Welcome to Cover Girls. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Cori, Andrea, and Nola share their thoughts on the cover of Faith #1 by Kevin Wada.
REVIEW: In Lumberjanes: End of Summer, All Good Things Must Come to an End
The final issue of the long-running Lumberjanes series brings readers closure in an extremely satisfying and emotionally effecting way. Prepare your tissues and your granny knots!
REVIEW: Deadpool #9 Explodes – Literally
In Deadpool #9, Wade’s latest adventure puts him in mortal (and immortal) danger. The resultant goop and art are fun, and the humor high, just as it should be in all things Deadpool related.
REVIEW: Willie Nelson: A Graphic History Will Always Be On Your Mind
NBM’s Graphic History series focuses in on the forefather of the Outlaw Country movement, fearlessly exploring Willie Nelson’s best and worst qualities and wrapping the whole package in some truly breathtaking art.
REVIEW: Breathing In With The Graphic Novel Juliet Takes A Breath
Originally published in January 2016, Gabby Rivera’s debut novel Juliet Takes a Breath was a comforting read that I read as a recently out queer Black person in 2016. Now, the novel has been adapted into a graphic novel by writer Gabby Rivera, illustrator Celia Moscote, colorist James Fenner, and letterer DC Hopkins. Published by…
Review: Star Trek Discovery’s “There Is A Tide…”
In my review of last week’s episode of Star Trek Discovery, I complained that Osyraa’s (Janet Kidder) motivations were unclear. She leads the Emerald Chain, overseeing a mercantile trading system spread throughout the universe. She uses slaves, violence, and other unsavory tactics to keep control of planets under her command.
REVIEW: X-Men #16 – Reunited? It Doesn’t Feel So Good
“What are we going to do with thirteen X-Men?” – Angel, Giant-Size X-Men #1
Miss Zine Festivals? Shop at These Distros!
I’m not a social person, but I love zine festivals. In a typical year, I would have scrounged up some energy, tamped down my social anxiety and dragged my nervous self to at least a couple events. Despite myself, I always have a good time, and I spend a ridiculous amount of money on zines….
REVIEW: Daphne Byrne is a Voyage Through Gothic Visions
New York, 1884. Frederick Byrne has died, and his widow visits a medium in the hopes of contacting his spirit. But it is the couple’s daughter, a bullied fourteen-year-old named Daphne, who turns out to be a magnet for supernatural phenomena. She has nightmares of strange creatures, undergoes harrowing visions when awake, and is followed…
REVIEW: Wolverine #8 – Patching Up Old Wounds
Eight issues in, Wolverine reminds me of the most overlooked part of the action movies era of the 1980s—the questions asked by veterans, by survivors, of the wars they were lied to about, and the silence that continues in lieu of an answer.
REVIEW: EXCALIBUR #16 – The Search For Betsy
With X of Swords in the rear view, and with it Apocalypse, the Excalibur team is trying to enjoy some quiet down time in Excalibur #16. Enjoyment is hard to come by however, as one of their own is still missing. Betsies Braddock from across the multiverse helped to save the day in X of…
REVIEW: New Mutants #14 – What Up, Warlock?
New Mutants as a title and a team managed to leave X of Swords unscathed — while Cypher is now married to Bei the Blood Moon, he’s taken his bride back to Krakoa with him and appears none the worse for wear. In New Mutants #14, we find that the team members who weren’t off…