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, Cori, Andrea, and Nola share their thoughts on the cover of Faith #1 by Kevin Wada.
REVIEW: Breathing In With The Graphic Novel Juliet Takes A Breath
Originally published in January 2016, Gabby Rivera’s debut novel Juliet Takes a Breath was a comforting read that I read as a recently out queer Black person in 2016. Now, the novel has been adapted into a graphic novel by writer Gabby Rivera, illustrator Celia Moscote, colorist James Fenner, and letterer DC Hopkins. Published by…
BOOM Pubwatch: August 2020
Welcome to this month’s BOOM! Pubwatch, where I’ll be gushing about Wonder Pony, a new middle-grade comic that I loved, as well as the start of Seven Secrets #1, and the graphic memoir, Happiness Will Follow, which I have some mixed feelings about. In the news section there is some celebrating the Jenny Frison Cover…
REVIEW: Strange Skies Over East Berlin’s Terrors are Equally Human and Alien
Is there anything more terrifying than the truth? Strange Skies Over East Berlin, from Jeff Loveness, Lesandro Estherren, Patricio Delpeche, and Steve Wands, asks this question with every dread-inducing page. Following an American spy trapped within a Soviet bunker during the heights of the Cold War, Strange Skies is equal parts chilling extraterrestrial horror and…
LOUD: Maria Llovet’s New Book is a Bold Statement
Though active in the Spanish and French scenes for much longer, Maria Llovet has been establishing her name in English-language, American-published comics for the last three years. From a miniseries at Black Mask to a collab with Brian Azarrello at BOOM!, her standing is solid as a line and colour artist on men’s scripts. But…
What Fence! Didn’t Learn from Sports Manga
So, Fence!. This limited series about high school fencing, written by CS Pacat, drawn by Johanna the Mad, and published by Boom! Studios is getting a prose novel tie-in by Sarah Rees Brennan in September 2020, bringing new life to a series that ended in November 2018. But why aren’t more critics talking about it?…
Folklords #2 Takes the Easy Road
Folklords #2 follows Ansel, the fantasy comic’s human protagonist, and Archer, his elf friend, as they go out of their village and into the woods in search of the titular Folklords.
Dusty’s Kids Grow Up In WWE: NXT: Takeover
WWE: NXT: Takeover Jim Campbell (Letters); Aaron Dana, Marcus D’Alfonso, Audrey Mok, David Nakayama, Lucas Werneck, (Covers); Jake Elphick, Kendall Goode, Hyeonjin Kim, Rodrigo Lorenzo (Illustrations); Doug Garbark, Wesllei Manoel (Colors); Dennis Hopeless (Writer) BOOM!Comics April 3, 2019 NXT has been the WWE’s so-called “farm league” for only six years, but in that amount of…
In Lumberjanes #60, All The World’s A Stage…or A Sea Serpent’s Stomach
Lumberjanes #60 Aubrey Aiese (Letters): Brooklyn Allen (Pre-Order Cover); Maarta Laiho (Colors); Kat Leyh (Main Cover); AnneMarie Rogers (Art); Sharon Watters and Kat Leyh (Writing) BOOM! Studios March 20th, 2019 The Lumberjanes have made it to 60! But instead of dealing with aching backs and insurance forms, they’re putting on a play and all of…
Bells Will Ring For WWE Then. Now. Forever.
WWE Then. Now. Forever. Volume 3 Andy Belanger, Ryan Ferrier, Derek Freidlofs, Aaron Gillespie, Bill Hanstock, Tini Howard, Michael Kingston, Julian May, Kevin Panetta, Lan Pitts, Brent Schoonover, Andrew Stott (Writing); Andy Belanger, Dozerdraws, Jake Elphick, Derek Friedlofs, Kendall Goode, Hyeonjin Kim, Rodrigo Lorenzo, Carlos Magno, Michel Mulipola, Brent Schoonover, Dominike “Domino” Stanton (Art); Jim…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Back and Good
Unto each generation, a story is told— When considering a comic book, it’s pertinent to consider its target audience and who it’s marketed to or for whom it’s easy to find. For a franchised book, or an adaptation of an existing success, the question becomes more interesting along with that relevancy: Is this just for…
What Is a Pubwatch, Even?
Long ago, in the mysterious and misty past of 2017, WWAC began offering regular, coherent roundups of industry news and mini-reviews of recent publications from a variety of publishers and called them Pubwatches. Since then, our list of Pubwatches has grown drastically. In my exalted capacity as Pubwatch Editor (please note: capacity not actually exalted),…
