Lady Killers Tori Telfer Harper Collins Publishers October 10, 2017 A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Lady Killers is for anyone who treats themselves to the occasional morbid indulgence. It plugs a lot of the gaps traditionally left out of roundups of history’s most brutal murderers.
WWE #9: Shield Me From My Brother [GIFs]
WWE #9 Dennis Hopeless (Writer) Serg Acuña (Artist) BOOM! Studios September 27, 2017 It’s the Big Dog’s turn to shine in WWE. Issue #9 starts the third arc of the series. After concentrating on Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose, we naturally move on to Roman Reigns. We also move onto the character hardest to tackle.
Game Enjambment: Waking Up in the Nexus [GIF] (Yume Nikki)
Game Enjambment is a reoccurring poetry series on games and gaming. The inspiration for this poem stems from Yume Nikki, a surrealist Japanese game about a young girl, Madotsuki, who may be dealing with depression and anxiety. Surrealism, as a style, often relies on manifesting images from our subconscious in order to interpret the self….
Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook: As Strangely Charming as its Hero
Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld (Writers), Joshua Cassara (Art), Luis Guerrero (Colors), Simon Bowland (Letters) Titan Comics September 5, 2017
Book Beat: Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Hello all, Stephanie here! There’s been a lot going on in the book world lately, from more award announcements to surprising industry collaborations. So, let’s get right to it with this week’s Book Beat! Double Book Birthdays for Nnedi Okorafor Fans of Dr. Nnedi Okorafor have a lot to celebrate right now. Her latest novel Akata Warrior, the…
BOOM! Bar: A Light Week, Thank Goodness
Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers Year One Deluxe Hardcover: It’s pretty good! Solid all in all. A big fat book (500 pages) that will look good on your shelf and not embarrass you if anyone asks to read it. My comments about the series from last week still stand, but if you want to read a…
Dragon Con 2017: Highs and Lows
This year, several folks on the WWAC team spent a long Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, GA, enjoying the combination of panels, programming, and partying that is Dragon Con. With over 80,000 attendees, 400 guests, and a parade, there’s something for everyone at this convention, and this particular con diary. Come for the cosplay gallery,…
Hi-Fi Fight Club: Mix Tape(d Fists)
Hi-Fi Fight Club (BOOM! Box) is currently on issue #2. Nola’s feature on the nebulous drawbacks of the first issue spoke to a lot of my own feelings. We both like the book, and would (or have) recommend it as a monthly read, but we both also perceive it to be imperfect. It can feel…
Get Your Game On: A Gay Girls’ Baseball Team and YouTube Woes
Happy October! What games are you playing lately? I played a bit of Hitman: Sniper, an Android and iOS game where you play as a sniper tasked with increasingly difficult challenges (e.g., kill a guard by making another guard fall onto them). It only has two maps, but for one dollar, it’s a good time…
The Women Of Auteur Film: A Chat With Sherilyn Fenn
What is an Auteur? Well the technical definition is a simply a filmmaker who has a singular recognisable vision, though you can guarantee they’ll also be a man as no women have been deemed important or visionary enough to become members of this elite club. As we all know, the singular vision of men is…
Finding the Way Home: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon Akashic Books October 3, 2017 During a particularly tumultuous phase of my early undergraduate career, marred by angry confusion at the unfamiliar metamorphosis of my identities, I stumbled upon a class about slavery. Of course, on my predominantly white, liberal-ass college campus, at the dawn of Obama’s second presidency,…
Kick Or Treat – Fall Kickstarters
We’ve just entered the spookiest time of the year, and is there anything scarier than missing out on comics projects? I mean, probably, but also, no! Here are some great comics Kickstarters for you to check out! Ladies’ Night Anthology Vol. 5: Sisters 24 Hours Left! Here at WWAC, we have a specific focus on…
