Greetings to you from a place of calm: my day off after my biggest program of the year. This is a perfect moment to dive in to recommendations! A great stressor – albeit an important one that I value very much! – has been lifted, and there is space in my brain to really, truly…
Previously on Comics: Award Nominees Announced, But Also Distressing X-Men ’97 Drama
Hello and happy Monday from your Friendly, Neighbourhood Previously Editor! I’ve got a short and quick round-up of recent news.
REVIEW: Uncanny X-Men #1 Builds the Suspense with a Dream Mutant Team
Krakoa has fallen. In Uncanny X-Men #1, a small group of mutants, Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler, search for purpose in a world that continues to hate mutantkind. Mutants still need the X-Men because they’re being hunted, locked up, and killed. But what exactly makes a mutant an X-Man? That’s what this little team must…
REVIEW: The Power Fantasy #1 Is This Summer’s Strongest Debut
Image Comics’ The Power Fantasy is one of the strongest first issues from 2024.
REVIEW: Deadpool #1-4 – Real Laughs and Real Pain for Wade
Deadpool #1-4 gives us a dour, sarcastic Merc with a Mouth – whose gory glibness hides a whole lot of pain. Things blow up, people bleed, Wade is actively threatened with death (!!), and a new supervillain is right in Wade’s path. It’s not my favorite Deadpool arc, but it is sufficiently intriguing enough to…
EXCLUSIVE: Perfect Crime Party Anthology Stories & Creative Teams!
WWAC is excited to reveal three of the creative teams and stories in the upcoming Perfect Crime Party anthology, published by Iron Circus Comics!
2024 Hugo Award Winners Explore Spacefaring Futures and Technological Doubts
This year marks the turn of Glasgow to host the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), and Sunday saw the convention’s best-known event: the presentation of the Hugo Awards.
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
REVIEW: Ultimate Spider Man #3-6: A Dinner Date with Destiny
Ultimate Spider-Man #3-6 sees Peter Parker’s world opening up more and more as he directly targets Kingpin with the Green Goblin’s help. With a supportive family, new friends in Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborn, and Uncle Ben and J. Jonah Jameson starting their own newspaper – and making that pesky Spidey a main part of…
ESSAY: Hugos, Heavenly Kings, and Chinese Science Fiction
Last year, Flame Tree Press published Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers. In this anthology, consulting editor Patrick Parrinder and honourary editor Yao Haijun assembled a set of Chinese stories, all newly translated by Alex Woodend, and placed them alongside new (or, at least, fairly recent) English-language work…
VIZ Pubwatch: July 2024
Another month, another VIZ Pubwatch! This month, we’re talking about some of our favorites, including a rerelease of Taiyo Matsumoto’s GoGo Monster and the newest Steel of the Celestial Shadows volume. But first, the news!
