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Oni Watch: Oni Press Gets Weird in the Best Way
Introducing Oni Watch: a regular column keeping the peepers on what’s happening on and off-page at Oni Press. Enjoy! —Ed So what kind of story are you feeling today? Something where some ex-criminal women break their friends out of prison? Or how about a 1920s noir involving ...
Con Diaries, Opinion, Roundtables
San Diego Comic Con: An Overcrowded But Overall Fun Affair
Over last weekend, a handful of WWAC writers attended the 2017 San Diego Comic Con (SDCC). SDCC started in 1970 at the US Grant Hotel; back then, it had only 300 attendees, took place in the hotel basement, and was meant to showcase the comic book, fantasy, and sci-fi genres that often went ...
Keeping Jem Outrageous: A Listicle
Kelly Thompson, Sophie Campbell, and M. Victoria Robado’s refreshing, yet still totally outrageous, comic reboot of the 1980s Jem & the Holograms television series ended with issue #26 on June 14 of this year. The Jem comic has been a huge hit with the 80’s babies, such as myself, that ...
“It’s better to be lonely together” – Isolation in Courtney Crumrin
Courtney Crumrin Written, Drawn, and Lettered by Ted Naifeh Colored by Warren Wucinich Collected Hardcovers, Oni Press, 2012-2015 Courtney Crumrin is, in a lot of ways, a typical protagonist for YA literature. She’s an outcast who hates the “phonies” who populate her school, and while not quite ...
Diaries of a Pathfinder Sex Idiot: Flirtroductions
Welcome to the first installment of Diaries of a Pathfinder Sex Idiot! In case this is not obvious, this is my personal account of my adventures in Mass Effect: Andromeda romance storylines, quite frankly my favourite part of any Mass Effect game. My Pathfinder, Fiona, has been in cryo for 600 ...
Comics, Essays, Manga, Opinion
What Is Going On in Attack on Titan?
Say what you like, but Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan stirs a lot of emotion in people. Sometimes it’s love for the giant-killing action and cool aesthetic. Other times it’s frustration for the uneven pacing. And, for another group of people, it’s bewilderment. I currently fall into the third ...
Deconstructing Pretty Deadly: Sissy, the Vulture
I’m the type of person who likes to analyze the things I love. One of those things is Pretty Deadly written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, drawn by Emma Rios, colored by Jordie Bellaire, and lettered by Clayton Cowles. It is probably one of my favorite comics ever (and I have the tattoo to prove ...
Comics, Opinion, Profiles & Primers
What the Heck is Marvel Legacy? A Primer
On Friday, the “House of Ideas” revealed their much hyped and (in the optimistic eyes of Marvel PR) anticipated new relaunch, Marvel Legacy. In what was one of the most underwhelming and confusing rollouts in recent memory, Marvel released eight sets of GIFs which included the ...
Comics, Opinion, Profiles & Primers
That Bad Boy Image #1: Big Behaviour Bars
Welcome to That Bad Boy Image! A weekly column where we commemorate 25 years of Image by making a very statistically accurate graph to showcase just what those naughty boys and their driving-seat successors are up to during this most momentous quarter century celebration of one of the biggest ...












