In our continued rejection of the Fake Geek Girl paradigm, What’s Hot? is our monthly feature re: what we’re feeling gleeful about in other parts of our lives. If you wanna know what we like outside of our usual WWAC beat — here’s where you can. And we want to know you too! Drop your…
Pigeons! The First WWAC Sunday Art Gala
It’s Sunday! Lazy, restful, busy or boring; it doesn’t matter, because either way you’re here with us now. In art class! Sundays are art club days, from now on. Wanna join in? We’ve taken a few minutes here and there to each draw a doodle on a single theme. Take a look through, admire our…
Brand New Batgirl Design Revealed, Internet Has Feelings
Let’s begin this way: Batgirl got a new design and it is awesome!
Football Comics! Bad Machinery V.1
Bad Machinery Volume One: The Case of the Team Spirit. Football! A comic with football in it. The World Cup’s still on! Bad Machinery is a comic from John Allison, who should be hailed even more loudly than he already is (I mean, I assume that he is? I take it for granted) for the wicked,…
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Cook Your Comics: A World-Saving Breakfast Battle Plan
What if I said you could save the world from certain doom just by making breakfast? Is that why they say it’s the most important meal of the day? Probably. I’ve arrived at this hypothesis after years of reading comics, which is obviously the best way to gain accurate information about the world around us….
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE: Your Favorite New Comic
I am not a critic, and this is not a review. I am a fan, and this is my spoiler-free reaction. I loved THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #1 even more than I thought I would. It shouldn’t have surprised me – I’ve been fully in the pocket of Big Gillen/McKelvie since Young Avengers started (yeah,…
Kickstarter of the Week: Kitchen Overlord’s Illustrated Geek Cookbook
I’m not novice to geekery in the kitchen. A couple years ago, I baked rotating Endor and Death Star cakes for charity, so food and geekdom are a marriage made in tasty snack heaven to me. And if you’ve been enjoying WWAC guest author Annie Bulluch’s Cook your Comics recipes, this is a chance to…
FCBD: 8th Dimension Comics
Annie Bulloch, 8th Dimension Comics, Texas You know Annie from her excellent Cook Your Comics recipes, here on WWAC — but a number of our twitter followers (f’rex: this one) also know her from her role at 8th Dimension Comics, where she’s co-owner. Putting her shop hat on, she answered our FCBD survey! How long have…
Cook Your Comics: Themysciran Daggers and Lady Blackhawk’s Buffalo Chicken Dip
Comics in the Kitchen Annie Bulloch serves up the first of–hopefully–many themed recipes on WWAC!
Store Review: Rodman Comics
Rodman Comics 318 South Ankeny Blvd Ankeny, IA 50023 (515) 965-4592 My partner and I just bought a house in Ankeny, Iowa. It’s a suburb of Des Moines (our capital city) with a population of about 50,000. I’ve been living out of state for a couple years and knew very little about Ankeny so I…
Self-Identifed Woman Comics Fans On the Rise
This month, Brett Schenker over at Graphic Policy posted a new statistic about women comics fans that’s causing a stir. Graphic Policy has been updating data, accessible via Facebook, for the past several months using data visualization with graphs and charts as part of their Facebook Fandom Spotlight series. Their project got a signal boost…
That Alan Moore Interview: A Response
Trigger warning: this article discusses violent sexual assault and rape culture and includes images of disturbing scenes By now many of you have probably seen Pádraig Ó Méalóid’s interview of Alan Moore (which I like to call The Longest Interview Ever). For those who haven’t – or who skimmed it because let’s face it, we…
