Absolute Wonder Woman #1, set in an alternate dimension where DC Comics’ superheroes have all-new origin stories, reimagines Diana Prince. No longer a princess of paradise island Themyscira, Absolute Diana Prince is raised in literal Hell. Does that change the kind and generous being that Wonder Woman is?
2024 Ignyte Awards: The Saint of Bright Doors & Kill Your Darlings Among Winners
Friday, 8 November saw the presentation of the fifth annual Ignyte Awards. Originally attached to the virtual convention FIYAHCON, these awards, which celebrate science fiction, fantasy, and horror by diverse creators, have continued to take place every year despite the convention being on hiatus since 2021. Here are the highlights of the 2024 Ignyte Awards.
A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Late 1970s!
In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, this month I read Charmed Life, Drowned Ammet, and The Spellcoats! Charmed Life is the first in the Chrestomanci series, and I found it fun to revisit the introduction to that world and family. Drowned Ammet and The Spellcoats are the middle…
REVIEW: Indulge In the Sinful Desires of Eisner Winning Somna: A Bedtime Story
San Diego Comic Con 2024 hosted the Eisner Awards, and Somna by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay won for Best New Series. DSTLRY, the publisher behind Somna, is a relatively new publisher, and they have being proudly advertising themselves as a “new era for comic books.” Somna proves this is exactly the case, catering to…
Archie Pubwatch: October 2024
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for October! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news. In October’s Pubwatch, there are more details about Mr. Justice, some interviews, plenty of new variant covers, and much more!
Previously on Comics: It’s US Elections Week
Good morning from your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously Editor. I’ll keep it short because this week, nobody’s going to be concentrating on anything but the US elections. I’m not even in the US and I’m feeling the tension.
REVIEW: The Moon Is Following Us is Fall’s Must-Read Comic
Expectations for Image Comics’ The Moon Is Following Us were high given the powerhouse team behind it: Daniel Warren Johnson, Riley Rossmo, and Mike Spicer. This dramatic debut issue surpasses all expectations ten-fold.
Exclusive Preview: Josie and the Pussycats Annual Spectacular #1
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WWAC Reads Books! Supernatural Gender Edition
Cozying down into fall, we here at WWAC have been indulging both in books with really interesting things to say about gender, and as usual, books across the speculative fiction spectrum. Everything from horror stories to sweet, queer retellings of Arthuriana, we’re enjoying it all!
ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: Four Faces of American Vampirism
Some readers may feel that, so far, the stories covered in this series on nineteenth-century American vampire literature have shown an insufficient quantity of fangs. The first part covered stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Ambrose Bierce that dealt with the theme of the seductive revenant – but, strictly speaking, none were about…
TIFF 2024 Review: Queer Buries Its Narrative of Longing and Loneliness Under Surrealist Nightmares
Adapted from the autobiographical novel of the same name by Beat writer William S. Burroughs, Queer follows William Lee (Daniel Craig), a gay man living in Mexico, who longs for love and thinks he’s finally found it in a young man. But has he?
