I write this on what is the traditional land of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nations. I was introduced to comic books by my father and brother. Comic books are a traditionally male-dominated sphere and women trying to enter into this sphere experience misogyny, gate-keeping, bias and gendered microaggressions; I know this because I…
Pretty Deadly, Pretty Cautious
I have loved Pretty Deadly since I first heard about it. The title, the creators, and the ideas fit everything I wanted from a new creator-owned series in 2014. And it has delivered. The Shrike, The Bear, and The Rat are awesome tales, combining the best parts of comics as a storytelling media. A wonderful…
DC PUBWATCH: SDCC and July Edition
I spent last weekend in San Diego, attending as many DC-relevant panels as I could to gather information for you, dear readers. I was also invited to attend the DC Press Breakfasts, one of which turned into a cult initiation, but they gave me a snazzy robe, so all hail Tom King!
The Castle Offers Fictions Within Fictions
If you’re going to read a comic co-written by Brian Michael Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick and edited by Sana Amanat, you probably want them all to be pretending to adapt a novel written by a fictional character from a television show. Right? Isn’t that what people want? That’s what happened in 2011, when Marvel…
Deconstructing Pretty Deadly: Sissy, the Vulture
I’m the type of person who likes to analyze the things I love. One of those things is Pretty Deadly written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, drawn by Emma Rios, colored by Jordie Bellaire, and lettered by Clayton Cowles. It is probably one of my favorite comics ever (and I have the tattoo to prove it)!…
News & Things: Who Watches The Watcher…Or Whatever
News Marvel’s “Original Sin” Teasers Ask The Big Questions Marvel’s latest event, Original Sin, deals with the death of the Marvel U’s resident creeper/giant weird baby person, The Watcher (just kiddin’, love ya, Big U!) and its subsequent fallout. This event’s been getting a crazy amount of hype and actually looks to be pretty interesting — click…
Awesome Awards: Winners!
Voting has concluded and the results are in–here are your winners . Remember, the 2013 Awesome Awards were nominated and voted by you. And you guys have good taste. Cartoonist — Noelle Stevenson Creator of Nimona and the upcoming Lumberjanes, you can find some of her other comics here.
News & Things: A Space Odyssey
Read of the Week The Dissolve’s Noel Murray examines Jack Kirby’s 1976 adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a comic where “two sorts of genius collided:” “There’s a stream-of-consciousness quality to Kirby’s storytelling. This is a man who once created an entire comics series for DC—one of his best, Kamandi: The Last Boy On…
Thought Bubble: TB Leeds to the future (har har)
An intro to, and con diary of, Thought Bubble comics convention, Leeds, 2013
Short and Sweet (or Sour): The Frights Live On
Halloween may have come and gone but Women Write About Comics isn’t ready to let the season die (see what I did there?). Featuring tales to make you cringe and a second opinion of Pretty Deadly #1, welcome to the latest Short and Sweet (or Sour). Let’s dive in head first into the madness, shall we?…
I Am Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel #17 Marvel Kelly Sue DeConnick, Filipe Andrade, Jordie Bellaire In the spirit of full disclosure, I had sort of fallen off the Captain Marvel bandwagon in recent months. Not because it’s not a brilliant book, because Kelly Sue DeConnick writes the best damn Carol Danvers that I’ve ever read. Not because it’s not…
Short and Sweet (or Sour): Time Travel, TV, and Monsters
Welcome to another exciting episode of Short and Sweet (or Sour). This week’s comics take us back and forth through time and explore how successful (or not successful, as the case may be) Dark Horse has been using classic creatures, like vampires and Frankenstein’s monster, in their books. We’re all over the place but don’t…