Hey WWACers! It’s the first day of Passover (I’m a Jew) which means I can’t eat bread for over a week, which means I’m cranky. I’d like to say I turned to comics to ease my mood, but those can make me pretty upset too, especially when they blame tanking sales on added diversity.
Political Comics: Why We Should Take HYDRA-Magneto Seriously
This month, the news broke that Marvel’s latest event will have a series of variant covers of HYDRA-styled bad guys. Included among the lineup will be Magneto, a character whose origins as a Jewish Holocaust survivor should set him in direct opposition to the Nazi-influenced HYDRA. As we enter the cycle of discourse around why…
It’s Not Heat Vision: Why Scott Summers Always Left Me Cold
Who is Scott Summers? It’s a question that until Grant Morrison’s run on New X-Men I didn’t care to answer. Scott reminded me too much of the people who’d ignored me at school, never the bullies, but the ones complicit with their silence. The kind who see themselves as better than every other person in…
Previously on Comics: Webcomic to Netflix, March to Awards
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s pretty darn cold. I’ve been keeping out of the Chicago winter with some warm comics reading, and I encourage you to do the same! Here’s what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s just comics:
Review: Hawkeye #1 Hits the Bullseye
Hawkeye #1 Kelly Thompson (s), Leonardo Romero (p), Jordie Bellaire (c), VC’s Joe Sabino (l) Marvel Comics December 14, 2016
I Asked A Bunch of Marvel Men About Their Feminist Agendas
And only three answered. After Chelsea Cain was run off from Twitter by the baying of hounds affronted by a word (“feminist”), I decided to ask Cain’s peers, co-workers and higher-ups a question. Joelle Jones’ cover for the final issue of Mockingbird featured heroine Bobbi Morse in a t-shirt that read ASK ME ABOUT MY…
Ask Them About Their Feminist Agenda: Marvel & Mockingbird
Chelsea Cain is no newcomer to publishing — she has two series of novels under her belt, plenty of accolades, and just wrapped up a stint writing Mockingbird at Marvel. But it’s that last gig that led to an acclaimed, talented and lovely writer receiving a slew of harassment on Twitter.
Jennifer Walters is Marvel’s HULK. It’s About Time!
Jennifer Walters has been a stalwart in the Marvel Universe since her inception in 1980. She was created as a quick fix solution for Marvel, who were becoming increasingly worried that the team behind the hit TV show The Incredible Hulk might add a female version of their star, just like The Six Million Dollar…
The Vision (And How I Got Excited For New Comic Book Day Again)
Ongoing comics are a strange game, constantly getting cancelled, renewed, and rebooted. Until I began working at London’s Orbital comics, I’d had a tough time reading anything in single issue format. Then, one fateful afternoon, I picked up The Vision #1. This book (by creative team Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta, with Jordie Bellaire…
Previously On Comics: World of Wakanda, Superman’s Assets, and More.
It’s time once again to look at the headlines for the previous week’s comics news! We’re still catching up from SDCC, so bear with us as we continue to get these profiles, and interviews up for you. Definitely check out Wendy’s profile on David Mack while you wait, though. This article from Paste is a…
Book Beat: YA Author to Write A Miles Morales Novel
It’s time for book news — and there’s a ton of it. Nicola Yoon’s young adult novel, Everything Everything, is being adapted into a film that’ll be directed by Stella Meghie. They also announced that Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson would be playing the leads which caught my attention as an Amandla fan. Yoon’s debut novel follows Maddy, a…