Every door may represent a choice, but what if it’s not your choice to make? In The Book of Love by Kelly Link, we meet characters who open some doors and are shoved through others as they grapple with the consequences of other people’s decisions. The Book of Love, Kelly Link’s highly anticipated first full-length…
REVIEW: Crave #2 – An Erotic Thriller with a Technological Twist
Crave #1 teased an erotic thriller with a technological twist. Maria Llovett’s second issue follows through on this promise while leaving readers chomping at the bit for whatever is next. Fans of Llovett expect the artist to explore sinful themes with evocative, sensual art, and Llovett does just this with an erotic thriller for the digital age.
REVIEW: The Resurrection of Magneto #1 Sacrifices Adventure for Verbosity
Magneto is dead. Not X-Men-dead. Dead-dead. With Krakoa in shambles and the X-Men destroyed, Storm must embark into the afterlife and succeed in resurrecting Magneto in order to save mutantkind.
Archie Comics Pubwatch: January 2024
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of January! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In January’s Pubwatch, Bingo Wilkins continues his bloody march toward fame! Also, there are plenty of new variant covers and much more!
VIZ Pubwatch: January 2024
Happy new year, VIZ fans! New year, new manga, new pubwatch from me! This month we’re covering all first volumes from new and established creators, including the new Taiyo Matsumoto series, Tokyo These Days. But first, the news!
REVIEW: Love is a Battlefield in Love Everlasting Vol. 1
You know the story. Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy loses girl. Girl runs away. Girl is shot dead by a mysterious cowboy. Girl wakes up in a new house, with a new life, and a new boy. Wait, what?
Roundtable: WWAC Reads Books! Digging into Winter Edition
We at WWAC have had an intense start to our winter reading, with a lot of heavy hitting books! Alenka’s immersed in books about incarceration while Christa’s reading YA speculative fiction to consider for a CYBILS award. Louis is appreciating Yellowface on audio and Kathryn’s fascinated by the short stories of Vandana Singh. Meanwhile, Masha…
REVIEW: Time Under Tension is a Profound and Confident Memoir
“I never wanted to be someone just working for attention or praise, I’m just trying to put it all in order. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s serious, but it’s always me.” In a market saturated with graphic memoirs about early adulthood and finding oneself, it’s unusual to find one that feels genuinely original. Rarer still…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: December 2023
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for December! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In December’s Pubwatch, Pop’s Chocklit Shop of Horrors is back in business! Also, there are plenty of new variant covers and much more!
VIZ Pubwatch: December 2023
Happy holidays, dear readers! ‘Tis the season that no marketing team can ever let us forget, and with it come holiday sales and gift lists and special editions of everyone’s favorite anime and manga! This month, we’re talking about Ai Yazawa’s classic Neighborhood Story’s first English release, as well as the new volumes of some…
REVIEW: Chaos Terminal Expands Mur Lafferty’s Madcap Universe (Spoiler-free)
Chaos Terminal is the rollicking sequel to Mur Lafferty’s Station Eternity—a fast-paced locked space station mystery with a fun and diverse cast.