Poetry is Wendy Chin-Tanner’s first love. In her own poetic work, she calls on the influences of poets such as Audre Lorde, Ai, Sylvia Plath, Vera Pavlova, and Lorine Niedecker. For A Wave New World’s Chin-Tanner, poets are a kind of literary world superhero, because, she says, “they’re always trying to do the impossible —…
REVIEW: Demon Days: X-Men #1 Gives Us Samurai X-Men and Monstrous Marvels
Demon Days: X-Men #1 is a tale for the ages. In ancient Japan, the Oni are fighting back against humans for expanding into their territories and taking away the Oni’s food sources. Can humans and Oni, who once coexisted peacefully, find balance again?
Spacewarp, Shift and The 77: Reviving British Anthology Comics
The phrase “British comics” has, over recent decades, seen a quite drastic shift in meaning. For a long time, British comics were affordable entertainment that youngsters picked up at the newsagent with their pocket money, and which covered a variety of genres from knockabout comedy to swooning romance, sporting exploits to high-flying sci-fi. Today, however,…
Bug Boys: Outside and Beyond Brings more Sweet Stories about Growing Up
Sometimes, especially when the world is terrible, you just need something sweet. Bug Boys has always been a comic that brings such sweetness. Protagonists Rhino-B and Stag-B often spend their stories worrying about what it means to grow up and become an adult, but they meet adult mentors who teach them gentle lessons, and guide…
REVIEW: You Can’t Live Forever in The Eighth Immortal #1
Seven immortals live among us, enduring their own humanity as best they can through the ages. For everyone else, time may heal all wounds, but when one has nothing but time to relive history and trauma, there is no such healing. And there is never allowed to be an eighth immortal, or else…
REVIEW: Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of Infertility
This heart-wrenching comics-narrative illustrating one woman’s epic journey towards motherhood is, at turns, also funny and cute. Drawings have a way of taking the sweat out of tragedy, turning it into something more palatable, though still powerful. I drank in Catalogue Baby in a single gulp.
INTERVIEW: Greg Hunter on Seekers of Aweto and Everything Lerner Books Has in Store for 2021
In 2018, Lerner Books published the first English-language translation of artist and writer, Nie Jun’s, called My Beijing, a collection of slice-of-life stories with a sprinkling of magical realism, translated from its original Chinese. This week, Lerner brings us a whole new adventure from Jun that introduces English-language readers to the fantastical world of the…
The Creative Team for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is… ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Oh hey! So if you read DC’s newest big universe status quo setting book, you may have caught a nice surprise (or you might have seen a different comic site break an embargo to announce it last week). Supergirl’s getting her series back! Wonderful news! Very excited for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow to launch in…
ADVANCE REVIEW: America Chavez: Made in the USA #1
America Chavez is a lot of things: queer, Latina, a great puncher, a good friend, a caring partner. She’s been hailed as good representation and criticized for being bad reputation, been lauded as progressive and torn down as stereotypical. Basically, despite being a relatively young character — she was created by Joe Casey and Nick…
REVIEW: X-Men #18 – Enter Lockdown
“From this point forward, you cannot depend on time to function in any manner resembling normal. It waxes and wanes, like temporal tides.”
REVIEW: Wolverine #10 Makes The Hard Sell
Wolverine, as a book, is very easy to dismiss, and for good reason! This volume, however, is quietly chugging along, doing some of the same heavy lifting as X-Force in terms of how it handles questions of masculinity.
REVIEW: Marvel Voices: Legacy #1 Is a Heartwarming Tribute to Many of Marvel’s Black Characters
Marvel Voices: Legacy #1 is an anthology of new stories, largely featuring Marvel’s greatest Black heroes and anti-heroes, written, drawn, and coloured by a host of Black creatives.