The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle (Sincerely, Harriet; Patience and Esther; and a former WWAC contributor!) is a bittersweet story about an aspiring artist who channels her dreams and anxieties into a series of comic zines. With its honest writing and soft pastel art, this graphic novel explores the realities of being a queer…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: July 2022
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of July! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, even more Archie Horror titles have been announced for the fall, The CW announces a Jake Chang spin-off series, Sabrina gets a…
VIZ Pubwatch July 2022
Welcome back to another VIZ Media pubwatch, dear readers! It’s the height of the summer anime season, the height of convention season, and the height of “new volumes of ongoing series I like being released by VIZ” season. And I can’t wait to talk about those new volumes! But first, the VIZ anime news.
2022 Hugo Awards: Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather/Unknown Number
Our coverage of the 2022 Hugo Awards continues with a look at the final two contenders for Best Short Story: “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker and “Unknown Number” by Blue Neustifter.
REVIEW: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Is a Satisfying Chapter in the Monk and Robot Series
Like A Psalm for the Wild-Built before it, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a meandering and gentle novella, exploring what it means to have purpose and be satisfied with yourself and your role in your community. It’s beautifully written and philosophically engaging. A Prayer for the Crown Shy picks up where A Psalm for…
2022 Hugo Award Reviews: Tangles/The Sin of America
Welcome to the second part of WWAC’s 2022 Hugo Award review series. This instalment shall be covering two more Best Short Story finalists: Seanan McGuire’s “Tangles” and Catherynne M. Valente’s “The Sin of America”…
REVIEW: The Legend of Auntie Po: We Make Our Own Gods
Shing Yin Khor’s Eisner-nominated The Legend of Auntie Po is a fantastical re-imagining of the place that American gods like Paul Bunyan have in our imagination. The story takes place in a logging camp nestled within the Sierra Nevadas between 1885 and 1886 and is told through the eyes of 13 year-old Mei, a Chinese-American…
The Grief of Stones Deepens Katherine Addison’s World: Spoiler-free review
The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison is her latest mystery in the world of The Goblin Emperor. It follows The Witness for the Dead, presenting the Witness again solving murder mysteries and engaging in more derring-do than he, personally, wishes for. Slow-paced until a sudden action scene, the build has great pay off and…
2022 Hugo Award Reviews: Proof by Induction/Mr. Death
Starting today is Women Write About Comics’ annual review series covering the latest round of Hugo finalists. To kick things off, here are two of the contenders for Best Short Story…
Retro Review: Ang Lee’s Hulk Is the Best Iteration of the Character
For a brief time, in my adolescence, I was deeply into The Incredible Hulk. I inherited a solid run of Peter David’s work on the title, and I loved how this book, ostensibly about a rage monster who likes to smash things, was giving me scenes of Bruce Banner in therapy. I started counseling at…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: June 2022
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of June! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, a fresh Archie Horror release is on the horizon, the cast for The Archies is announced, Riverdale schedules its last bow, and…
VIZ Pubwatch: June 2022
Happy pride month, VIZ fans! Unfortunately, most of my offerings this month are not especially LGBT, but I do have a review of Oto Toda’s collection To Strip The Flesh, the titular story of which is about a trans man! But first, the news.