Welcome to volume two of Louis and Mon’s Fan Expo Canada 2024 con diary. We share all the things we got up to on the second day of the con. Let’s just say, it was a very new and very fun experience for us.
Con Diary Vol 1: Exploring Fantastical Lands at Fan Expo Canada 2024
Hello and welcome to Louis and Mon’s first joint con diary! Louis and Mon are twins and have been making an annual pilgrimage to Fan Expo Canada every year since they moved to the country. This year, they decided to pool their resources and share their experiences in one con diary to rule them all!…
2024 Dragon Awards: John Scalzi and Rebecca Yarros Are Winners While AI Art Loses
The Dragon Awards are presented annually at the Dragon Con convention in Atlanta, and the ninth iteration of the awards ceremony was held on Sunday. Eleven works of science fiction, fantasy and horror, as decided by a public online poll, were awarded with trophies.
Previously on Comics: 85 Years of Marvel Comics and Dissatisfied Artists
Hello and good morning! It’s your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously Editor with a short, sharp round-up of comics news.
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Diary of the Dead (2007)
Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
WWAC Reads Books: Summer Lounging Edition
Deep into the summer, we here at WWAC are combatting high temperatures by balancing our reading between romances, teens pushing boundaries, and thoughtful nonfiction. Any book can be a beach read if you bring it to the beach!
Archie Comics Pubwatch: July 2024
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for July! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In July’s Pubwatch, Salem gets another Archie Horror one-shot, and Archie starts to rolls out its Halloween lineup for 2024. Also, there are plenty of new variant covers and much more!…
REVIEW: X-Factor #1 is Far Too Facetious For Its Story
In X-Factor #1, Angel leads a new iteration of the group, this time recruited by the US government and a social media company. As mutant and human tensions continue to rise, the new team demonstrates that they’re not really up to the task of protecting pride and country. But with fame, fortune, and power up…
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Perfect Crime Party Targets Women in History
Pick up your candlesticks and revolvers and head to the ballroom, because it’s time for a Perfect Crime Party! WWAC is excited to share an exclusive preview of three stories in the anthology coming soon from Iron Circus Comics!
Previously On Comics: Endings and Cancellations
Good morning, how are you? It’s a long weekend in the UK and I am very excited to have one less day of work/one more day of reading manga and playing video games this week.
BOOKS: A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Early 1970s!
In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, for the first month I read Witch’s Business, The Ogre Downstairs, and Eight Days of Luke! These are three fun standalone books aimed at ages 8-12. Of them, my favorite is probably Witch’s Business for the way it shows children working…
ESSAY: Extreme Ghostbusters is Extremely Good (with Episode Guide)
There’s a piece of Ghostbusters media that often gets lost in the shuffle. No, I’m not talking about that one, I’m talking about Extreme Ghostbusters! If you’re unfamiliar, Extreme Ghostbusters [also known as XGB] was a short-lived animated series designed as a sequel series to The Real Ghostbusters. The show took place a few years…
