Where was Rana Fawaaz when the zodiac constellations disappeared from the sky? The mystery of the missing stars unfolds in Saladin Ahmed, Megan Levens, and Kelly Fitzpatrick’s Starsigns #1, from Image Comics.
REVIEW: Translation State by Ann Leckie Sets Off the Space Canon
A new novel by Ann Leckie is an event to anticipate and Translation State is just as gripping and beautifully written as we’ve come to expect from her. Go ahead and take the day off from work to read this one all at once. Then you can go back and reread it at your leisure.
REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — Angel Applicant Examines Life, Art, and Terminal Illness
Editors Note: This review is part of a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada. In Angel Applicant, Ken August Meyer chronicles his life with systemic scleroderma, an autoimmune disease he shares with Swiss expressionist painter Paul Klee.
Previously on Comics: Selective Memory
Good morning! It’s June. In a move both terrible and inevitable since their sale to content farm monster Valnet back in 2016, CBR has laid off the majority of their senior editing staff. Valnet had the usual corporate speak about culture etcetera, but the stories filtering out seem to highlight that the editors fired were…
ESSAY: Disability and the Joy of Community in My Beijing by Nie Jun
Disability has long had a presence in visual culture, but all too often it has been represented as something monstrous and non-normative. Scars and other disfigurements have been used as an easy way to signal a character’s moral depravity, how they deal with painful trauma, or how they’ve been deified into inspirational figures (as Stella…
Seven Seas Pubwatch May 2023
It’s going to be MAY! Hello pollen, hello my face! Hello springtime allergies! Hello continued mask-wearing! This month sees some releases that fans who love fairy tale stories will be interested in, a newer English translated work of a beloved Shojo powerhouse, and also some volumes for fans of romance and a reminder that good…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: April/May 2023
Spring is in full swing here in the U.S. Northeast, with all its joys (warmer weather, longer days), and its pitfalls (allergy season, that groundhog that chews on my doorframe to my back patio door). It’s a perfect time to take your comics reading outdoors. But maybe keep them away from the woodland creatures. This…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: May 2023
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of May! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In May’s Pubwatch, we’ve got more Danni Malloy on tap, we take a deep dive into several titles, we detail more about The Archies, we preview some new…
VIZ Pubwatch May 2023
Boy, do we have a lot to talk about this month! From the VIZ app launch (!) to the sudden repromotion of classic shojo manga (!!) and new shojo series for fans to enjoy (!!!), this May is bringing some serious flowers. That play on words was a bit of a stretch, but I tried!…
Previously on Comics: Farewells, Changes, and Adaptations
Sending good morning vibes your way! It’s another installment from your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously Editor. Last week was nothing short of heavy. Independent political cartoons and comics publisher The Nib announced that they would be closing down. Their final issue, the Future issue, will be their last. They will continue to publish every weekday till…
REVIEW: Put on Your High Heels for Wine Ghost Goes to Hell
Wine Ghost Goes to Hell is a comic that you must read twice. On the first read-through, let it wash over you. Soak up all the details Sage Coffey places in the backgrounds that color Wine Ghost’s world; her high-femme shoe fashion, the strange hellish liquors on the shelves at the bar, the wildly detailed…
