Welcome to Top Cow Pubwatch volume 2. I’ve been busy reading up on all of Top Cow’s offerings since my last Pubwatch and I can’t express enough how much I am loving the variety of stories they have to offer, from super heroes to romance and so much more. At WWAC, we’ve been busy with…
Infinite Dark: Ryan Cady Wants to Keep You Up at Night
Infinite Dark’s opening pages set up a very gloomy, lonely atmosphere, with the weight of a heat dead world on Security Director Deva Karrell’s shoulders. The sense of loss and isolation is very heavy, to the point where a grizzly murder almost feels like a breath of fresh air against such pressing darkness. But, writer…
WWACommendations: X-23, The Wilds, The Wendy Project, Mermaid’s Promise, and More
What comics are you reading for fun lately? While many of us read various comics for research, curiosity, or to keep up with a series, there are certain comics we’re reading just for fun. In this roundtable, WWAC contributors gush about the comics they’ve been reading this past month that were a pure delight.
My Favourite Bug-based Superheroes that Aren’t Ant-Man and The Wasp
I may never forgive the MCU for that end credit scene following the fun and entertaining romp that was the Ant-Man and The Wasp movie, but I did come to appreciate characters in that film that I had previously known or cared very little about. Plus, the movie prompted me to do a little research. Science has…
Behind the Scenes with Oni and Limerence Press’ Ari Yarwood
In our Editorial Eye series, we go behind the scenes with comic and book editors to learn about their role in the creative process and discover how their passion for their industry helps shape their work. Several comic companies have introduced imprints that cover more adult stories, which means books that invariably involve sex. In…
V.E. Schwab Talks Crossing Into Comics With Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince
V.E. Schwab thought she’d left her Shades of Magic series behind with the conclusion of the trilogy in A Conjuring of Light. But she realized that there were still more stories to tell, even as she worked on the sequel to her first book Vicious. Her new trilogy, Threads of Power, will step into the future…
The Re-re-invention of Psylocke
In 1989, Chris Claremont and Jim Lee did a thing to Betsy Braddock, aka Psylocke. The white, British, purple-haired model, turned agent, turned X-Man, sister of Captain Britain, stepped through the Siege Perilous and was discovered by the Hand, who reshaped her into a Japanese woman. In 1993 on the pages of X-Men, Fabian Nicieza…
Sequential Sartorial: Give Me More Fashionable Superheroes
Once upon a time, I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was constantly sketching ideas, collecting fabric samples, and chopping up my sister’s Vogue and Bazaar. I was infatuated with Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista and the original supermodels. I dreamed of visiting the runways of Paris. As with many of my childhood obsessions,…
AfterShock’s Christina Harrington on Doggos, Ancient Fish, and the Beating of her Comics-Loving Heart
Editorial Eye is a new WWAC series where we go behind the scenes with comic and book editors to learn about their role in the creative process and discover how their passion for their industry helps shape their work. AfterShock Comics is very proud of the books they have produced in only three years. They…
X-Men Book Club: What Ever Happened to Doug Ramsey, aka Cypher?
“So, let’s talk about Cypher,” said Nola. “Who the hell is that? Oh wait. Never mind! I know … I think?” Wendy replied, scratching her head. “I only really know of him because of the Phalanx Covenant business where he worked with/became Douglock or … Something … ?” And that, folks, is how our very…
Felicia D. Henderson on The Punisher, Mental Health, and Bringing More Graphic Novels to the Screen
Felicia D. Henderson has not been writing comics for some time. Since her runs on several DC Comics titles between 2010 and 2011, Henderson has returned to the screen where she has firmly established herself as a creative powerhouse in the industry. She recently signed a multiyear deal with 20th Century Fox that will have…
PUBWATCH: How Now Top Cow! August
I’ve been toying with the idea of a Top Cow Pubwatch for some time. I was a fan of the company when it first started years (decades!) ago, tagging along with their shiny cybernetic revolution, and have loosely followed that evolution over time to see them produce some really interesting and provocative books. And so,…