The superhero tide isn’t ebbing any time soon. Year after year, we see new adaptations of comic book properties arrive on every screen we have access to. From familiar names to relative unknowns, viewers are being bombarded by some new hyper-powered being or other. Valiant entered the game this March with their live-action adaptation of…
Last Week’s Episode: And the News Start Coming and It Don’t Stop Coming
It’s 2020. It’s July and there is still a global pandemic. Not that Hollywood that bothered anymore. After a couple of months of COVID-impacted news we’re back to a lot of renewals, announcements, and plenty of things to be both overjoyed and annoyed about. So without further ado please get comfortable and enjoy this entry…
Titan Comics Pubwatch: July 2020
This is a very different summer, but one constant remains: comics to provide us distraction and escape. Let’s see what Titan has to distract us from the real world.
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novellas – Part 1
Welcome back to the Women Write About Comics series looking at the finalists for the main prose categories at the Hugo Awards. Past instalments have covered Best Short Story and Best Novelette; now, it is time to look at the category for stories long enough to fill books, but still a little too short to…
REVIEW: What We Don’t Talk About Is an Unflinching Look at Racism in Intimate Spaces
In What We Don’t Talk About, Farai and Adam plan a trip to see Adam’s parents for the first time in their two-year relationship. While Farai is excited at the prospect of meeting her partner’s family, Adam is out of sorts about the trip. From the moment his parents open the door, we get an…
REVIEW: John Constantine: Hellblazer #7: The Only Time You’ll Read “Gamete Package” in a Comic
John Constantine: Hellblazer has taken us through many seedy aspects of England, but in issue #7, the beginning of a new arc, we go somewhere new: Billingsgate Market, a fish market in Canary Wharf.
Third Shift Society is Tired
Third Shift Society by Meredith Moriarty is a Webtoon Original comic about a broke 20-something named Ellie who discovers she has psychic powers and becomes a paranormal investigator, working with a mysterious man who has a Jack-O-Lantern for a head. The first season is now complete, and since this Webtoon was nominated for an Eisner…
Vault Comics Pubwatch: July 2020
Hopping straight into the news with the Vault Comics Pubwatch for July 2020, it’s a bit unpleasant to start:
REVIEW: Harrow the Ninth Goes Well Beyond Gideon’s “Lesbian Necromancers in Space”
After the events of Gideon the Ninth you may be asking yourself, is Harrow okay? Like, not “doing good” exactly but basically…all right? I am here to tell you, No. No, Harrow is not in any way okay.
INTERVIEW: Planet DIVOC-91 Tackles COVID-19 Through Webtoon
COVID-19 is hitting all of us hard in many different ways. As the medical and scientific community struggle to decipher the many moving parts of the disease, so too does the rest of the world struggle to navigate the new and dangerous world we live in, haunted by an invisible enemy. It’s all very frightening…
X-Force #10: Midnight In The Garden of Evil and…Eviler
I feel almost…out of practice writing this. It’s been a while since we last had an issue of X-Force, and with the way the last few months have been, it’s been difficult to hold focus. It’s with some relief that I find a connection to that in Jean this issue.
Previously On Comics: Refresh and Re-vote
Comics has been remarkably quiet this week but not so quiet that we have been able to forget that Eisner season is truly upon us. That’s right friends, it’s almost time to get dressed up in your best cargo shorts and make your colleagues feel uncomfortable in the name of creative achievement. How they are…
