Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of January! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In January’s pubwatch, Archie previews another new Archie Horror one-shot; there are some April previews to be had, too; The Archies wraps production; Riverdale gets a spring return…
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #22
We’re thrilled to present this exclusive first look at Archie Comics’ upcoming release World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #22!
WWACommendations: Olivia Stephens, Oshi No Ko, Maybe Meant to Be and More
Oh boy oh boy oh BOY somehow we made it through 2022! And honestly, thank goodness! It was a hell of a year and I am happy about many things, proud of many things, and really ready to put them all behind me. However, we can’t jump into 2023 right without delivering you a fresh…
REVIEW: Dead Mall Closes in on Some Thrills
Dead Mall is a poetic, ghoulish, suspense-laden nod toward the past and the present – and promises to give us one heck of a chilling horror story. Genuinely great writing make this one a solid read, but one senses this issue is just a building block intended for a much more sprawling tale.
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…
Octopus Pie Eternal: A Wibbly Wobbly Timeline
On November 23rd, Meredith Gran posed a question on Twitter: “Lately I’ve been wondering if I should draw more Octopus Pie as the characters age. I guess this is a typical dilemma for an artist: find a new conduit for exploring life as you live it, or risk turning the old one into a whole…
REVIEW: The Night Eaters Book One Needs Another Helping
A new horror collaboration between Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night is a family horror story even before they introduce the demons. Set during the 2020 pandemic, the story explores the complexities of family dynamics with a nice helping of demonic energy.
WWAC’s Favorite Manga of 2022
For WWAC’s manga readers, 2022 has been a year of blood, guts and romance! Our top picks of the year include stories about vampires, high school sex-ed classes, and many more interesting and unusual stories that caught our attention and refused to let it go. And if you want to see what we loved in…
INTERVIEW: Amy Chu and Soo Lee Create a New Carmilla
Like many great adaptations, Carmilla is faithful to the source material while also modernizing it for a contemporary audience. The original Carmilla is a novel of gothic literature, a genre thematically marked by death, decay, opulence, innocence, and the supernatural [Editor’s note: Read our Carmilla Roundtable for the 150th anniversary for some more perspectives about…
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: Night of the Ghoul is a Pulpy Dip into Classic Horror
For movie buffs, it’s no obscure bit of trivia that many films have been lost to the ages due to things such as lack of preservation or catastrophic fires. Even some films featuring big stars or made by iconic directors can no longer be found in the archives, such as the 1927 Lon Chaney flick…
DC PUBWATCH – End of Year 2022 Edition
Hope everyone who celebrates a winter holiday had or is having a happy one, here we are at the end of another year, and another 638 comics covered by this here pubwatch. 2022 was full of great DC Comics, but really the two biggest winners of the year were Catwoman and Batman/Superman: World’s Finest.
