Comique is a free app created by Sam Gwilym. It’s listed as having “in-app purchases” on the App Store, but don’t let that put you off, there’s no trickery to entice you into bulk-buying digital currency so you can expand your battle force. The App itself is just a platform. Though having written that just now,…
Hey Jude: Date Night With WWAC
It never seemed strange to me to have crushes on fictional people. After all, I would argue that the majority of people who fall in love are only falling in love with their idea of the other person anyway. Leaving behind my cynical views on relationships, I know that Osaki Nana and I were meant…
Gotham Academy #4: The Walls Are Listening
Gotham Academy #4 Becky Cloonan & Brenden Fletcher (W), Karl Kerschl (A), Karl Kerschl (cover) DC Comics January 28, 2015 Spoilers Ahead!
On Make-up and Femininity: WWAC Talks Make-Up
Make-up seems pretty quotidian, but it is a loaded sociocultural issue especially when you feel like it’s something you have to do to be female enough. The WWAC folk got together to discuss how our relationships to make-up and how it’s never quite so easy as yay/nay. We hope our contemplations will spur your own, and…
Playing At Love By Starlight: Date Night With WWAC
Should Chiba Mamoru (aka Tuxedo Mask) ever find himself in Toronto, I would definitely be selfless enough to take him round the city for a fun night. We’d start with Trivia Night at the Drake Hotel–the quiz would be a fun icebreaker for both of us quiet introverts. We’re also both of us voracious readers,…
Sunday Art Gala: WWAC Barbie Princess Power!
In Princess Power, Barbie’s latest animated movie, she plays Princess Kara who is kissed by a magical bug and gains all kinds of super powers and becomes SUPER SPARKLE! Being Barbie, she uses her powers for all kinds of good, from rescuing stranded sailors, to stopping time, to fixing bad hair cuts. Barbie invites young girls to join…
Valentine Vigilante: Date Night With WWAC
Just like the prologue in Romeo and Juliet, I will state from the beginning that the relationship between myself and Batman is a doomed love. He’s a rich Gothamite and I’m a Torontonian who isn’t rich. Long distance may work in some rare cases, but given that Batman is super intense and serious about his…
Multifarious: Shel Silverstein, Magnets, and Fauvists, or What the Hell is Art?
Last month, Vulture ran a piece where eight museum directors of such ivy-league museums as Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, etc. shared their favorite pieces of art. It got me thinking about how we come around to art, and as always, what the hell art is anyway. Obviously, we at WWAC have a pretty…
A Slice of Apple Pie: Date Night With WWAC
Maybe there’s a universe somewhere, let’s call it Earth-1127, where I’m myself but somehow single. If Loki fell into that universe in his Agent of Asgard incarnation, he would be my dream Valentine’s date. He could cook me a nice dinner and then [imagine a sexy fanfic, but with good grammar and spelling]. But if…
Weekend Review
I’ve been doing these weekend reviews for a few weeks now, and I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every time I write “On Monday…” I think of one of my favourite childhood books, The Tawny Scrawny Lion, written by Kathryn Jackson and illustrated by Gustav Tenggren. Little Golden Books were my everything…
Kickstarter of the Week: Jill Trent, Science Sleuth #1
In the mid-1940s, Jill Trent, Science Sleuth was a comic book heroine who caught criminals using her smarts and science. 65 years later, she’s in the public domain and modernized for today’s readers. Since 2012 D.M. Higgins has been editing the Super Dames blog highlighting women in comics throughout history with occasional commentary on gender issues in comics….
The DC Daily Planet: The Day DC Done Right
Let’s be real: there is no DC news today but THE DC NEWS: that, though a good chunk of the titles will stay in place and continuity, the n52 is coming to an end in June, with the launch of 24 new titles and a slew of new creative teams. Among the titles announced? STARFIRE,…
