Frontier #14: Rebecca Sugar Rebecca Sugar Youth In Decline December 2016 The cover of Frontier #14 is not misleading. This is, in part, a comic about progress, corrections, revisiting, and reworking past ideas. The layers of pencil, corrective tape, and marker are a motif, the vehicle through which Sugar makes her point. After the front…
Stealing Snow: Are You a Good Trope or a Bad Trope?
Stealing Snow Danielle Paige Bloomsbury Publishing September 2016 Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This review may also contain spoilers.
Witchers, Soldiers, a Barrel-Smashing Troll: A First Look at Gwent
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game Publisher: CD Projekt Platform: PC, XBox One Release Date: Currently in Closed Beta Note: This review is of the beta version of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game. I signed up for the closed beta of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, sometime in July and didn’t give it much thought after…
Review: Hawkeye #1 Hits the Bullseye
Hawkeye #1 Kelly Thompson (s), Leonardo Romero (p), Jordie Bellaire (c), VC’s Joe Sabino (l) Marvel Comics December 14, 2016
Top Indies, Small Press, and Webcomics of 2016
I asked our small press comics fans to tell me not what the best comics of 2016 were, but which ones were their favourites. Here’s what they said: Mattress Stiff With Blood Tom McHenry Self-published There’s something that’s incredibly natural about the cartooning Tom McHenry does in this work—everything flows so seamlessly from one topic to…
Our Favorite Games of 2016
This year has seen the release of some incredible games. Incredible in every sense–we’ve seen games we never thought would come out (The Last Guardian, Final Fantasy XV), games that we never expected to love so much (Overwatch), and games that probably could have benefited from a little more time in the oven (No Man’s…
WWAC’s Favorite Big Press Comics of 2016
Southern Cross Becky Cloonan (Writer and Cover Artist), Andy Belanger and Lee Loughridge (Artists) Image Comics Southern Cross looked like something I would not like. For all of my love of things beginning with Star (Wars, Trek, etc.), I’m actually pretty afraid of space. And space stories where scary stuff happens? Certainly too frightening. Wrong! This is…
Catching Up With The Third Doctor #3
The Third Doctor #3 Paul Cornell (Writer), Christopher Jones (Artist), Hi-Fi (Colors) Titan Comics November 30th, 2016 Have you been reading The Third Doctor? Now is the perfect time to dive in and get caught up. If the first three issues don’t get you hooked, the big reveal at the end of this issue will surely keep…
Juliet Looks Through a Fishtank at Romeo: Romance Manga Aquarium
There’s a sweet and lovely feminism to the shoujo romance stories found in Tomoko Taniguchi’s Aquarium. Femininity is their strength. Tomoko Taniguchi was active in the Japanese market by the early nineties, but those same stories experienced a second, translated wind a decade later, in the bubble days of the American manga market. There’s very…
Rogue One Aims High (Spoiler-Free Review)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Directed by Gareth Edwards Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendelsohn Disney December 16, 2016 It’s hard for me to be critical about the new generation of Star Wars films because they fill a hole in my fangirl heart. It’s Star Wars, but…
Review: MariNaomi’s I Thought You Hated Me
I Thought You Hated Me MariNaomi Retrofit/Big Planet Comics September 21, 2016 MariNaomi has had quite a year, hitting two different pillars of comics storytelling with Turning Japanese and the newer I Thought You Hated Me. I already talked about in my “Inspiring Women Comics Creators Today” contribution about how much I loved Turning Japanese….
The Best There is at What He Does: Examining Chris Claremont’s X-Men
The Best There is at What He Does: Examining Chris Claremont’s X-Men By Jason Powell, Cover by Steven Legge Sequart Organization (October 2016) A copy of this book was provided to WWAC in exchange for an honest review. It’s no secret that I’m a big X-Men fan. I’m not talking about whatever rebooted/rehashed/resurrected business Marvel…
