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Book Beat: Greg Younging, Chronicle Books Turns to Audio, and the ABA Responds to Baker & Taylor News
- Bookmarked
- May 9, 2019
Hello, bookish friends! Welcome back to Book Beat, your weekly update on the literary world. With the weather getting warmer and convention/festival season getting underway, there’s lots going on. Unfortunately, not all news is good news. I’ve got a few upsetting updates, but I’ve also got new releases to share as well.
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Last Week’s Episode: One Universe Per Costumed Dipshit
- Comics
- May 8, 2019
Marvel churns relentlessly forward, no one knows what camp is, when will The Expanse season four dates be announced, and did somebody say multi-verse?
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Fighting Against Fascism in Supergirl’s “American Dreamer”
- Reviews, Television and Film
- May 8, 2019
Supergirl 4.19: “American Dreamer” Robert Rovner, Jessica Queller, Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti (Executive Producers), David Harewood (director), Joanie L. Woehler, Jennifer Lence, Carl Ogawa, Derek Simon, Chris Pavoni (producers), Jesse Warn, Gabriel Llanas, Dana Horgan (Supervising Producers), Lindsay Sturman, Rob Wright (Co-Executive Producers) Eric Carasco, Daniel Beaty, Aadrita Mukerji (executive story editors), Katie Rose Rogers (story
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Xena #1 Is as Good as the Gods Will Allow
Xena: Warrior Princess #1 Raul Allen & Patricia Martin, Erica Henderson, Paulina Ganucheau, Emanuela Lupacchino, David Mack (Covers), Vita Ayala (writer), Ariana Maher (lettering), Rebecca Nalty (colors, Olympia Sweetnam (art) Dynamite Comics April 3rd, 2019 Everyone knows her, and lots of people love her. Xena: Warrior Princess, along with her blonde sidekick Gabrielle and their friend Joxer the Mighty, reached
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Betty & Veronica #5: A Stunning Conclusion
Betty & Veronica #5 Kelly Fitzpatrick (colours), Sandra Lanz (artist), Jack Morelli (letters), Jamie Lee Rotante (writer) Archie Comics 8 May, 2019 Betty and Veronica’s newly found friendship has had its ups and downs—mainly due to a lack of communication—but that is all in the past come graduation day. As Betty takes the mic as
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Across the Ocean: Izneo Pubwatch May
Welcome to the May Izneo Pubwatch! We at WWAC have been diving into the latest in European graphic novels translated into English, and I can’t wait to share with you my latest finds. There are also some exciting offers from Izneo this month that you might enjoy. As always, if you haven’t had time yet,
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Dynamite Pubwatch: May 2019
- Pubwatch
- May 7, 2019
Welcome to the Dynamite Comics Pubwatch for the month of April! I’m Lisa, Dynamite is my explosive beat, and here’s this month’s news! Vampirella Reboot Slated for July; Adds New Anniversary Statue and Trading Card Set to Kickstarter 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first issue of Vampirella, and Dynamite is going all out
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DC Universe Expands Its Comic Selection With One Notable Exception
When the DC Universe streaming service launched last year, what could have been its biggest strength wound up being its biggest weakness. For years, Marvel has been expanding their own Marvel Unlimited service and it currently contains a large swath of their published material. When DC announced DC Universe, many assumed it was going to
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Batman: Ideals vs Reality With Ardo Omer
- Interviews
- May 6, 2019
With 80 years under his utility belt, Batman has evolved significantly since he spawned from the mind of Bob Kane, with contributions from Bill Finger. In his most recent iteration, the Dark Knight is, well, dark. But is that who Batman really is? Is that who Batman should be? Ardo Omer is both a Batman fan
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Previously on Comics: Comic Sales Stats and Some Cool New Comics on the Way
- News
- May 6, 2019
Last week, Nola Pfau created a brand new banner for Previously and I’m just gonna take a minute to brag about it because look at it? Isn’t it awesome! We’ve appreciated all the banners we’ve had in the past for our comics news column, but we figured it was time for a change, and Nola
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Strategy vs. Spectacle: The Real Victims of Game of Thrones’ Battlefields
- Television and Film, Essays, Opinion
- May 5, 2019
Game of Thrones has fielded many on screen battles since first airing in 2011. Whether by land, water, and now by air, every battle has been epic in their own unique ways. But since leaving behind George R. R. Martin’s books and introducing dragons and White Walkers to the battlefield, the show has increasingly failed
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Top Picks for Free Comic Book Day 2019
In 2015 and 2017, I read most of the Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) offerings and showcased the ones I thought were worth picking up. Some may call that an act of public service but I truly do this out of the goodness of my heart. Like clockwork, I return two years later to once
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Fat Thor is a Joke. That’s Why I Love Him.
- Essays, Television and Film
- May 3, 2019
Over the past week there’s been quite a few articles about the problems inherent to Thor’s new body shape in Avengers: Endgame, and before I get into my complicated feelings about what that means for me, as a fat person, I want to take a moment to affirm my agreement with the critics who have
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Focus on Comics Scholarship: an interview with Frederik Byrn Køhlert
- Interviews
- May 3, 2019
Routledge will be publishing a series of scholarly texts on “Gender, Sexuality and Comics Studies,” as part of its Focus Collection, which offers quick publication of peer-reviewed work, of a length generally associated with a too-long chapter, or too-short monograph: 20,000 to 50,000 words including notes and references. The editor for the Gender, Sexuality and
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Cook Your Comics: “Mom’s Mushroom Rice” from Pilu of the Woods
A story that really rings true, touching your heart and finding so many ways to be relatable in its fantastical exploration of a little girls struggles with her emotions, is great, but when it also includes really fun backmatter, that’s a whole other story. Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen tells us about
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Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin Examines A Civil Rights Hero
Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin Émilie Plateau (Writer and Artist), Montana Kane (Translation), Cromatik Ltd. (Letters) Dargaud (French), Europe Comics (English) April 17, 2019 Disclaimer: Izneo has provided WWAC with a VIP Access Pass. Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin had done the
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