Here’s the question: how safe do you feel when social oppression teams up with wank material?
Staff Picks for July: Comics
Black Science Rick Remender (W) Matteo Scalera (A) Image Comics Black Science will return on July 30th after a three month break following the completion of the first story arc. Issue #6 left off with Grant McKay encountering a duplicate of himself from another aspect of the multiverse, rescuing his own children from said duplicate,…
Batman Eternal Check In: Issues #10-11
Originally, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to write about the year long event that is Batman Eternal. I have been burned by DC events in the past (*cough* Villains Month *cough*) But the promise of Stephanie Brown and a superstar creative team (Snyder! Fawkes! Layman! Seeley!) convinced me to check out the first issue….
Review: Turtles in Time #1
Turtles in Time Paul Allor (W) Erik Burnham (W) Ross Campbell (A) IDW Publishing Turtles in Time #1 is everything that turtle fans adore about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: action-packed fight scenes, sassy Turtle one-liners, and dinosaur punching. The first issue of the mini-series wastes no time throwing the Turtles and readers alike into an…
Embl-O-Matic: Homegrown Cartoons on News that Bruises
Introducing… Our newest feature, a semi-regular, multi-author series of cartoons and short comics by WWAC staff, Embl-O-Matic. We’ll bring you sharp editorial cartoons on the state of geek culture, feminism, and other stuff we find interesting (like pie).This first cartoon, by Claire and Megan P, is in response to various recent news items — take…
Retro Review: Marvels
I’ve always loved Alex Ross. If ever I’m rich there’s a few things I’ll do: buy cool flats in London, Paris, New York, and Toronto, donate large sums of money to worthwhile causes and churches, attempt to visit fifty-two countries in a year, and buy a tonne of Alex Ross artwork. The privilege of seeing a…
Review: Fast Friends (NSFW)
Fast Friends Writer: Dale Lazarov Artist: Michael Broderick Dale Lazarov bills his work as “smart, wholesome, gay comics smut,” and that it is. Fast Friends, like Sticky and Manly is a wordless, erotic comic that balances poignant slice of life narrative with marathon sex.
This Week’s NYT Bestseller List
Most people know that the New York Times has a weekly best sellers list for books, but they also have top 10 best sellers for graphic novels, hard cover and paperback, and manga as well.
The DC Daily Planet: Payment Plans, Perfidious Profligates, and Premieres
Everybody’s buzzing about DC this week, and for once, it’s for something done absolutely right. Let’s check in and see what the fuss is about, shall we?
DC Changes Creator Contracts: Better Deal or Better Business?
This week DC announced significant changes to their creator payments, and more visible a shift for fans, colorist credits will be added to comic book covers. The additional changes to DC’s creator contracts are less discernable as being positive without us being privy to actual sales numbers, percentages, and dollar amounts. Time will tell if this new…
My Week in Comics Events, Part 2: Party Time
Long before it hit the shops, everyone was talking about Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s new Image Comics series The Wicked + The Divine, about gods who incarnate into the bodies of teenagers and become pop stars for two years before dying. It’s mortality, youth, fame, glamour, and myth all wrapped up into one stylish…
Wonder Woman Newspaper Comics Collected
A few years after Wonder Woman appeared on the comic scene she was featured in her very own newspaper strip. It ran from May 1 1943 until December 1 1944 and was written by William Moulton Marston, with art by Harry G Peters. And now for the first time ever those strips are available in…