As the world continues faces a long overdue reckoning with uprisings around the globe against anti-Black racism and white supremacy, the entertainment world is trying to return to some semblance of normal. Of course, the big question is what will that look like? And in the face of current conversations, protests, and civil unrest why…
Vault Pubwatch Light: June 2020
We’re slowly starting to see things back on the shelves at our local comic stores, but things are still a little light. While Vault waits for the vaults to open, the company isn’t sitting idle on the more pressing matters affecting our world right now:
Titan Comics Pubwatch: June 2020
June is bustin’ out all over, and so are comics, now that Diamond’s distribution channels are back up and running. And while it’s far from normal, it’s nice to see new books on the shelves. What’s been going on across the pond? Let’s find out! (And if you are venturing out to your comic shop to…
Previously On Comics: Priorities
I don’t know how to do this today. I don’t know how to be anything but scared and angry anymore. I don’t know how, during a pandemic, where Black people are being forced to risk their lives in order to explain that their livers MATTER, on the three year anniversary of Grenfell, a few days…
Last Week’s Episode: Black Lives Matter, and the Reckoning Is Here
This week, we saw the dam break in all parts of entertainment and media (using the widest possible definition of the phrase) with Black, Indigenous, and other people of color speaking out about racism, both micro and macro, they’ve experienced in the workplace. There are a few news stories to cover before getting into it,…
Last Week’s Episode: All Fake Cops Should Donate
As Black Lives Matter protests in honor of George Floyd and other victims of police brutality continue across the country, corporations and celebrities scrambled to find the appropriate tone to respond on their own social media accounts, to varying success. And while people started pulling receipts (I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting the Metropolitan Opera to…
Previously on Comics: Cyclops Was Right
Comics distribution has started again, but that seems like such trivial news right now because this has been a hard week. An exhausting week. It started with Amy Cooper trying to weaponize the police against a Black man, and led to George Floyd being murdered by a cop, which is exactly what could have happened…
Last Week’s Episode: Something Clever That Isn’t About the Pandemic
I think we officially need to retire using the subtitle “Pandemic Edition” on things. This is now the third of these articles I’ve written from shelter-in-place and I’m starting to accept this is just life now. The good news is that with summer on the horizon, we all seem to be reaching some sort of…
DC PUBWATCH May 2020
Welcome to the May 2020 DC PUBWATCH. The biggest news of the month is surely that comics have returned to retail shelves, and that a hint of normalcy may be creeping back in. Stay safe, and get your comics however you can. Other news is the announced ends of two runs. Harley Quinn is ending…
Titan Comics Pubwatch: May 2020
For most of us, life is still life on lockdown, with more questions and anxieties than certainties and answers as the hours and days pass. But thank goodness for comics that can provide us with moments of escape and distraction from a 24 hour news cycle that rivals even the most dystopian of dystopias. I…
Previously on Comics: Not Much Happened TBH
Hello again! Kate here on this Memorial Day in the USA…for everyone else it’s just “Monday” and so that’s why we’re just gonna keep going. But maybe we can blame Memorial Day for why this week was so slow, in terms of news. And I don’t just mean good news. I mean any news. So,…
Last Week’s Episode: We’ve Hit Peak 2020
Every week seems to bring more madness, death, and harrowing news. So why not distract yourself with a week filled with nigh unbelievable announcements, cool reveals, a Fortnite trailer launch, and of course… the dreaded Snyder Cut. Welcome to Last Week’s Episode!
