Hello again, comic book adventurers. It’s me Rosie, back once more with your regular Dynamite comics roundup. We here at Women Write About Comics are dedicated to unpacking the complex parts of the industry and unwrapping the underwhelming gift that is comics so we can all enjoy/despair about it together! So here we are, with…
52 Facts About DC, By The Numbers: August Week Four 2017
Or However Many I Feel Like, And They Might Not All Be Facts Welcome back to By The Numbers, the column where I count things in this week’s new comics from DC! This column will contain spoilers, but I’ll keep them as vague as possible while still amusing myself. What a week. Batman/The Shadow nears its…
Rebirth Roundup: Dark Nights: Metal #1
The Black Album. The Number of the Beast. British Steel. Ace of Spades. Back in Black. Every so often, there comes a piece of art that becomes so seminal it almost defines the artist. By first indication, Dark Knights: Metal will be that for the team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. While it is…
Book Beat: First Glimpse of the Mrs. W’s
Hello all! We are back this week with news about some of our favorite book series! Warner Bros. and the Tolkien estate have finally settled on a five year-long legal battle over Warner Bros.’ breach of contract and copyright infringement for Lord of the Rings merchandise – specifically “electronic and digital rights, rights in media…
That Bad Boy Image
Welcome to Image Boys Behaviour Graph or when this becomes an inevitable smash hit column IBBG. Where we celebrate 25 years of Image by making a very statistically accurate graph looking at what the boys are up to in this most momentous year in the history of the EXTREME bad boys of comics. WHERE THEY…
Get Your Game On Wednesday: The Seaman Cometh
Welcome to another Wednesday, beloved nerds. While I have been immersing myself in a delightful tale of debauchery and puns (I’m playing Ladykiller in a Bind), gaming news has forged ahead without me. It’s the one-year anniversary of Overwatch, so let’s go ahead and get all of that way, shall we?
Previously on Comics: TCAF 2017 Edition
Hello again and welcome to another Previously On Comics! This week is a special TCAF edition, due to WWAC’s zine and panel debut! Just found the @womenoncomics zine at #TCAF!!! I may be crying it's fine pic.twitter.com/z3K0tazlK9 — Angel (@angelcwrites) May 13, 2017 Check out the rest of WWAC’s twitter coverage of TCAF, including our…
Pinned Up: Accessorizing With My Favourite Fandoms
For some people, wearing a full article of clothing with a superhero logo on it might be too much “advertisement” that they belong to a fandom. Or they have to wear a uniform for school or work and are restricted from wearing their favourite Green Lantern top. Whatever the reason you have to tone down…
Book Beat: Shadowshaper Gets Optioned and I Meet Billy Boyd
Hello all! Hope you all had a good World Book Day on Sunday! This past week’s book news seems to be “books and media.” Obviously “media” can mean movie and TV adaptations of books but it also includes how authors express their opinions on social media. What does that all mean? You’ll just have to…
Previously on Comics: Marvel Continues Its PR Disaster
Hi everyone! Can you believe it’s already the end of April? I’m not going to say anything cliché like where has the year gone—because I know the answer to that question—but I do wish 2017 would slow down a little bit. On the other hand, Marvel probably wishes the next couple weeks would speed up…
Bleating Heart Press: WWAC Has Published its First Zine!
Bleating Heart Press’ Inaugural Double Issue Now Available! We’re proud to announce the release of Secrets of the Goat People #1: Voice, the first publication from our new imprint, Bleating Heart Press. In this inaugural double issue, you’ll find 40+ pages of original comics, illustrations, and prose from 17 international creators. Learn about the power of silence,…
The Cult-erion Collection: The 10 Weirdest Films You Can Watch on Filmstruck
Launched in November, Filmstruck is a new US streaming service featuring classic and foreign films. The product of a partnership between Turner Classic Movies and The Criterion Channel, Filmstruck is an oasis in the desert for cinephiles and thinkpiece writers bemoaning the absence of Casablanca and Citizen Kane on Netflix. (Though Filmstruck doesn’t have them…