The calendar still says summer for a few more weeks. But there’s a chill in the air, Pumpkin Spice everything is back on shelves, and kids are back in school. Onward to autumn! Our latest Titan PUBWATCH installment continues our look at Doctor Who: Origins with a double dose of reviews and more of the adventures of…
REVIEW: The Lover of Everyone in the World is a Brilliant Meditation on Empathy
The Lover of Everyone in the World feels like a thought experiment – what would it be like to feel real, romantic love for every person on earth? What would it mean to be in that many relationships, and to feel that much real love for such a wide variety of people? How would it…
TIFF 2022 Review: Subtraction Will Have You Doing Several Double Takes
In the psychological thriller Subtraction, Farzaneh (Taraneh Alidoosti) and Jalal (Navid Mohammadzadeh) are living a painfully ordinary life when they encounter the extraordinary—their doppelgängers.
VIZ Pubwatch: September 2022
It’s time for many students to go back to school, and for me to write another VIZ Media Pubwatch! This month we’re following up on some series and creators covered in Pubwatches past, including Spy x Family and Ghost Reaper Girl. But first, the news!
REVIEW: Nona the Ninth Nestles You Nicely in a Nightmare
In Nona the Ninth, the third book in The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, readers get a ton of backstory about how this necromantic space empire came to be. We also get to spend a lot more time with some of the characters who had been secondary in earlier books. Like Gideon and Harrow,…
REVIEW: Himawari House Finds a Home in Cross-Cultural Friendship
Himawari House by Harmony Becker (They Called Us Enemy) is slice-of-life diaspora fiction that revolves around the sense of home, belonging, and otherness experienced by three young women living in Japan. Having decided to take a gap year between high school and college, 18-year-old Nao moves into the Himawari share house in Tokyo, where she…
REVIEW: Disney Princesses: Beyond the Tiara Is Just a Little Too Commercial
Disney Princess: Beyond the Tiara tells you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about how Disney Princesses became such a cultural force in American life. The book promises to explore the whys and hows of Walt Disney’s decision to make Snow White, to how Anna and Elsa evolved out of The Snow Queen. It’s a…
REVIEW: “Box of Light” Is Creepy but Charming
As noted in last month’s Seven Seas Pubwatch, Box of Light stood out to me as something spooky for the supernatural lovers. This manga follows the nights of a sleepy convenience store at the crossroads between life and death. With story and art by Seiko Erisawa, translation by Daniel Komen, and lettering by Brendon Hull,…
REVIEW: I Am Totally Weak For Wayne Family Adventures
I am a simple woman who enjoys found family dynamics. Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, DC’s popular digital comic series which has found a home on Webtoon, has this in spades. Taking all of Bruce’s children and plopping them into a world where every single member of the family is currently alive and actively battling the…
2022 Hugo Awards: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
The sequel to Arkady Martine’s earlier Hugo-winner A Memory Called Empire, this novel returns to the realm of the interplanetary Teixcalaan Empire. A Desolation Called Peace takes place early in the reign of Her Brilliance Nineteen Adze, an emperor, faced with an encroaching threat: humanity is making first contact with aliens – and those aliens…
2022 Hugo Awards: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
In Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, Katrina Nguyen is a young transgender woman who fled her abusive parents and hopes to pursue her passion as a violinist. She meets a woman named Shizuka Satomi, who previously coached six would-be musicians to stardom – only for each one to due young, thereby earning Shizuka…
[Patreon Exclusive] 2022 Hugo Award Nominees for Best Graphic Story, Part Two
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