Hello! Kate here to help you start your week by catching up on some of last week’s comics-related news you might have missed. Sometimes there’s a theme in the news that comes out, and this week that theme is money. Specifically, people not having enough of it because capitalism is a system that punishes us all.
Top 10 Steven Universe Songs
By now the news has already spread among the fandom: five-season success and award-winning animated series Steven Universe has a movie coming up. Not only are we getting a feature-length Steven adventure with the Crystal Gems, Cartoon Network and Rebecca Sugar know their audience. The movie is going to be a musical, the second in…
Con(ference) Diary: CSS19 Comics/Politics
The Comics Studies Society held its second annual conference at Toronto’s Ryerson University over the last weekend of July. Drawing on the theme, Comics/Politics, CSS19 attendees from around the world participated in a conference that foregrounded Canadian comics scholarship and practice in plenaries featuring Tara Audibert, Cole Pauls, Camille Callison, Jillian Tamaki, and Fiona Smyth.
Batman: Rebirth #75 – It’s Bane’s World, We’re Just Living In It!
Batman: Rebirth #75 Tony Salvador Daniel (artist), Mitch Gerads (inker), Tomeu Morey (colorist), Tom King (writer) DC Comics July 17, 2019 Batman: Rebirth #75 marks the beginning of “City Of Bane,” and the beginning of the end to Tom King’s Batman run, and it doesn’t hesitate to come out of the gate with a compelling…
Jinn Packs in a Lot in Five Episodes, But I Still Want More
Jinn, Netflix’s first Arabic language property, follows a group of high school students as they navigate the supernatural. On a school trip to Petra, Jordan, a student dies in an accident, following which strange events begin to occur around the survivors. Despite general antipathy towards extra-normal events, the students begin to accept that Jinn may…
The Freeze Vol. 1: Who Deserves to Be Saved?
The Freeze Volume 1 Troy Peteri (letterer), Phillip Sevy (illustrator and colourist), Dan Wickline (writer) Top Cow Productions, Inc. May 8, 2019 The world is swallowed up by an unusual apocalypse when the entire population is simultaneously frozen in place. Well, everyone except Ray, who immediately discovers that he is the only person capable of…
DC PUBWATCH SDCC 2019 (and July) Edition
Greetings from the other side of San Diego Comic-Con! Oddly enough, most of the bigger news for this month’s DC Pubwatch came before SDCC, and unlike last year there were no big new series announced at any of the DC panels this year. Only Strange Adventures by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Doc Shaner got…
Last Week’s Episode: I Watch Sins, Not Homelander
The WWAC slack is trying to convince me to watch The Boys, but I’m currently knee deep in hate (?) watching all of Lucifer because I keep hearing good things about it, and also Tom Welling was in a season. Two Supermen coming to the Arrowverse just aren’t enough for me. Anyway, this week is all about being…
Cracking Open the Egg: William Gibson’s Alien 3
William Gibson’s Alien 3 Tamra Bonvillain (colorist), Johnnie Christmas (writer and artist), William Gibson (original screenplay), Nate Piekos (letterer) Dark Horse Comics August 7, 2019 In his author(ish) foreword, William Gibson relays the story of how he, an Alien/s fan, supposes he surprised and dismayed the studio by delivering a script for Alien 3 that…
Killers #1: Magic! Ninjas! Magic Ninjas!
Killers #1 Fernando Dagnino (Artist), B Clay Moore (Writer), Jeff Powell (Letters), José Villarrubia (Colours) Valiant Comics 31 July, 2019 Desdemona Rush returns home to find a masked man dead in her hallway, alongside her beloved companion. She needs answers—they lie in Burano, Italy, with a former covert colleague Roger Thorpe. Traveling there is the…
Catching Up With Rosemary Valero-O’Connell at SDCC
Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is everything I thought she’d be the moment I ran up to the 01: First Second booth. I was ten minutes late, sweating and anxious from navigating the crowded maze-like aisles of the San Diego Comic-Con Exhibitor Hall. In contrast, Valero-O’Connell embodied the effortlessly stylish vibes of the book she so lovingly illustrates….
Catalyst Prime: Seven Days With Gail Simone and Desiree Rodriguez
If all human life was to be extinguished in seven days, Gail Simone knows exactly what she’d do with her time: spend it with her son, husband, and their dogs. “I mean, I may want to go out and explore nature or something,” Simone mused in our recent San Diego Comic-Con interview, “but I’m more…