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- Comics, Comics Academe, Essays
- September 12, 2014
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Even Quarantine Can’t Redeem the Hot Mess that is Bloodshot
- Reviews, Television and Film
- May 7, 2020
Bloodshot, aka Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel), an elite soldier with several successful missions under his belt, sees his wife killed before his eyes and vows revenge against her murderer. There’s just one problem: he was killed too. But Garrison wouldn’t let something like death stop him, would he?
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BOOM Pubwatch: May 2020
- Pubwatch
- May 7, 2020
Not much has changed since March, the world has still been turned upside down by a global pandemic. Thankfully, I’ve still been able to keep working from home and everyone if my family is healthy (including my brand new baby niece Eva who made her debut a couple of weeks ago) but it’s still a
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Archie Meets the B-52s, And the World May Never Be the Same
- Reviews
- May 6, 2020
Combining playful pop-punk camp and cheerful cheesiness, the Archie Meets the B-52s is handsome, funny and fun.
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Lockjaw Volume 1 is “D” for Delightful
- Reviews
- May 6, 2020
Lockjaw Volume 1: Who’s a Good Boy? has everything from the Savage Land to Spider-Ham to horse racing to space hamsters. And of course, our favourite slobbering doggo. What’s not to love about a giant teleporting bulldog who just wants to save his littermates from evil and will drag around a washed-up superhero to do
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IDW Pubwatch May 2020
- Pubwatch
- May 5, 2020
Welcome to the May IDW Pubwatch. The world is on lockdown but here’s something to distract you—a few exciting comics that will take your mind away, at least for a little while. I’ve also got the latest news coming out of IDW, some comic book reviews, as well as a selection of my favourite covers
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Network Effect Catapults Murderbot into the Wider Universe: Spoiler-free Review
- Bookmarked
- May 5, 2020
Network Effect is the fifth and as-yet longest installment in the adventures of Murderbot by Martha Wells, introduced in the multiple award-winning novella All Systems Red in 2017. The novel is a great addition to the series, giving readers exactly more of what we love from the Murderbot books: a beloved and sarcastic unreliable narrator,
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Katy Keene “Turns” the Page to the Met(a) Gala
In Katy Keene chapter eleven, It’s Met(a) Gala Time, Kiddies! As Katy struggles to balance her new Lacy’s job with life designing for Guy, she takes a risk with her client’s dress that might backfire. Add some drama with K.O. onto the pile, her latent feelings for Guy, and a revelation about the result of her
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Previously on Comics: Adrienne and Kate Are Great
- News
- May 4, 2020
Despite the pause in comics distribution and the limited access to comic stores right now, there’s still a lot going on in comics news, but clearly none of those things are as important as our Adrienne Resha and Kate Tanski joining the Executive Board of the Comics Studies Society, as announced on May 2, 2020. Adrienne
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Comics Culture: Visiting a Comic Book Store in Russia
Back in the Before Times when people could still go outside and interact with each other in close proximity, I went to Russia to visit my relatives, whom I haven’t seen in several years. From December 2018 to early January 2019, I stayed at my aunt and cousin’s apartment in the southwest end of Moscow,
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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Happily Ever After? A Fables Retrospective
- Essays
- May 1, 2020
In 2002, a comic that I would come to love deeply started coming out. It was a story of fairy-tale characters trying to live in the ‘real world’, and built on how deeply flawed all of these characters tended to be. I was still years away from moving past superhero comics, I had yet to
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Last Week’s Episode – If America Were a Reality Show I Still Wouldn’t Watch It
- Comics
- April 30, 2020
It’s been a month since the last time I caught up on entertainment news en masse and distilled it all down for you. But here I am again to report on the random happenings in nerd media. Over here in America, things are… I don’t even know how to put it in words. I wish
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Jane Mai’s Soft is a Brilliant Retelling of Carmilla
- Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews, Zines
- April 30, 2020
CONTENT WARNING: This article contains discussion of abusive relationships. When a friend recommended I watch a low budget webseries about a lesbian vampire who falls in love with her plucky college roommate, I didn’t realize it was based on Carmilla, a vampire novella by Sheridan Le Fanu older than Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I was fascinated
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DC PUBWATCH: Quarantine April Edition
Oof. Most of the month, there have been no new comics, which makes it pretty difficult to write about the new comics I’m enjoying and not enjoying out of DC’s stable. As quarantine continued into April, the shipping of new comics by Diamond was halted. When the whole industry relies on a monopoly to get
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Death to the Army of Darkness #2 Goes Back to the Well…Again
- Reviews
- April 29, 2020
The art gets a little better in Death to the Army of Darkness #2, and so far the writing is on-point. But can good crack win out? Or will yet another visit to Ye Old Cabin in the Woods lead to bad times?
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WWACommendations: Devil Number 4, Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Witch Hat Atelier, and More
- Reviews
- April 28, 2020
What comics have you been reading lately? Every month, WWAC contributors share some of our favorite comics we’ve read recently. I love this month’s picks which include manga, indie comics, and webtoons! Let us know on Twitter what you’re reading, and check back every month for more recommended comics!
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Portrait of an Artist: Georgia O’Keeffe Is a Lush Account of the Mother of American Modernism
- Bookmarked
- April 28, 2020
Portrait of An Artist: Georgia O’Keeffe, written by Lucy Brownridge and lavishly illustrated by Alice Wietzel, broadly depicts an iconic artist whose life was vast and encompassing. O’Keeffe is widely known as the mother of American modernism; her art is powerful and potent, and her association to the sprawling Arizona desert synonymous with her name.
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