Like A Psalm for the Wild-Built before it, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a meandering and gentle novella, exploring what it means to have purpose and be satisfied with yourself and your role in your community. It’s beautifully written and philosophically engaging. A Prayer for the Crown Shy picks up where A Psalm for…
INTERVIEW: Exploring the Outer Wilderness with Claire Scully
London-based freelance illustrator Claire Scully goes beyond the edges of the universe in the third and final installment of her introspective journey through self-imagined places. In the Outer Wilderness, Scully invites us to step into the unknown through unique landscapes inspired by her love of science fiction, imagination, and space documentaries. As always, Scully’s work…
Previously On Comics: Bored On The Fourth Of July
Good morning. Here’s your Fourth of July reminder that patriotism, jingoism, and nationalism exist to stoke the average person’s zeal for an abstract concept into a tool meant to be wielded in the oppression of others. There is no reason to love the USA — it was built on slavery and genocide, and the only…
REVIEW: Stranger Things: The Experience Is Silly, Spooky Fun
Immersion experiences can be hit or miss, but I often feel like its a two-way street where the audience member has to let themselves be immersed. Sure, there’s definitely shoddily constructed experiences; I have been in a haunted house where a wall quite literally fell down when I touched it. But are you someone who screams…
2022 Hugo Award Reviews: Tangles/The Sin of America
Welcome to the second part of WWAC’s 2022 Hugo Award review series. This instalment shall be covering two more Best Short Story finalists: Seanan McGuire’s “Tangles” and Catherynne M. Valente’s “The Sin of America”…
Twelve Percent Dread will Resonate and Satisfy: An Interview with 100% of Emily McGovern
Emily McGovern’s latest graphic novel, Twelve Percent Dread, might increase your personal dread percentage, even as it entertains. It’s about roommates and former couple Katie and Nas, scrambling to get Nas’s visa approved and to survive in the gig economy. It’s also about a tech giant making terrible ethical decisions, and how their employees become…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Prepare Yourself Mutant: Memories of Neal Adams’ X-Men
Our Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon.
REVIEW: The Legend of Auntie Po: We Make Our Own Gods
Shing Yin Khor’s Eisner-nominated The Legend of Auntie Po is a fantastical re-imagining of the place that American gods like Paul Bunyan have in our imagination. The story takes place in a logging camp nestled within the Sierra Nevadas between 1885 and 1886 and is told through the eyes of 13 year-old Mei, a Chinese-American…
DC PUBWATCH: DC Pride 2022 Edition
Happy Pride! DC Pride 2022 kicked off the celebration for us this year!
The Grief of Stones Deepens Katherine Addison’s World: Spoiler-free review
The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison is her latest mystery in the world of The Goblin Emperor. It follows The Witness for the Dead, presenting the Witness again solving murder mysteries and engaging in more derring-do than he, personally, wishes for. Slow-paced until a sudden action scene, the build has great pay off and…
2022 Hugo Award Reviews: Proof by Induction/Mr. Death
Starting today is Women Write About Comics’ annual review series covering the latest round of Hugo finalists. To kick things off, here are two of the contenders for Best Short Story…
Previously On Comics: Marvel Keeps Apologizing for This Same Kind of Shit
What is up my fellow non-fundamental rights having people? Are you ready to get this party started? Yes. Let’s do this. Let’s get into the last week of comics news. I regretfully begin another Previously with news of a member of the comics family’s untimely passing. Mike Pasciullo, Senior Vice President of Marvel Television &…
