Orphan Age #1 Ted Anderson (writer), Marshall Dillon (letterer), Juan Doe (variant cover artist), Nuno Plati (illustrator) AfterShock Comics April 2019 As the parent of an 11 and 13-year old, their independence means magic to me. It means I am free to go out on my own, without dragging them along or worrying about daycare….
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: High School is Hell Is the Right Amount of New + Nostalgia
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: High School is Hell Raúl Angulo (colorist) Jordie Bellaire (writer), Ed Dukeshire (letterer), Dan Mora (penciller), Jeanine Schaefer (editor), Matthew Taylor (cover artist) BOOM! Studios May 22, 2019 Buffy is back, and there are some changes. As far as reboots go, retreading and/or revamping nostalgic ground can be hit or miss. I’m going…
Dynamite Comics Pubwatch: June 2019
Welcome to the Dynamite Comics Pubwatch for the month of June! I’m Lisa, Dynamite is my explosive beat, and here’s this month’s news!
A Gathering of Letterers
If you’ve been following By the Letters since the series inception early this year, you know that I’ve been spotlighting the fine art of comic book lettering and have featured a few interviews with letterers, including Ariana Maher. We’re a big fan of roundtables at WWAC, so I asked Maher if she’d help me get…
Phoenix Rising: Kayleigh Hearn on X-Men’s Jean Grey
Redheads have a special place in our hearts here at WWAC, and one redhead in particular is the favourite of our favourite Reviews Editor, Kayleigh Hearn. Leading up to the latest X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, starring Sophie Turner as the titular character, Kayleigh has some thoughts to share on the rise and fall and rise…
Previously on Comics: You Can Keep Your Graphic Novel Gentrification
Perusing our weekly collection of news links and tweets in order to write this week’s news, I find myself coming up with very little. Does that mean that comics actually weren’t trash for once? Haha of course not! It just means that the trash was on the down low for a bit! Here are a…
Who Gets To Be A Sacrifice? On Black Widow in Avengers: Endgame
I don’t know how to feel about Black Widow.
4 Colorism, or, White Paper/Brown Pixels
Welcome back to this two part series on comics, color printing technology, and dark skin! We’re still here, trying to figure out brown. Luckily, things get a little less ashy from here on out. In the last section, we thought about technological biases against brown skin, which have cropped up and persisted in film technology and—I’ve…
Britain Versus Aliens in Invasion 1984!
Invasion 1984! Alan Grant and John Wagner (script), Eric Bradbury (art), various (lettering) Treasury of British Comics/Rebellion May 2019 A stablemate to the legendary 2000 AD, Battle was a weekly anthology that aimed to kick new life into the traditional British war comic. During its run from 1975 to 1988, it tried a number of…
DC PUBWATCH – May 2019 Edition
This month’s big DC news is bittersweet for your trusty DC Pubwatcher. Tom King is leaving the Batman title at the end of the year with issue #85. This means that King’s Batman run will clock in at 81 issues, 3 annuals, and a story from the Secret Files issue. This leaves it short of…
Immortal Hulk #17 Shines a Light on Bruce Banner’s Psyche
Immortal Hulk #17 Joe Bennett (artist), Al Ewing (writer), Ruy José (inker), Paul Mount (colorist), Cory Petit (letterer) Marvel Comics May 15, 2019 In Immortal Hulk #17, Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, with inker Ruy José, colorist Paul Mounts, and letterer Cory Petit, deliver another solid, unsettling issue in one of the strongest ongoing books of the…
Book Beat: Naomi Wolf’s Fact-Checking Blunder, Moby’s Memoir, and Marie-Kondo’s Children’s Book
Hello again, book nerds! It’s Emily, back to share the latest from the literary world. Now, I tend to lean a little more to fiction in my reading tastes, but my social feeds have been filled with non-fiction controversies lately (in addition to Game of Thrones takes and Toronto Raptors excitement). So, get ready for…