The tall, chiseled man takes his love into his arms: “Toni—I love you so much! Do you think you can marry a bum who’s gone straight?” The woman—red-lipped, her jet black hair cascading over her shoulders, swoons, “Of course I’ll marry you—you sweet wonderful palooka!” This is the world of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s…
Review–Superman: Lois Lane One Shot
Superman: Lois Lane Marguerite Bennet Emanuela Lupachina, Megan Ketrick, Ig Guara, Diogenes Neves The first thing I noticed about this one shot was the majority female storytelling team. The second thing I noticed was the shining filament of connectivity with previous versions of Lois Lane. Even though this is The New 52! (complete with exclamation…
Short & Sweet: That Comic Game
It’s an all Wendy, all game-adaptations edition of Short & Sweet! We(ndy) reviews Tomb Raider #1 and Mass Effect: Foundation #8.
Buffy, Buffy Comics, adaptations & portraiture: roundtable!
We get previews and alerts and review pdfs in our inboxes, and we don’t go full-interest on every one. (This is behind the scenes stuff, hold tight.) We don’t discuss everything, either, not by a long way; usually we each take a hold of what looks interesting to us, and occasionally one of our…
Short & Sweet: Wolf Spider Bikini Bingo
Wolves, spiders, wolf-spiders, and more! This week we review Batwoman, Red Sonja, Adventure Time, Loki: Ragnarok and Roll and SPOOKS.
Review: Velvet #1-3
“What if Miss Moneypenny was actually more dangerous than James Bond and all of his colleagues together?”
Review: Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
Woman Rebel: The Maragret Sanger Story Story and Art by Peter Bagge Drawn and Quarterly Despite my interest in feminist history and the reputation of Peter Bagge, I considered Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story one of my riskier buys when I picked it up at Bethesda, Md.’s Small Press Expo late last year. While…
Any Way We Look At It, We’re Right: She-Hulk #1
Jamie and Iyy team up to bring you their dueling (or not so dueling) viewpoints on the all new She-Hulk #1!
Short & Sweet: Liars, Con Men, and Spies
A new Whedonverse comic. A comic by a Saturday Night Live comic (comedian? comic). New Saga! This week Kristi, Carolina, and Brenda review The Illegitimates, Saga, and Serenity: Leaves On the Wind.
Who Do You Think You Are? Teen girl comics of extreme quality
I wanna tell you about a book I really like. It’s going to sound like the opposite of that to start with. I think that the cover to this volume is too artistically executed. I think it’s so good that it does the story a disservice.
Short & Sweet
Welcome to a Marvel-centric edition of Short and Sweet (or Sour), looking back at Jason Aaron’s new X-title, Magneto’s lead-up to his new on-going, the impending return of the Amazing Spider-Man, and Black Widow’s new #1. It’s mutants, spider-men, Russian spies, and women writing about comics!
Review: Ms. Marvel #1
Ms. Marvel #1 Written by G. Willow Wilson Art by Adrian Alphona & Ian Herring Marvel Comics Cover: Adrian Alphona The new Ms. Marvel being an American-born Pakistani girl from Jersey City made headlines all over the net, the blogosphere, and here at WWAC. The first issue is out--does it live up to the hype?...