This fall, The World’s Grumpiest Cat” joins the ranks of famous comic book cats like Red Lantern Dex-Starr or Saga‘s Lying Cat. In a newly announced deal with Dynamite, Grumpy Cat and her brother, Pokey, will enter the realm of digital comics and graphic novels. First released as a three-issue miniseries in the fall, it…
Female Transformers Get Reinforcements from Caminus and Victorion Combines
It’s finally happened. The results are in! Earlier this year, Hasbro asked its fans to download an app for their mobile devices that enabled fans to vote for input in creating a new combiner team. The last time fans got to do something similar, the heroine Windblade was the result—she earned considerable face-time under Mairghread…
Don’t Call Me Sidekick! Big Hats and Camaraderie That Works in Swords of Sorrow: Masquerade and Kato Review
Swords of Sorrow: Masquerade and Kato One-Shot Willow Wilson and Erica Schultz (scripters), Noah Salonga (illustrator), Dinei Ribiero (colorer), Erica Schultz (letterer), Hannah Elder (editor) Dynamite May 27, 2015 (Note: This review contains some spoilers. WWAC reviewed Swords of Sorrow: Masquerade and Kato with an advanced review copy from Dynamite.) Confusion abounds in Swords of Sorrow: Masquerade…
Short & Sweet: TCAF Edition!
OTP Maki Naro Self Published 2015 Maki Naro calls OTP the first Triassic romance comic. In 1975, paleontologists found a Triassic era fossilized cast. In 2012, we finally found out was inside the cast, thanks to the European Synchronotron Radiation Facility, which peered inside the cast and discovered two animals, locked in a fatal embrace:…
Bug Girl: An Interview with The Last Cowboy’s Zoe Coughlin
Space. Aliens. Diverse women. Beautiful art. In The Last Cowboy, I’ve found one of my new favorite webcomics, AND I got to chat about it with the creator, Zoe Coughlin.
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Tintin Never Gets Motion Sickness Now Proven By SCIENCE
Physicians Publish Paper on Tintin, Because Apparently This Is Science? In an actual medical study, a group of physicians have produced their paper chronicling the intrepid Belgian adventuring boy’s various injuries and ailments 1930 – 1974, which included oodles of concussions and the occasional chloroform poisoning. I THINK the purpose of this study was to…
Mighty Marvel Monday!
It’s Memorial Day in the States, and I was sadly not invited to Mel’s BBQ, not that I was expecting to, seeing as how Mel and I have never met, we have no mutual friends, and I only found out Mel’s BBQ was a thing on Saturday thanks to Twitter. But now that I know…
Editing: What Even IS That? Two Editors Discuss The Matter
EDITING. What kind of crap is that?? Some bossy grifter trying to change your words, take your voice, and redirect your thoughts? NO THANK YOU! Actually … no. That’s not so much the way of things. Editing is fun: the opportunity to support a creative writer in their production of their very best work. One…
Review: Swords of Sorrow: Vampirella & Jennifer Blood
Swords of Sorrow: Vampirella & Jennifer Blood #1 Nancy Collins (scripter), Dave Acosta (penciller) Valentina Pinto (colorist) Erica Schultz (letterer) Cover by Billy Tan Dynamite May 20, 2015
Stan Lee’s Graphic Memoir Gets October 6th Release Date
Stan Lee’s graphic memoir, Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir, which will be published by Simon & Schuster, has just been given a U.S. release date of October 6th. Lee, who will turn 93 this December, released the following statement in conjunction with the release date: “As Marvel just celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary, I thought…
The DC Daily Planet: A DC for Everyone (Except Rihanna)
Happy Friday, crusaders! Did you miss me last week? There, there, I’m back now. Save those tears, because you’ll need them when you watch this video: Remember Batkid (aka mild-mannered Miles Scott), the five-year-old boy who fought leukemia and crime to save San Francisco Gotham City from evil? Of course you do. We all do, because…
Control Your Gun In Comics: Don’t Put the Muzzle There!
If you’d like a frank discussion over gun legislation, Second Amendment rights, or violence in comic books, this is not the article for you. There is a place for each of these, but what I’d like to bring to the table is a discussion about the respect given to the representation of firearms in comic books….