Beautifully painted with soft, flowing watercolours, The Wayfarin’ Stranger Meets the Lady Pirate reads like a song for the eyes.
REVIEW: Marauders #11: The Funeral We’ve All Been Waiting For
We’ve been holding out hope for Kate Pryde’s resurrection, but Marauders #11’s funereal cover has been preparing us for the worst.
INTERVIEW: Ask for Mercy: A World of Disquiet Brings Richard Starkings and Abigail Jill Harding’s Monster Hunters to Apocalypse 2020
In season one of the fantasy horror comic, Ask For Mercy, mild-mannered real estate agent Mercy discovered there was far more to her potential when she is snatched into World War II to hunt Nazis and other monsters in The Key To Forever. In season two, The Heart of the Earth, the intrepid team of…
Previously On Comics: It’s a Good News Week – Huzzah!
It’s my turn to write the news roundup for the week, and how sweet it is to see that, at least for the moment, the major events are positive!
REVIEW: Bad Mother #1 Taps Into a Parent’s Worst Nightmare
We know what Liam Neeson is capable of if you mess with his teenage daughter, but what about a middle-aged suburbanite mom whose dreary life is circling the drain? Better yet, what if her daughter gets to have a say in her own role as damsel in distress?
INTERVIEW: Maurice Broaddus on Sorcerers and Afrofuturism
Like so many children from marginalized groups, Maurice Broaddus wanted to see himself in the media that he saw on the screen or in the books he read He wanted to be able to see people who looked like him shaping the future, whether it be commanding starships or wielding magic. Like so many of…
INTERVIEW: Marco Finnegan Reimagines LA’s Zoot Suit Riots With a SciFi Twist in Lizard in a Zoot Suit
Set in the 1940s against the backdrop of The Sleepy Lagoon murder and the subsequent Zoot Suit Riots in LA, Latinx cartoonist Marco Finnegan explores history, racism, and classism in his new young adult graphic novel, Lizard in a Zoot Suit from Learner Publishing Group. Despite the zoot suit being a major element of Black and…
ComicCon@Home Day Three: Indigenous History, Galaxy Grrls, and the Deep Blue Sea 3
Day Three of ComicCon@Home brings yet more amazing panels. Here are a few that stood out for us. For Friday, Kate, Wendy, and Louis look at Indigenous history brought to life through comics, nonbinary representation in space, and the value of sharks in Deep Blue Sea 3.
So About That Eisner Award
A moment after closing Graeme McMillan’s article in The Hollywood Reporter detailing the shadow cast by irregularities in this year’s Eisner Awards voting process, I received a notification that a new email had arrived. “Hi Wendy and gang,” it began, and proceeded to inform me of plans for tonight’s virtual Eisner Awards ceremony, culminating in…
ComicCon@Home Day Two: Seeking Truth, X-Men, and the Afrofuturism Way
A virtual comic convention is convenient for many reasons, including the opportunity to plan other things around your convention day, instead of having it consume your day completely. Too bad I forgot about that timezone difference, which messed up all my careful organization! Things got a bit livelier for day two of ComicCon@Home. Here are…
ComicCon@Home Day One: Conduits and Conspiracies
When the dominoes began to fall with the cancellation of Emerald City Comic Con back in March, it began to feel like convention season was over before it had begun. And while many conventions did their best to cling to the hope that this pandemic would blow over in time to keep their scheduled plans,…
[Exclusive] Get Ready for the KUTE Crew!
Launching August 4th from the creators of The Evil Life come the cutest underwater marsupial badasses: the KUTE Crew. The “Koala Underwater Tactical Elite are a bunch of outrageous marsupials that scoot around the ocean in their sub, the Tangerine Marine, as they go up against their weird foes in the Squid Squad.”