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Love, Death + Dragons: Wendy’s Totally Plausible Game of Thrones Predictions

April 28, 2019

There are lots of Game of Thrones predictions and theories around and, with the pending doom of the Night King’s onslaught, I would be remiss if I didn’t get my thoughts out to the world. Last week’s episode, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” featured a lot of ...

Essays, Opinion, Television and Film

Sansa Dislikes Daenerys on Game of Thrones & That’s Fine

April 21, 2019

The final season of Game of Thrones is all about conflict, and the premiere episode gave fans a long awaited meeting between Sansa Stark and Daenerys Targaryen. The two share similar backstories, both having survived the abuse, trauma, and machinations of men in order to become respected ...

Opinion

Previously On Comics: Pointing Fingers at Comics Critics

March 11, 2019

Several things happened in comics last week, but I’m going to forego listing off the news as we normally do in this column, and instead take the opportunity to use our platform here at WWAC to address a very serious issue that continues to plague the comic book industry. In case you ...

Comics, Lists, Opinion

Hire This Hero: Why Loki Could Take Over for John Constantine

February 8, 2019

Life is weird, right? Sometimes you’re just going about your business, trying to imbibe enough caffeine to drag through the last endless hour of a Friday afternoon at the widget company when out of nowhere, a demon wielding dark magic comes crashing through the cubicle occupied by Donna in ...

Essays, Opinion

She-Hulk: The Hero We Need in 2019

December 28, 2018

With the Women’s Marches, the #MeToo movement, and the important conversations we’ve been seeing recently about sexual assault and consent.Women have certainly made their voices heard. And in the current political climate, not only is anger—and even rage—from women understandable, it can serve ...

Comics, Lists, Opinion, Webcomics, Zines

Presenting the Nominees for the 2019 WWAC Awesome Awards

December 17, 2018

While everyone is putting together their best of list for 2018, we want to do something a little different with the return of our Awesome Awards. There are many, many comics we loved this year, and you’ll get to read about those, but the comic industry isn’t just about the comics we ...

Comics, Opinion, Political Comics, Roundtables

Analyzing The Nib’s “Vote or Else!”

November 5, 2018

Last week, The Nib ran a comic entitled Vote or Else!, which is the work of Filipino-American cartoonist and illustrator, Niccolo Pizarro. The comic, presented initially without context, paints voter registration efforts and their proponents as insensitive to the plights of marginalized peoples ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

The Problem With Generation X Was Editorial

October 22, 2018

On the 12th October, a Friday, writer Chuck Wendig announced via several threaded tweets that he had been fired from the Darth Vader miniseries he had been working on thanks to editorial displeasure with his personal linguistic conduct. The editor in question was Mark Paniccia.

Comics, Essays, Opinion

So, Why Don’t We Have a Robin Movie?: Teen Sidekicks and the Relegation to Relation

October 15, 2018

Underneath the butt jokes and ‘80s flashbacks (and more butt jokes), Teen Titans Go! To the Movies poses a valid and complex question: Why don’t we have a Robin movie? Robin (the Dick Grayson iteration) was introduced before Wonder Woman, Captain America, and a host of other superheroes who ...

After Dark, Comics, Opinion, Roundtables

The Bat-Missile: A Round Robin Discourse [NSFW — sort of]

September 21, 2018

One of the perks of comics journalism is that we often get to see things early, so that we know enough to write about them accurately. That’s not really a surprise in itself, but it does lead to the occasional perk–such as when we discovered that DC Comics, through, Batman: Damned #1, the ...

Opinion

Love, Death + Dragons: Wendy’s Totally Plausible Game of Thrones Predictions

Sansa Dislikes Daenerys on Game of Thrones & That’s Fine

Previously On Comics: Pointing Fingers at Comics Critics

Hire This Hero: Why Loki Could Take Over for John Constantine

She-Hulk: The Hero We Need in 2019

Presenting the Nominees for the 2019 WWAC Awesome Awards

Analyzing The Nib’s “Vote or Else!”

The Problem With Generation X Was Editorial

So, Why Don’t We Have a Robin Movie?: Teen Sidekicks and the Relegation to Relation

The Bat-Missile: A Round Robin Discourse [NSFW — sort of]

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