Happy Friday, crusaders! Are you still reeling from last night’s meme storm? I had white-and-gold llamas trotting through my dreams all night, and woke up with a great new design for Nightwing’s costume. Remember when straight-shootin’ 11 year old Rowan wrote DC a letter to tell ’em how it is? Well, DC finally responded this…
Windblade Returns in Transformers: Combiner Wars
In 2014, artist Sarah Stone and writer Mairghread Scott brought a brand new character to life in the Transformers comics, through the Transformers: Windblade miniseries. Its four issues saw Windblade, an idealistic and pacifistic woman, try to help the planet of Cybertron with the aid of her fellow robot from Caminus, Chromia. At the same…
Illustrating the new Thor: Interview with Marguerite Sauvage
By now you’ve likely heard the news. In the current run of Thor, his hammer has passed to a woman. We still don’t know her identity but it’s already time for her to make her first appearance in an Annual. And Marvel didn’t hold back when signing on the creative talent to produce this issue….
Bitch Planet #3 Review: Bitches Be Like….
Bitch Planet #3 Kelly Sue DeConnick (W) Robert Wilson IV (Guest Artist) Image Comics February 18, 2015 Third issues are hard. DeConnick mentioned in the previous BitchFest (the first afterward that follows the comic itself) that they plan for Bitch Planet to be roughly 30 issues collected into five trades. While comics writers are masters…
Drink Your Comics: Comic Character Concotions
For this month’s Drink Your Comics, we decided to take our cue from Dark Horse. The company recently teamed with Rouge Ales to create a Hellboy inspired boozy beverage. The result: Right Hand of Doom Red Ale. Thus, I prompted our staff and contributors to create and/or share their own alcoholic concoction based on one of…
[TW, NSFW] Spontaneous, Inevitable, Habitual, by Rachel Masilamani
Content Warning for miscarriage. NON PARTUM, a fictionalized memoir of the cartoonist’s journey with fertility is nicely complex–it spans decades of Rachel Masilamani’s life, and complicates narratives of middle class motherhood. In “Plan B-200,” Masilamani looked back at her high school years in order to juxtapose teen pregnancy and adult fertility difficulties. In “The Subject,” Masilamani looked…
James Roberts on IDW’s Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
James Roberts, writer and mastermind, talks robots, disguises, and the scope and humanity of IDW’s Cybertronian comics universe. Robot gender, robot psychology, and entry points for new readers — this sprawling conversation with WWAC staffer, Rachel Stevens, has it all. — Megan
Game Diary: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is the latest entry in Gearbox’s quest-oriented first-person shooter. The first entry boasted over 17 million different guns, which you could collect on a mostly random basis by opening chests. As the third of its kind (setting aside narrative-focused sister game Tales from the Borderlands), The Pre-Sequel’s pre-launch marketing was focused on…
Jason Momoa: Wet Naked Poster Child For The Narrative Revolution
On Friday, Zack Snyder dropped new photographs of Jason Momoa as Aquaman and, as I’m sure you all have realized, it is everything we deserve. There was a lot of talk on Twitter about how the new Aquaman was sexy—to his detriment to some but to his improvement for others—and, for some people, to whom…
The Thursday Book Beat: Egmont USA’s Titles Find A Home With Lerner
Egmont USA’s Titles Find A Home With Lerner The Lerner Publishing Group has acquired roughly 100 Egmont USA titles. The deal comes nearly one month after Egmont USA parent company Egmont Publishing decided to close its American unit after it failed to find a buyer for the division. Lerner will publish these titles under its…
Nobrow Gets The Digital Switch Right
Since e-readers and smart phone apps began turning our tangible reading material into ones and zeros there has been push back. Many claim a deep human need to smell, touch, and hold their comics, books, and newsprint. And let’s not forget the apocalyptic rumbles that our embracing of e-reading will lead to the eventual demise…
Books That Broke Our Hearts
Last Saturday was Valentine’s Day, a celebration dedicated to love and romance. Leading up to it, Women Write About Comics contributors got into the spirit by sharing their dream dates with their favourite comic book characters. But now that Cupid’s holiday has passed us by, we thought we’d look at the other side of the coin–heart break….