Volume 2: An Interview With Melody Cooper
Melting icecaps, raging wildfires and diseases,war—in the world of OMNI, the Earth has had enough. It’s responding to the constant onslaught humans inflict upon it by fighting back. Does one of those ways of fighting back involve granting abilities to certain people? In the first volume of the series, Dr. Cecelia Cobbins discovers her ability…
Vault Comics Pubwatch: January 2021
Though the news is light to start the new year, Vault Comics continues on a steady pace with their titles and many, many gorgeous variant covers, including this one from David Mack for Hollow Heart #1
Ayize Jama-Everett and John Jennings Unpack Their Box of Bones
Horror takes on a whole new meaning when told by and about Black people. With so much of history for people of the African Diaspora bound up in enslavement, it’s difficult to separate any artistic expression from the generational trauma and the continued weight of racism. Though it is as disturbing to read those stories…
REVIEW: Marauders #17: Storm Packs a Powerful Punch
Emma Frost gets down to business in Marauders #17, cleaning up after Sebastian Shaw’s treachery and solidifying Krakoa’s enterprises with the humans. But first, a dance to the death.