Thirty years ago, Marc Silvestri blessed this world with Alex “Havok” Summers taking his partially bare-chested, loin-clothed place as the Goblin Prince. Since then, Mr. Silvestri has given the world several more hunky himbos. From his own creations, like Ripclaw and Jackie Estacado, who set the bar for Top Cow, to his own rendition of…
Four-Color to Forearms: WWACers and Comic Book Tattoos
Tattoos are a way to permanently declare your allegiance, your identification, your love. It should be no surprise, then, that a lot of WWAC contributors have fabulous comics tattoos. If you’re considering a comics tattoo yourself (I am!), let this photo gallery serve as inspiration.
What’s a Homestuck Fandom After the Epilogues?
Let me tell you about Homestuck. Homestuck is a webcomic, first published by Andrew Hussie in April 2009. The comic consists of static captioned images, animated GIFs, Flash pages with music and animation, and interactive “walk-around Flashes” recalling early-2000s video games. The story follows a group of internet friends who play a beta version of…
DC PUBWATCH – End of Year Edition
Happy holidays from the DC Pubwatch! As we reach the end of the year, I want to reminisce a little bit. Over the course of the year DC published 729 books, of which I gave an overwhelming majority A’s or B’s. For the most part, other than a few books that missed the mark, it…
Remembering Charlee Jacob: Dark as Ever
“I want to be the woman in red,” says Grace to her tattooist. It is the latest step in her journey of transformation. Grace has tried dressing in red, adorning herself with an array of sanguine garments: “Rustling scarlet taffeta. Crimson velvet as thick and soft as bat flesh. Wine colored underthings clinging like guilt.”…
WWACommendations: Lois Lane, [ blank。], Witchlight, X-Force, and More
Happy December! What comics are you reading lately? Every month, WWAC contributors share some of the comics they’ve especially enjoyed recently. I’ve been trying out different comics on Webtoon Canvas. The comics published on LINE Webtoon are separated into Webtoon Originals, where creators have an exclusive contractual relationship with Webtoon including publishing schedule expectations, and…
Lisa Sterle’s Modern Witch Tarot Is Fashionable And Familiar
In the world of indie tarot decks, Lisa Sterle’s Modern Witch Tarot has been highly anticipated for quite a long time. The first tarot illustration she posted on Twitter was all the way back in March 2017—the Ten of Swords, depicted as a girl casually checking her phone while the swords jutted out of her…
Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran’s The Clock is Ticking
It’s almost impossible to meet a person whose life has not been touched by cancer in some way, taking family, friends, or our own lives from us. For Matt Hawkins, creator of The Clock, that touch was his own mother who was diagnosed when he was only 17. At that time, she was given only…
New Mutants #4: Ugh, Nebraska
In New Mutants #4, the young X-Men assembled by Armor in the previous issue are in trouble in Pilger, Nebraska. In the second issue of this storyline in the Dawn of X title, the young New Mutants face down high stakes with lives on the line, in a straightforward conflict with the villains of this…
PUBWATCH: AfterShock December 2019
Happy Holidays from AfterShock Comics, and from our regular AfterShock pubwatch coverage here at WWAC! Here you can keep up with our monthly publication watch coverage, bringing news every month on the latest from AfterShock Comics. Hopefully everyone is staying warm as they read dangerously.
A Tarnished Legacy: The End of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress, the once-influential anthology series that was founded in 1984, saw its thirty-fourth and final instalment this year. The series managed to survive a number of significant setbacks: one was the death of original editor Marion Zimmer Bradley in 1999; another was publisher DAW dropping the series with the 2004…
The Witcher Is a Confusing Mess of Timelines, Violence, and Boobs and I Look Forward to Season 2
The Witcher’s first problem is going the route of Game of Thrones early on by offering up gratuitous nudity and violence in its first few episodes, as if an audience will only latch on to a show if boobs and Mortal Kombat-style finishing moves are involved. Fortunately, it does settle down eventually, but it takes some time…