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ESSAY: The Evolution of Oracle and Disability Representation

September 7, 2023

Barbara Gordon is a woman of many names, faces, and identities. Batgirl, Oracle, crime fighter, hacker, able-bodied, wheelchair user, and most importantly: hero. She is one of, if not THE most famous disabled caped crusader to date. In addition to her tenure as Batgirl, she’s had a long and ...

News, Television and Film

Last Week’s Episode: Monopolies and Movies and Mayhem, Oh MY!

May 21, 2021

Welcome back to Last Week’s Episode! This week we have more depressing news about a merger that will end one monopoly and create a new one, YAY! But there’s actually a ton of legitimately exciting movies and TV to talk about too, so it’s not all bad. Let’s get to it!

Comics, News, Pubwatch, Reviews

DC PUBWATCH – October 2020 Edition

October 29, 2020

This is an interesting month for DC news and solicits because most of DC’s January books are going to be part of Future State. This is a two-month line-wide detour into possible futures of the DC universe. The important things to note are the breaks from the standard 20-page monthly book. Many ...

Comics, Essays

Race in DC’s Middle Grade and Young Adult Comics

August 21, 2020

Over the last two years, DC Comics has released more than a dozen titles geared towards children and teenagers, many of which are written by women and feature, as leading characters, girls. However, although a number of these books have people of color on their creative teams, whether as ...

Comics, Reviews

REVIEW: Batgirl #47 Revisits “The Killing Joke” AGAIN

July 22, 2020

If there’s one constant over the last ten years of Batgirl stories, it’s DC revisiting the time that Joker paralyzed Barbara Gordon. In 2011, when the New 52 launched, it did so with Barbara back behind the cowl as Batgirl, something that hadn’t been seen since 1988 in Batgirl ...

Comics, Interviews

Sarah Kuhn and Nicole Goux’s Shadow of the Batgirl: What Does it Mean to Be a Hero?

January 29, 2020

What does it mean to be a hero? In Shadow of the Batgirl, writer Sarah Kuhn and artist Nicole Goux introduce a younger audience to Cassandra Cain, a teenager who has been raised to do only one thing: kill. But when Cass realizes that this life is wrong, she escapes, finding herself in Gotham, ...

Comics, Roundtables

The Wedding Issue: Alysia Yeoh and Jo

April 12, 2019

Aside from “Who would win in a fight?” nothing gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes (and their friends) should marry. In this mini-feature, former Bride Rebecca Henely-Weiss and Bride-to-Be Kayleigh Hearn take a trip down memory lane to the most ...

Comics, Manga, Roundtables

WWACommendations: Nana, Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, The Refrigerator Monologues, and More

December 28, 2018

Happy December! Every month, WWAC contributors share the comics we’re reading purely for fun. What comics are you enjoying lately? Let us know on Twitter!

Comics, Reviews

Archie Meets Batman ’66 #2: Villainy is Afoot

August 27, 2018

Archie Meets Batman ’66 #2 Michael Moreci (Writer), Jeff Parker (Writer), Dan Parent (Artist), J. Bone (Artist), Kelly Fitzpatrick (Colours), Jack Morelli (Letters) Archie Comics and DC Entertainment 15 August, 2018 Veronica Lodge’s panicked call from Riverdale spurs Batman into action in ...

Comics, Reviews

Archie Meets Batman ’66: Colours! Conspiracies! Crossover!

July 19, 2018

Archie Meets Batman ’66 #1 Michael Moreci (Writer), Jeff Parker (Writer), Dan Parent (Artist), Kelly Fitzpatrick (Colours), Jack Morelli (Letters) Archie Comics and DC Entertainment July 18, 2018 There’s never a quiet moment in Gotham, as visitors to the 1966 World’s Science Fair ...

Batgirl

ESSAY: The Evolution of Oracle and Disability Representation

Last Week’s Episode: Monopolies and Movies and Mayhem, Oh MY!

DC PUBWATCH – October 2020 Edition

Race in DC’s Middle Grade and Young Adult Comics

REVIEW: Batgirl #47 Revisits “The Killing Joke” AGAIN

Sarah Kuhn and Nicole Goux’s Shadow of the Batgirl: What Does it Mean to Be a Hero?

The Wedding Issue: Alysia Yeoh and Jo

WWACommendations: Nana, Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, The Refrigerator Monologues, and More

Archie Meets Batman ’66 #2: Villainy is Afoot

Archie Meets Batman ’66: Colours! Conspiracies! Crossover!

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