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Cover Girl: Marauders #12

August 28, 2020

Welcome to Cover Girls. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Rachel, Cori, Dani, Wendy, and Zoe share their thoughts on the cover of Marauders #12 by Russell Dauterman for Marvel Comics.

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Marauders #11 Buries Kate Pryde’s Jewish Legacy

August 21, 2020

Kitty Pryde has been a favorite character for Jewish superhero fans since her inception, but Marauders #11 insults everything about her identity. Created by John Byrne and Chris Claremont in 1980, Kitty is notably one of the few Marvel characters who has been depicted as Jewish since her ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Green Lantern in 2020: Is There a Future Beyond the Thin Green Line?

August 14, 2020

Green Lantern has had a strange time in the first 20 years of the century. The ongoing comic series rose from a perennial B-list entry to DC’s pantheon of heroes to become the biggest franchise in their stable, thanks to a wildly popular and commercially successful decade-long run from ...

Opinion, Television and Film

Celebrating Vivica A. Fox and David DeCoteau’s B-Movie Empire

July 30, 2020

In honor of Vivica A. Fox‘s birthday, I wanted to take a deep dive into her Lifetime movie catalogue with director David DeCoteau — because why not?

Opinion

ComicCon@Home: Disney’s New Mutants Panel Sent Us to Limbo

July 23, 2020

In the face of the global pandemic, Comic-Con International has put together what seems to be a near-overwhelming selection of panels and programming that anyone with an Internet connection can enjoy. Alas, the reality of the virtual con has been a strange, sometimes surreal selection of what ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Leaning on the Closet Door: X-Men+Fantastic Four and Trans Allegory

July 20, 2020

Content Warnings: Suicide, Depression, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Gaslighting, Anti-Trans Legislation, Murder

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Comics Culture: Visiting a Comic Book Store in Russia

May 1, 2020

Back in the Before Times when people could still go outside and interact with each other in close proximity, I went to Russia to visit my relatives, whom I haven’t seen in several years. From December 2018 to early January 2019, I stayed at my aunt and cousin’s apartment in the southwest end of ...

Comics, Lists, Manga, Opinion

3 Reasons to Re-Read Bleach

April 23, 2020

Tite Kubo’s sweeping manga finished up in 2016, but the final arc was never adapted into the anime. Fans were left wanting when the anime ended in 2012 and have always hoped to see the final arc be adapted, myself included! It was recently announced that Studio Pierrot is going to be adapting ...

Comics, Opinion

What Fence! Didn’t Learn from Sports Manga

April 7, 2020

So, Fence!. This limited series about high school fencing, written by CS Pacat, drawn by Johanna the Mad, and published by Boom! Studios is getting a prose novel tie-in by Sarah Rees Brennan in September 2020, bringing new life to a series that ended in November 2018. But why aren’t more ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Patreon Exclusive: Subterranean Mutant Semiotics: Morlocks, X-Factor, and the Privilege of Passing

March 20, 2020

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. Content Warning: This essay includes discussions of transphobia, anti-trans violence, trans-medicalism and passing.

Opinion

Cover Girl: Marauders #12

Marauders #11 Buries Kate Pryde’s Jewish Legacy

Green Lantern in 2020: Is There a Future Beyond the Thin Green Line?

Celebrating Vivica A. Fox and David DeCoteau’s B-Movie Empire

ComicCon@Home: Disney’s New Mutants Panel Sent Us to Limbo

Leaning on the Closet Door: X-Men+Fantastic Four and Trans Allegory

Comics Culture: Visiting a Comic Book Store in Russia

3 Reasons to Re-Read Bleach

What Fence! Didn’t Learn from Sports Manga

Patreon Exclusive: Subterranean Mutant Semiotics: Morlocks, X-Factor, and the Privilege of Passing

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