News Sailor Moon Crystal Character Designs Revealed The designs showcase Sailor Moon and the inner Sailor Senshi from the upcoming magical girl anime based on Naoko Takeuchi’s classic manga. Sara Pichelli Named One of Marvel’s “Young Guns” Marvel’s list of rising superstar artists include Pichelli, David Marquez, Mahmud Asrar, Nick Bradshaw, Ryan Stegman, and Valerio…
Raise Your Hand If You Love Comics
We are excited to present you with a Brand New Feature! Look at the tag on this post. See how it shimmers and sparkles? And how it says Kids Comics? That’s right! WWAC is proud to bring you the feminist lowdown on Kids Comics! We’re going to be looking at youth oriented comic books, graphic…
News & Things: Thanos Is (Kind Of) Cast, Wolverine Is (Definitely) Dead
J.H. Williams III Reveals Cover Art for New Blondie Album Creator of all things beautiful and trippy, Sandman: Overture and (formerly) Batwoman’s J.H. Williams III, made a predictably beautiful and trippy image for the cover of a new Blondie album. Also, yes, Blondie still puts out albums: a surprise to us all!
Kickstarter of the Week: A Comic Spot
It’s simple concept: build community with a truck, comics and some foldable furniture. The Kickstarter campaign for A Comic Spot aims to do just that. In the campaign video, 18 year old Antonio, talks about how he’s been going to a comic shop for 8 years, but doesn’t feel a sense of community. The campaign…
I Gazed Into The Abyss And Codebabes.com Gazed Back
“CSS gives it a makeover,” the model in a sexy schoolgirl outfit awkwardly mumbles, in a heavy eastern european accent, “So it is sexy like me.” This might be the point where I vomit my brain through my mouth. Or maybe a blood vessel in my eye bursts from blind rage. After sitting through some…
A Superior Spider-Man Retrospective
Full disclosure. I am, now, have always been, and will always be a Spider-Man fangirl. I saw the 1966 Spider-Man cartoon when I was four, fell in love instantly, and have never looked back. I hung on through the Clone Saga and gritted my teeth through One More Day. Peter Parker has always been my…
What’s Hot? April 2014
Wendy I’m flailing all over the place over the new Rat Queens trade out this week. Jamie I’m loving the settlement credits I am getting from amazon.com and bn.com — apparently there was something involving the prices of ebooks on the NY Times Bestseller list. So both companies credited me back some of what I’d…
We don’t need your fangirl/fanboy hating t-shirt
Fandom can sometimes be ugly. There are those of us who are thrilled to have more people join party. And then there are those want to be gatekeepers, telling people they’re not “fan enough” to join. A certain t-shirt appeared at last week’s Wondercon and has been causing a stir on the internet. The shirt…
Dear Nice Guys… You’re Not Nice
Thought Catalog, the home of no editorial oversight and endless clickbait, published a letter from Leo Steven on Tuesday entitled, Dear Girls Who Are (Finally) Ready To Date Nice Guys: We Don’t Want You Anymore. Dear nice guys… Dear Leos of the world… You aren’t nice. You’re a checklist. A nineteen-fifties ladymag instructional on the…
Telling the Perfect Interactive Story
Telltale Games does exactly what their name implies: they tell stories in the form of video games. But not just any stories. The company produces games that feature masterful storytelling and incredible characters, building on richly established worlds that gamers and non-gamers alike will recognize. From Jurassic Park, Law & Order, and Back to the…
Storm Ongoing Series Coming In July!
That ominous rumble you hear in the distance? It’s not thunder. It’s the applause and enthusiastic response of X-Men fangirls reacting to the news. Marvel’s July solicits include the following exciting information: STORM #1 MARVEL COMICS (W) GREG PAK (ACA) VICTOR IBANEZ CLASSIFIED Sorry, my sisters in Storm love, that’s literally all there is. For…
Review: Ms. Marvel #3
Review: Ms. Marvel 3 Written by G. Willow Wilson Art by Adrian Alphona & Ian Herring Marvel Comics “Side Entrance” — Part 3 of 5. For those just joining us, “Metamorphosis” is the opening arc to the new Kamala Khan Ms. Marvel title. I’m reviewing the arc issue by issue and as a…