Step Aside, Pops Kate Beaton Drawn & Quarterly 2015 Back in September, Kate Beaton’s latest collection of her juggernaut webcomic, Hark! A Vagrant, won an Ignatz award for Best Anthology. It was up against Nick Drnaso’s Beverly, Sfe Monster and Taneka Stotts’ Beyond, Trina Robbins’ The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, and Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying. Step…
Mom’N’Pop Culture: The Halloween Blahs
On yet another morning when I’m wailing at my kids like a banshee and threatening them with everything from groundings to canceling Christmas to removing their right to attend college, it hit me that I’m definitely in a funk. Because the wailing and yelling isn’t how I usually like to parent. Don’t get me wrong, a…
Review: Ghosts by Raina Teglemeier
Ghosts Raina Telgemeier (Writer, Artist), Braden Lamb (Colors) Scholastic Graphix September 2016
Supergirl is Up, Up, and Away on the CW
Last night saw the Season 2 premiere of Supergirl, now on the CW. And while no one expected the sophomore season on a smaller network to match the show’s numbers during its tenure on CBS, the fact is Supergirl blew us all away, delivering the most-watched show during its time period for the CW in nearly…
Wonder Woman and the Silver Screen
In less than one year, we will finally see Wonder Woman in a solo live action feature film! The road was long, and winding at times—two decades of rumors and speculations to be exact. And it’s important to look at the history of what could have been and why it took so long.
Dogears: An Unfinished World of Unrequited Love
The Unfinished World Amber Sparks Liveright January 25, 2016 The Unfinished World invites readers into the slightly off-center realities characteristic of Amber Sparks’ fabulist short stories. The stories are quirky and interesting, proving that the only thing readers can expect from Sparks’ work is that the stories will be unexpected.
4 Takes On Josie and the Pussycats #1
Josie and the Pussycats #1 Marguerite Bennett and Cameron Diordio (w), Audrey Mok (p) Archie Comics September 28, 2016
Zombicide: Feel Real Despair!
It’s October, and while many of us here at WWAC are thinking about witches, I’ve got zombies on the brain. Generally, I like zombies, and with Halloween coming up, it’s the perfect time to ponder the nature of humanity and confront our discomfort with the dead by thinking about zombies.
3 Fictional Characters That Describe Me: The WWAC Edition
As self-identified geek girls, lovers of pop culture, and general all-around fangurls, we couldn’t resist jumping on the #threecharactersthatdescribeme challenge.
Jennifer Walters is Marvel’s HULK. It’s About Time!
Jennifer Walters has been a stalwart in the Marvel Universe since her inception in 1980. She was created as a quick fix solution for Marvel, who were becoming increasingly worried that the team behind the hit TV show The Incredible Hulk might add a female version of their star, just like The Six Million Dollar…
Previously on Comics: NYCC and More
There are the kinds of comic cons I grew up with where cool stars from your favorite childhood sci-fi series showed up to let you pay for their autographed headshots, and most of the reason you went was to show off your cosplay and buy the discount floppies you’d forgotten to pick up that past…
WWAC at GeekGirlCon!
Hey there! Are you in the Seattle area this weekend? Are you coming to GeekGirlCon? If you’re not, then do yourself a favor: clear your schedule. Then come to one of the most supportive, family-friendly, awesome, community-oriented, positive, and awesome cons around. Did I say it was awesome? But in all seriousness: this is my…
