Welcome back to the Aftershock Comics Pubwatch! This month we’ve rounded up news from New York Comic Con, Baltimore Comic Con, and more, as well as reviews for some of the books starting and finishing this month!
Good Sexual Citizenship Review: Great Ammo for the #MeToo Movement
Good Sexual Citizenship: How to Create a Sexually Safer World Ellen Friedrichs (Writer) Cleis Press September 24, 2019 We’re living in a #MeToo world where more people from marginalised communities are able to share their stories of sexual harassment and assault. Unfortunately, very few of the men accused of the crimes they have perpetrated will…
Costumers with a Cause is Cosplay at its Kindest
Near the Cosplay stage at New York Comic Con earlier this month, there was tucked a small table, with a few raffle items on it and containers full of cash. A couple of superheroes relaxed behind the table, as one might expect. Their banner read: Costumers with a Cause, and they were there raising money…
X-Men #1: Are We Not Mutants?
X-Men #1 Gerry Alanguilan (inker), VC’s Clayton Cowles (letterer), Sunny Gho (colorist), Jonathan Hickman (writer), Tom Muller (design), Leinil Francis Yu (artist) Marvel Comics October 16, 2019 Where so many superhero comics have nodded off into a complacent, lethargic sleep, X-Men #1 blasts into the room, wide awake.
Previously on Comics: RAAAAAAAAGE
For many of us, Monday morning means back to the drudgery of office working life and that general malaise of adulthood the Sanrio and Netflix series Aggretsuko reflects so well. Well, good news! All that rage we keep pent up due to bad bosses, bad dating experiences, overbearing family or friends, etc, etc, will soon be…
Con Diary: EXPCon 2019
EXPCon is a smaller convention located in Florida that has an interesting history. It was started in 2008, and ran for 4 years until 2011 before the convention went on hiatus. The convention made a comeback in 2017 by bringing all four voice actors for the game Final Fantasy XV all together for the first…
Unlikely Superhero: Margaret Atwood’s Angel Catbird
In 2016, before the first volume of the three-part graphic novel by world renowned Canadian author Margaret Atwood was released, a lot of interviews with her flooded comics news websites, as well as the literary subsections of major newspapers. Mike Richardson described it: “a bold and unforgettable new character, paying homage to both classic pulp…
Last Week’s Episode: The Cats and The Furious
Howdy team – we’re trying a new day of the week for these roundups, which of course I promptly forgot about immediately, but here we are! Thursdays! What a concept! This week I absolutely do not talk about any ye olde timey film classics, but please know that I have in fact seen a movie…
Across the Ocean: Izneo Pubwatch October
Welcome to the October 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,…
Vault Comics Pubwatch: Nightfall 2019
What’s going on in the Vault this month? As always, they seem to be busy with several different projects. Though they haven’t released too many comics since my last Pubwatch, they still have enough on the shelf to keep readers’ attention.
Poltergeist Girls, Part 2: From Carrie to Carol Anne
The Exorcist was part of a flurry of late sixties and seventies films about supernatural children. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) was the trendsetter, and in 1976 The Omen would expand upon the theme with the exploits of young antichrist Damien Thorn. That year also saw the release of Carrie, based on the 1974 debut novel of…
The ABC of Typography is a Font of Knowledge
The ABC of Typography Seyhan Argun, Aseyn, François Ayroles, Hervé Bourhis, Alexandre Clérisse, Olivier Deloye Libon, Delphine Panique, Jake Raynal, Anne Simon, and Singeon (illustrators), Edward Gauvin (translator), David Rault (writer) SelfMadeHero September 12, 2019 From its title The ABC of Typography may seem like it would be for toddlers, but it actually offers a…