Whenever I’m asked about my favorite books, movies, anime, or video games, I hesitate to answer. For me, comparing my love of Haruki Murakami to J. R. R. Tolkien, for example, is like comparing apples to oranges or choosing between chocolate and vanilla. Murakami and Tolkien, apples and oranges, and chocolate and vanilla are all…
Beauty in the Breakdown: The Wicked + The Divine
The Wicked + The Divine is a pretty cool comic, guys. You know this, I know this—hell, I’m pretty sure Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, and Matt Wilson know this. Lots of people have lots of different readings of it and Gillen has been kind enough to provide Writer’s Notes about his work. Still, I thought…
CW’s The Flash & Due Process: Do Supervillains Have The Right To An Attorney?
CW’s The Flash is one of the most popular debuts of the 2014-2015 television season, which owes a lot to the fact that it’s a DC superhero property that’s unabashedly fun and self-aware. Of course, it would be. You have villains like Captain Cold, Rainbow Raider, and Pied Piper up against a superhero dressed in…
Swallowing Your Privilege: Writing and Making a Living
Privilege is a hard pill to swallow, especially growing up in the mythos of Puritanical-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-idle-hands-are-the-devil’s-plaything-etc. America. But, like the giant antibiotics I’m taking right now for an upper respiratory infection, you have to swallow those enormous pills, all of them. Okay, the metaphor may be clumsy, but I keep getting those damn horse pills lodged…
Delving Deeper into Gaming Lore
It all started with Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir, a brilliant military strategist, the hero of the Battle of Riverdane, trusted advisor to King Cailan, father of the queen, and loyal friend and guardian to Cailan’s father Maric. When King Maric’s ship was lost at sea, Loghain spent two years searching for him, nearly bankrupting the Ferelden coffers….
What Does “Diva” Mean To You? Wrestler, There’s a Girl in My Chokeslam [GIFs]
Hey readers! This is Claire, your Features and Opinions Ed, introducing Karina Cooper’s piece on women in the WWE. We don’t talk Pro Wrestling much at WWAC, but when we do, we do it with spirit. Do you have a wrestlepinion to share? Get in touch!
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Firm Feelings on the Batfamily: Jason Todd is the Key to Everything
Over the last few years, I’ve been thinking a lot about A Death in the Family, Jason Todd, and their role in Batcanon. It’s generally agreed that Jason was a so-so Robin and that he’s much improved as Red Hood. However, I’m going to take that general agreement a step further and state that not…
What’s So Great About STAR WARS #1?
(This essay contains no major plot spoilers for Star Wars #1, but does mention a few characters who appear in the issue and where it falls in the Star Wars timeline.) The first issue of Marvel’s new Star Wars series arrived with much fanfare last week. Before its release, Marvel announced that the issue had…
Let’s Do the Joseon Warp Again: A KDrama Time-Travel Introspective
It was a chance encounter…a strange meeting that began by chance at a gap in time. – Queen In Hyun’s Man There is an undeniable fascination with the Joseon era in dramas, and as it was the last dynasty in Korea, it’s not surprising. Twenty-seven kings reigned during this period, with lots of court intrigue…
Firm Feelings on the BatFamily: Damian Wayne Should Not Exist
I’ll start with this: I’m coming into this article knowing that there’s no point in me writing it. I know that. I was talking to WWAC’s Claire on Twitter about exactly this sort of thing—about the point of writing out opinions when there’s nothing to be done about them, about whether they’re productive, but supposedly…
Old Guard Comics Dudes: Stop Hiding Behind Your Cosplay Hate
Comics artist Pat Broderick once drew Batman: Year Three, Doom 2099, and Micronauts. He quit drawing those things in the 90’s and left the industry, during a time when many were doing so, because comics suuuuuuuucked to work in due to the industry bottoming out after what is called the “speculator boom.” Now he’s back…
A Positronic Woman’s Plea: Include Trans Women In Fiction
Earlier this year, Andrew Wheeler of ComicsAlliance listed resolutions that he wanted the comics industry to achieve. Among these resolutions was trans representation in the Big Two for superheroes. This has not yet come to pass in a prominent way. Al Ewing has Loki freely changing their appearance between male and female in Marvel Comics’ Loki:…
