This is the strange season that is not quite winter, but not quite yet spring – – warm one day, then a snowstorm the next. Comics, however, have no season – they’re good year round! This month, we catch up on the two series we looked at last month while adding in a new one:…
REVIEW: Godfell #1 Has A Hard Landing
Godfell‘s first issue is the story of a warrior’s journey home. Whether it’s because she’s weary or I am, the journey so far feels like a chore.
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: December 2022/January 2023
Happy New Year! Titan PUBWATCH is back for 2023 and it’s looking to be a great year of comics coming from across the pond. This first installment of the New Year takes a look at two new series: the newest Blade Runner installment and one of Titan’s first titles from their new manga imprint!
WWAC’s Favorite Big Press Comics of 2022
2022 was a wild ride for comic book fans, taking readers from the center of the Earth to mutant cities on Mars. Narrowing down our favorite big press comics of the year was a monumental task, but with help from Laila Starr and Nubia, Queen of the Amazons, we were up to the challenge. Just…
REVIEW: Complex, Challenging Issues Take Root in Damn Them All #2
Content warning: This review discusses suicide, gun violence, police violence, and school shootings. Damn Them All #2 opens with a bit of backstory. It’s to explain Dora—the American police detective who appeared in issue #1 —and her entanglement with Alfie Hawthorne, the uncle of our protagonist, El.
REVIEW: IDW’s Earthdivers Dives Right In
The mission is simple. Go back in time. Kill Christopher Columbus. Save the world. Stop the harm to generations that Europeans caused. Stop two apocalypses. Easy. But at what cost? That is the question that creators Stephen Graham Jones and Davide Gianfelice explore in the new ongoing series Earthdivers.
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: October/November 2022
It is hard to believe that there are only about six weeks left in 2022. (Compounding this is that the weather in the Northeastern U.S. has been unseasonably warm, making it feel more like early spring or fall than November!) But even as 2022 draws to a close, we still have plenty of good comics…
REVIEW: Ted Anderson Explores Feelings & Superpowers in Side Effects
Every superhero has an origin story. But most people will probably go their whole life without being bombarded by gamma rays or bitten by a mutant spider. What if superpowers could originate from something a little closer to home, like say, from our own health and the ways that we treat it? This is the…
REVIEW: Damn Them All #1 Is Devilishly Fun, But Needs to Find Its Footing
Some comics invite comparisons to their inspirations. Some stick their hand into your face and beg for them—Damn Them All #1, from writer Simon Spurrier, artist Charlie Adlard, colorists Sofie Dodgson and Shayne Hanna Cui, and letterer Jim Campbell, is the latter.
REVIEW: Fantastic Four Forgoes Foursome For Forties Fun
Fantastic Four titles have had a tumultuous decade or so, and it’s enough to make even a diehard F4 fan wary. Fortunately, I’m not one of those, so I jumped right in!
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: August/September 2022
The calendar still says summer for a few more weeks. But there’s a chill in the air, Pumpkin Spice everything is back on shelves, and kids are back in school. Onward to autumn! Our latest Titan PUBWATCH installment continues our look at Doctor Who: Origins with a double dose of reviews and more of the adventures of…
REVIEW: The Bubble Graphic Novel is Beautiful But Empty
Bubble, the graphic novel adaptation of the Maximum Fun podcast, feels a lot like fanfiction. I don’t mean that to denigrate fanfiction, nor necessarily even Bubble. If you’re the audience for it, you’re the audience for it, and as it turns out, I am most definitely not the audience.