Hello faithful readers! Kate here, and I’ve been having a shitty couple of weeks, so I’m here to share all the fun stuff from last week because I need joy. And there was a lot of joy. WWAC has been nominated for another Eisner Award!
Archie Comics Pubwatch: May 2022
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of May! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, Archie introduces two new characters, Big Ethel Energy gets a trade release, and more!!
Cover Guy: X-Men – Hellfire Gala 2022
Welcome to Cover Girls. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Kate Tanski, Louis Skye, Kat Overland, Anna Peppard, Wendy Browne, and Kayleigh Hearn shake it up a little and share their thoughts on a Cover Guy:…
REVIEW: Boys Run The Riot Runs The Manga Section
Boys Run the Riot is an LGBT manga series with a transmasculine lead written and drawn by Keito Gaku (and team). This introductory volume to the series is a poignant and hilarious romp through gender discrimination, high school, punk philosophy, following your dreams, and how fashion is often a double-edged sword for queer people. Basically,…
REVIEW: Spider-Man 2099: Exodus Alpha #1 – Not Quite Grounded
I’ll admit that Miguel O’Hara is a character I enjoy more in theory than in practice. Spider-Man has never been my primary guy and that 2099 stuff was also never my hyperfixation. But, like Anya Corazon (who IS my girl), and Miles Morales, he’s another Latino in the gaggle of arañas, so you know, I…
VIZ Pubwatch: May 2022
Happy May, VIZ fans! In America, the school year is winding down, the weather is warming up, and VIZ has a bunch of new releases for me to share with you all! Today we’ll be talking about a few series new to me, and some new takes on 2000s classic Death Note. But first, the…
REVIEW: I Didn’t Know Fantasy Like The Bruising of Qilwa Could Exist and I’m Glad it Does!
Firuz’s family has escaped the slaughter of their people, the Sassanians, arriving at Qilwa as refugees seeking a new way of life. While Firuz dedicates themself to saving people at a free clinic, a new disease emerges with powerful political ramifications for Firuz’s people and their new home.
Sequential Sartorial: Hellfire Gala 2022 Reveals, Russell Dauterman Edition
Marvel has officially announced the framing of the 2022 Hellfire Gala, confirming earlier promises it would become a regular event. It is, however, significantly scaled back on a publishing front this year. Instead of a multi-issue crossover event, as we got last year, this year’s Gala is a single one-shot. That certainly hasn’t stopped Marvel…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: April/May 2022
Every little PUBWATCH I do, never seems enough for you, you don’t wanna lose it again, but I’m not like them (those other comics publishers)…. Maybe when you finally, get to love somebody, guess what: Silly jokes aside, this new Titan PUBWATCH includes a look at the Free Comic Book Day Doctor Who title, the latest…
REVIEW: Giant-Size X-Men: Thunderbird #1 – Finally!
In a recent Indigenous speaker series I attended, Dr. Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair spoke about Indigenous literature and I was excited to see John Proudstar, aka Thunderbird, included in his slides. Unfortunately, the X-Man was included as an example of how Indigenous people have been poorly depicted over the years, largely because it is not Indigenous…
REVIEW: Doctor Who: FCBD 2022 Reintroduces the Fugitive Doctor
A group of children unwittingly engage tiny hostile aliens, and it’s up to the Fugitive Doctor and the shadowy group she works for, Division, to stop them and save the Earth. Along the way, the Doctor may make some new friends.
Introducing the Standard Comic Script
When Steenz Stewart lost their job at Lion Forge in 2019, they went through a lot of pitches. Taking on freelance editorial work meant reading many scripts, and they quickly came to a realization when it came to the way they were formatted. “Every single script was different!” Stewart explains. “I thought, ‘This is exhausting…
