The Hellfire Gala is finally here! The stage is set for mutants to take their place as the foremost influences and visionaries on Earth as they show just how far they’ve come in front of the world’s rich and powerful. And also Jimmy Kimmell is here for some reason. Marauders #21 is the official start…
REVIEW: New Mutants #18: On a Precipice
There’s something looming ahead in the distance for the denizens of Krakoa, and it’s not just the Hellfire Gala — the Shadow King’s intentions hang over everything and remain unrevealed. This issue doesn’t bring us any closer to understanding his aims; instead, this issue continues to use the mutants as a metaphor of dysphoria, explicitly…
Previously on Comics: Pride Edition
Hey hey hey, it’s Kate here again to give you the comics news round-up for the first week of June aka Pride Month. And while I, like other queer people, are queer the other 11 months of the year as well, Pride Month has become known for one thing other than the annual queer/kink discourse,…
REVIEW: The Secret to Superhuman Strength Connects Mind, Body, and Community
In the introduction to The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel issues herself a swift, succinct diagnosis. Amid nonstop movement from panel to panel — she kicks, guzzles water, and shifts from a downward dog on an orange yoga mat to doing rapid bicep curls — she declares, “I’m not good at sports. I’m not…
REVIEW: Doctor Who: Alternating Current is a Memorable Jaunt Through Time
The Tenth and Thirteenth Doctors team up in a brand new timey-wimey adventure in Doctor Who: Alternating Current. Having crossed paths with each other, the two Doctors have accidentally broken time. Now, it’s up to them and their companions to return Earth to its former glory.
REVIEW: Silk #3 Has Silk Tangled in a Villainous Web
Silk’s current antagonist, Saya Ishii, might not have Spider-powers like Cindy Moon, but she has certainly been weaving an impressive crime web over the past three issues of Maurene Goo and Takeshi Miyazakwa’s ongoing Silk series. Silk #3 finds Saya Ishii and the cat demon Kasha continuing their rampage on Brooklyn’s gangsters.
House of Socks/Powers of Socks: An Interview with Al Ewing on S.W.O.R.D #1-5
As we draw closer and closer to the Hellfire Gala, we took the time to sit down with Al Ewing to talk about all thing S.W.O.R.D. We take a look at the many ways the book and its team took shape, how to offend Khora of the Burning Heart, and how to launch a title…
REVIEW: Way of X #2: Questioning the Inevitable
David Haller, aka Legion, takes full control in Way of X #2. Can Nightcrawler figure out how to keep up?
Previously: Neil Gaiman’s Fucks
As May draws to a close, we look back at how the comics industry did this past week or so.
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] The Many Ages of DC Comics: A Sequel
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Three years ago, I got annoyed on Twitter and wound up writing a long article about the various different “Ages” of American comics. Well, I recently had a conversation with our…
DC PUBWATCH – May 2021
Mayday mayday! Waking Hours did not earn the top slot this month. Instead, that honor went to The Other History of the DC Universe #4, a book that has also been remarkably good for its run, but in a much different way than Waking Hours has.
REVIEW: Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence
Social anthropologist and novelist Jenny White (Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, The Winter Thief) and artist Ergün Gündüz’s Turkish Kaleidoscope is dizzying. The graphic novel follows four characters, who are fictionalized composites of oral history interviewees, over four years in Turkey as political power shifted between different leftist and rightist groups. The comic, which…
