Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for October! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news. In October’s Pubwatch, there are more details about Mr. Justice, some interviews, plenty of new variant covers, and much more!
WWAC Reads Books! Supernatural Gender Edition
Cozying down into fall, we here at WWAC have been indulging both in books with really interesting things to say about gender, and as usual, books across the speculative fiction spectrum. Everything from horror stories to sweet, queer retellings of Arthuriana, we’re enjoying it all!
TIFF 2024 Review: Queer Buries Its Narrative of Longing and Loneliness Under Surrealist Nightmares
Adapted from the autobiographical novel of the same name by Beat writer William S. Burroughs, Queer follows William Lee (Daniel Craig), a gay man living in Mexico, who longs for love and thinks he’s finally found it in a young man. But has he?
TIFF 2024 Review: Eden Rides on Strong Performances But Needs More Tension
Ron Howard’s Eden is set soon after the First World War, where a doctor and his partner have been living alone on an island in the Galapagos. When new neighbours arrive, the sanctity of their haven is disturbed and all hell breaks loose.
REVIEWS: ShortBox Comics Fair Favorites for 2024
Comics publisher ShortBox may have folded this year, but Zainab Akhtar’s annual ShortBox Comics Fair still has a sparkling present and future. Open for October, a fabulously curated collection of digital indie works are for sale online. Featuring a ton of creators, some established and some just starting out, it’s a grab bag of wonderful…
VIZ Pubwatch October 2024
Welcome back to another Pubwatch, VIZ fans! It’s October, and you know what that means— NEW! YORK! COMIC CON! Also Halloween but that’s less relevant here. We’re going to talk about the VIZ panel at this year’s NYCC and review some new series, including the Magic: the Gathering themed manga Destroy All Humans: They Can’t…
TIFF 2024 Review: The Assessment Asks What Makes a Good Parent
In The Assessment, a couple living in a post-apocalyptic future try to pass a series of tests to determine whether they can qualify to have a child. But as the tests become increasingly dangerous and abstract, the couple begins to question their relationship and what they want from their world.
TIFF 2024 Review: In Without Blood, the Characters Wage a Personal War After Victory Is Declared
Without Blood is a long conversation between a woman and a man. They could be strangers. Siblings. Friends. Lovers. But what connects them is a nightmare that has changed the course of both of their lives and of so many others. Neither accepts that they’ve been waging their own personal wars, long after the real…
TIFF 2024 Review: Went Up The Hill Can’t Handle Its Dark Subject Matter
Went Up the Hill is an ambitious attempt to metamorphose a ghost story into something deeper and darker. Unfortunately, the film tries to juggle far too many themes and ends up unable to flesh out any.
TIFF 2024 Review: Daniela Forever Warns Against Skipping the Grieving Process
In Daniela Forever, a couple in the honeymoon phase of their relationship is torn apart by circumstances beyond their control. The surviving partner finds that bereavement is too overwhelming; he’d rather skip it altogether.
TIFF 2024 Review: The Life of Chuck Searches For Joy in Small Moments
The Life of Chuck tells the three-part story of one man’s life and the memories he left with the people in his life. Based on a Stephen King novella, the Mike Flanagan film aims to make joy in a cynical world. Does it succeed?
REVIEW: Storm #1 Spotlights the Heart of the Goddess, the Hero, the Mutant
An explosion leaves devastation in its wake in Storm #1. The world’s most powerful mutant, Ororo Munroe, can never turn away from those in need. But this rescue effort may put her body and soul in more danger than she’s ever been in before.