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, a plethora of tie-in products have been announced, a new Madame Satan One-Shot is coming in October, and Katy Keene ends its run…
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novels – Part 1
Welcome to another instalment of the WWAC series that takes a close look at the finalists for the 2020 Hugo Awards. Previous posts have examined the contenders for Best Short Story, Best Novelette and Best Novella; now, we reach the final stretch. Here are two of the six finalists for Best Novel: Kameron Hurley’s The…
REVIEW: Hellions #2: Who’s Bleeding?
Our team of severely broken people arrives at the State Home for Foundlings and things get unbelievably messy in Hellions #2. Well, messier, because let’s be honest, things were already messy for this group of chaos engines.
REVIEW: New Mutants #11: Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
The New Mutants are no strangers to fear. But in the fictional, mutant-hating nation of Karnelia, the New Mutants find themselves in dire straits, with most of the team lost to the psychic nightmare projected by a young mutant, a girl named Cosmar. New Mutants #11 brings that story to a close, while fluidly laying…
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novellas – Part 3
Welcome to the third and final part in a series of articles looking at the works in competition for the Best Novella category at the Hugo Awards.
Cook Your Comics: Have Tea & Cake, Will Time Travel in Ash & Thorn #3
To fend off an imminent apocalypse the world needs a champion, and every good champion needs a wise mentor. But tensions are rising between saviour-of-the-world Lottie Thorn and under-appreciated guardian Lady Peruvia Ashlington-Voss, in Ash & Thorn #3. In previous installments of Cook Your Comics, Melissa Brinks whipped up some apocalyptic gingerbread and Wendy Browne…
REVIEW: X-Men: Free Comic Book Day Special Draws the First Sword
“Some forgotten place. Some forsaken time.” Quick! To what are the opening words of the X-Men Free Comic Book Day special referring: A.) The dying star where, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a Minotaur and a fish woman performed an arcane ritual to appease the Omniversal Majestrix Saturnyne… B.) My…
REVIEW: Batgirl #47 Revisits “The Killing Joke” AGAIN
If there’s one constant over the last ten years of Batgirl stories, it’s DC revisiting the time that Joker paralyzed Barbara Gordon. In 2011, when the New 52 launched, it did so with Barbara back behind the cowl as Batgirl, something that hadn’t been seen since 1988 in Batgirl Special #1. The Killing Joke hit…
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novellas – Part 2
Continuing our reviews of the 2020 Hugo Awards finalists in the Best Novella category, we move on to To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers and Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang.
REVIEW: The Art of the Darkness: I Have No Mouth and I Must Screw
2007’s The Art of the Darkness (I’m looking at the 2017 ten year reissue) is one of the coffee table burlesque publications you’re likely familiar with—most local comic shops, or comics sections of chain bookshops, will have at least one Frank Cho Heteronomicon on offer and/or display, for example. Many superhero artists who gain acclaim…
WEBCOMIC REVIEW: Tell Me A Story Does Not Tell Any New Stories
Tell Me A Story, a web series written and produced by Kevin Williamson that first aired on CBS All-Access in 2018, arrives on The CW on July 28th. The show advertises itself as a dark and twisted modernization of classic fairytales, with the first season focusing on Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and…
