Young Justice #1 Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Patrick Gleason (Artist), Alejandro Sanchez (Colours), DC Lettering (Letters) DC Comics 9 January 2019 Gemworld has, for years, been affected by the tide of events afflicting Earth. But the denizens of the blue marble are unaware of this, blissfully living their lives while Gemworld suffers. The rulers of…
Adventure Time’s Marcy & Simon #1 Is Wholesome Content
Adventure Time Presents: Marcy & Simon #1 BOOM! Studios / KaBOOM! Slimm Fabert (artist), Mike Fiorentino (letters), SJ Miller (colors), Olivia Olson (writer) January 16, 2019 When the Adventure Time team announced that they were going to release a six-part miniseries about Simon Petrikov and how he’s been handling being himself again after a thousand years…
Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup January ’19
It’s a new year, and a new year brings … a short break from the rush of new crowdfunded projects! It’s a short one this round, folks, but I, for one, appreciate that creators took the chance to spend time and/or deal with their families … or, at the very least, to take a deep…
IDW PUBWATCH: December 2018 and January 2019
Happy 2019 and welcome to the first IDW Pubwatch of the new year! I was one of the round one judges for the Graphic Novel category of the Cybils award, and now I get to catch up on everything IDW has been up to while I was reading for the Cybils. It was an incredible…
Presenting the Winners of the 2019 WWAC Awesome Awards
With thanks to our team for putting together our most excellent list of nominees for the best (and not so best) of comics in 2018, and to our Patreon patrons for their votes, we now present to you the winners of the 2019 WWAC Awesome Awards!
By the Letters: An Interview with Troy Peteri
Letterers are some of the many unsung heroes that help shape the comics we love. Word and thought balloons, sound effects (SFX), and narrative boxes appear throughout the pages of each book, but readers tend to take those storytelling devices for granted, without realizing just how much of our reading experience those seemingly simple letters…
WWACommendations: Life is Strange, Coyotes, Batman Elseworlds, Archie 1941, and More
Happy first WWACommendations of 2019! Every month, WWAC contributors share what comics we’ve read lately that we really enjoyed. This month I got to read a comic based on my favorite fandom (check out the preview below!), which was an exciting surprise. Another fandom I’m passionate about is X-Men characters, so I plan to catch…
Captain Britain Reading Diary 5: No More Eggs or Sunshine
Captain Britain went into limbo again, lost in the journey back from Otherworld… …Which we caught back up with in 1981.
Water Weed Blog Tour: Ben Aaronovitch on Diversity, Collaboration, and the Rivers of London Graphic Novels
Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series follows the life and career of Peter Grant — life-long Londoner, newly-minted Constable and, considerably to his astonishment, apprentice magician — as well as his colleagues, family, lovers and friends. With seven novels, one novella and six graphic novels — all released since 2011 — the series is a…
WWAC’s Favorite Small Press Comics of 2018
There are some amazing comics that came out this past year, and we unfortunately don’t have the capacity to showcase every incredible indie book. The to-read pile is high, stacked with promise and adventure. But, we took a crack at it anyway! Below is a selection of what small press releases we loved over at…
Journey Across the Seven Seas: Sillier and Spookier
What’s up for the latest massive roundup from Seven Seas? Mood whiplash! We go from buddy comedies and inept dragons to zombies and the scariest thing of all: fad diets!
Plus-Sized Elf Makes A Joke of Women’s Bodies
As a fat person, I’m not sure what I dislike more: no fat representation in media, or fat representation in media. Because whenever it happens, it’s almost always as a comic relief, a glutton, a character who is defined by always eating. Their fatness is only the “acceptable” kind, a little chub around the midsection,…