It’s 2020. It’s July and there is still a global pandemic. Not that Hollywood that bothered anymore. After a couple of months of COVID-impacted news we’re back to a lot of renewals, announcements, and plenty of things to be both overjoyed and annoyed about. So without further ado please get comfortable and enjoy this entry…
The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 11: Urban Fantasies
The period following the publication of Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire saw vampire fiction entrench itself not as a subgenre of horror, but as a substantial body of fiction in its own right. Author David J. Schow would look back on this state of affairs in his 2018 collection DJStories: You know how zombie-flavoured…
Serenity When? Firefly: The Unification War Part One
Firefly: The Unification War Part One Jim Campbell (letterer), Marcello Costa (colorist), Dan McDaid (artist), Greg Pak (writer), Joss Whedon (creator) BOOM! Studios April 24, 2019 Apparently, I’m not quite over my crush on Firefly, despite my utter disappointment with Shepherd’s backstory, and my general disappointment that has come from growing up and becoming aware…
Giles #1: The Earth is Doomed
Giles #1 Joss Whedon and Erika Alexander (writers), Jon Lam (artist), Dan Jackson (colorist), Steve Morris (cover artist) Dark Horse February 2018 Giles is one of my favorite characters in all of the lovable Buffyverse, but the new mystery mini-series Giles is rubbing me the wrong way. I was so looking forward to it, too.
Backlight: Your Movie and TV News Roundup
Whew it’s been…a week. Joss Whedon, Hypocrite Preaching Feminist Ideals On Sunday Kai Cole, the ex-wife of Joss Whedon, wrote a scalding essay about Whedon’s multiple affairs with both fans and actresses. “I now see how he used his relationship with me as a shield, both during and after our marriage, so no one would…
Submissions Open for “We Told You”, a Joss Whedon Zine
Bleating Heart Press is making a zine! We Told You is a 50-page zine about the problematic work and activism of writer, director and producer, Joss Whedon. When Whedon’s ex-wife Kai Cole wrote about the breakdown of their marriage, dozens of think pieces were published examining his most recent works and the too common trend…
Previously On Comics: Whedon, Boy Bye
In with a bang: Joss Whedon, whose widely read Astonishing X-Men run featured the small, supernaturally lethal Kitty Pryde inexplicably reuniting with the giant, super-strong ex who broke her heart twice–first by infidelity and then by entitled violence against her new lover–turns out to be a gaslighting cheater who engaged in inappropriate relationships with “needy”…
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.
Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman
Comic book fans have another reason to celebrate this holiday season, because Gal Dacot has been cast as Wonder Woman in Zack Snyder’s still-untitled Man of Steel sequel. Gadot, 28, is known for her performances in the Fast & Furious franchise, and though little is known yet of what role Wonder Woman will play in the film,…
News & Things: Feminism(s)
Promise you’ll come back? Go read this short comic from Kate Beaton on border guards and breaking up. And then come back. Oh hey. News Black Female Voices: bell hooks & Melissa Harris-Perry Melissa Harris-Perry and bell hooks sit down to discuss black feminism, then and now and going forward. Why Video Games Succeeded Where…
Wonder Woman Movies You Just Wouldn’t
The winner of last week’s poll is… the inimitable Ellen Ripley! That’s right WWAC readers, your final-final girl is she. Ripley blew away the competition, but to be fair, I disqualified Sarah Connor (on the basis of her role shifting through the Terminator series), so it might not have been a clean fight. Recount? Sorry, what’s…
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: So far I hate it
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. opens with a soft-toned, unimpassioned voiceover: o brave new world, that has such super-people and super-agents in it. (No exclamation mark). It moves from there to a series of familiar situations, peopled with familiar characters. The sassy hacker. The loner super spy. The down on his luck dad-turned-hero. The tough girl agent…