Tag: Critique

teen titans, donna troy, thong, DC, 2009

Sequential Sartorial: Why Does Fashion Matter In Comics?

Costuming is important in art. Clothing is more immediately communicative than body language, and art communicates. For example, Lana Del Rey’s video for her 2012 release “National Anthem.” It’s all Jackie & JFK pastiche. Towards the very end, there’s that last ride recreated, and Jackie/Lana has on the pink suit. WRONG. She wears goldenrod. Her hat…

Paul Gauguin, Nevermore (Nikad više), 1897

Concrete Park and Art: Puryear Purloins Painters’ Perfections

It was the cover that caught me. Concrete Park: You Send Me Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander Dark Horse Comics October 1st, 2014 Talking to Bleeding Cool about his “artist’s journey,” Tony Puryear, illustrator and co-writer of Concrete Park, said: I majored in art at Brown [University], loving Gauguin but doing very indulgent, Morris Louis-inspired color field paintings….

Scariest Movie of My Life: Alien

Okay, this post title is deceptive. See, I’ve never actually seen Alien, but I can confidently declare it the “scariest movie of my life.” You may find this surprising. After all, Alien is often heralded as one of the more feminist sci-fi/horror flicks out there, and we at WWAC are certainly not abashed about feminism….

transformers, http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2012/12/18/transformers-comic-book-continuity/

Yet More Violence: Michael Bay’s Transformers Against IDW’s Transformers

This post contains spoilers for Transformers: Punishment; Age of Extinction; Windblade; Dark Cybertron; More than Meets the Eye; Robots in Disguise; and Last Stand of the Wreckers. The Transformer movies, the best selling interpretation of the brand, are simultaneously the most ideologically opposed to the stories of the IDW comic book continuity and the most racist,…

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