Comics Academe: How Do You Teach Comics?
- Comics, Comics Academe, Essays
- September 12, 2014
Culture doesn't fit in a box. Neither do we.
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Patreon Exclusive: Subterranean Mutant Semiotics: Morlocks, X-Factor, and the Privilege of Passing
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Content Warning: This essay includes discussions of transphobia, anti-trans violence, trans-medicalism and passing.
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Last Week’s Episode: Is Anyone Still Watching??
- News, Television and Film
- March 19, 2020
Hellooooo out there??? Is anyone still out reading this?? With most of the world under self-imposed social-isolation or government-imposed quarantine, it’s hard not to feel a little bit alone. But we here at Women Write About Comics are still writing, thinking, and sharing all our pop-culture thoughts, and despite the fact that most people are
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BOOM Pubwatch: March 2020
- Pubwatch
- March 19, 2020
At the start of this month, I was on vacation. Sitting poolside with a stack of reading material. I definitely wasn’t expecting that a week later I would be preparing to work from home and self-isolate. I was forced to stay at home for a few months last winter, and the memory of that still
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Vault Comics Pubwatch: The Inaugural #VaultVanguardCon Begins
- Pubwatch
- March 19, 2020
COVID-19 lockdown protocols are hitting all of us hard. Vault Comics was one of the publishers that announced cancellations well ahead of Emerald City Comic Con’s ultimate cancellation due to COVID-19, but they teased plans for a virtual “Vault Vanguard” offering. Now we know what that teasing is all about with the launch of Vault
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Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Feminist Fight Choreography
- Comics
- March 19, 2020
Seeing myself in a piece of media never gets old. There’s a basic kind of representation that feels all right — oh, another queer person, a bisexual person, cool! — but every so often I find something special that really, truly resonates. I usually expect to find that feeling more in books or indie comics
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Outlawed #1: Ballad of a Teenage Superhero
- Reviews
- March 18, 2020
Outlawed #1, by Ewing, Jacinto, and Grundetjern, is an ambitious one-shot, meant to disrupt the status quo of the Marvel Universe. At least, the status quo for teen superheroes: superheroes whose superpowers don’t quite translate to systemic power.
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X-Force #9: Head Like a Hole
- Reviews
- March 18, 2020
My take away from this issue of X-Force is that Domino needs Colossus like she needs a hole in the head.
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Artemis and the Assassin #1 Hits the Wrong Target
Nothing captures my attention more in a comic than when creators introduce a strong, competent woman in the first few pages of new series, ass first. Obviously that’s a lie. Well, not exactly. It does capture my attention but for the wrong reasons. It’s a good butt. It’s a butt that the artists drew with
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Helen Mullane on Her Folk Horror Graphic Novel Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen
- Comics
- March 18, 2020
Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen introduces us to a young, jaded London teen living her typical jaded teen life that is not at all pleased about having to spend her summer in the countryside. When Nissy meets a handsome older man named Reggie, she finds herself drawn to him. Exploring the tumultuous emotions of a
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Tango vols. 1-3: Perfectly Escapist Comics
- Reviews
- March 17, 2020
The Tango series is perfectly escapist comics, with plenty of welcome cinematic parallels. If you want to get away for a minute, and you enjoy spending time with ideas of men, this is a book for you. Compared to aesthetically similar books it’s lighter than The Killer (no philosophical challenges here, though it’s not without
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Death to the Army of Darkness #1 Shows Signs of Life
- Reviews
- March 17, 2020
This latest incarnation of Dynamite’s Army of Darkness comic starts out with a fun and well-characterized bang, with some nifty art to boot.
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Random House Book Club Is Extremely Hip
- Bookmarked
- March 17, 2020
If you want to drink wine and chat with smart enthusiastic people about a buzzy book in an extremely cool lounge, the publisher Random House has your back. Continuing their pattern of innovative New York City event planning after their fun Book Fair for Grownups last fall, Penguin Random House launched a swanky new monthly
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Cable #1 Is Gunning for Greatness
- Reviews
- March 16, 2020
It’d be easy to chalk it up to lowered expectations, but somehow Cable #1 is the best book of the week and that fact is blowing my mind.
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New Mutants #9: New Faces, Scary Places
- Reviews
- March 16, 2020
The New Mutants are no stranger to horror as a genre, from classic stories involving hauntings to modern nightmares of the technarchy. In issue #9, the team plunges directly into a young mutant’s fearscape in an attempt to help, but quickly find themselves overwhelmed by the unexpected. New Mutants brings the Dawn of X a
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X-Men #8: Can I Offer You a King Egg in This Trying Time?
In Krakoa, no one can hear you scream!
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Previously on Comics: Flattening that Curve
Things are a little strange and unusual right now. Our governments are not on the same page when it comes to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is a whole lot of panic and confusion and people still not realizing how serious this is. But this isn’t a time for panic. It’s a time
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