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Fat Positivity in Comics: What I Need From Faith

December 21, 2015

There’s a temptation, when a marginalized group is getting representation for the first time, to say nothing but good things. Those who are critical are accused of not being supportive or overly critical (as we recently saw with Albert Ching’s piece on why he doesn’t want an ...

Essays

Jamie’s Guide To Less Stressful Holidays

November 30, 2015

Listen… Do you hear what I hear? The distant sleigh bells coming ever closer… the hoofbeats of reindeer… The inexorably shambling footfalls of shopping mobs… It can only mean one thing. They’re coming. They’re coming! They’re almost here! Are you ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Faith in Representation: Valiant Efforts

November 19, 2015

Editor’s note: This is the first of what we hope will be several pieces on Valiant Comics’ new(ish) heroine Faith, aka Zephyr, whose solo miniseries will begin in January 2016. Do you have a perspective on Faith, a yearning to cover her series, or an interest in discovering this ...

Roundtables

The Story of Our Tits: A Roundtable About Breasts

October 9, 2015

Breasts! A surprisingly controversial topic for appendages that occur on many humans. In a recent discussion on how to discuss breast and bra size, we realized that this topic really needed to be discussed out in the open, much like our previous discussions on body hair. We at WWAC are always ...

Opinion

Can’t We Just Call It The Miss Piggy Show: A Review of The Muppets

September 23, 2015

Have you heard? The Muppets are back. Again. This time they are coming to you during primetime, and competing with shows such as NCIS and Scream Queens. But this isn’t The Muppets Show variety-sketch format of olden days (by olden, I mean 1970s to 1980s). This version of The Muppets will take ...

Opinion

Stay Quiet: The Staged Body of Phantom Pain’s Sniper

September 3, 2015

Spoilers, alright? Quiet is the single woman combatant in the list of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain‘s primary characters. Men outnumber women nine to one in this list, at time of writing, if personality-imprinted AIs count as people (nine to three if not). Other than Paz, the tiny ...

Opinion

Lara Croft, Ledge Hanger: However Much She Weighs, She Can Lift It

September 2, 2015

I like Lara Croft. I have always liked Lara Croft. The Lara Croft that I understand—which is not always the Lara Croft described by her production companies, or her fans, or commentators. I look at Lara Croft and see: a woman in her thirties of independent means who does what she most wants to: ...

Cosplay, Interviews

“Just go out there and do it!” – An Interview with Cosplayer Briana Lawrence

July 13, 2015

Our third piece in our summer cosplay series is an interview with cosplayer Briana Lawrence. Briana has cosplayed Princess Peach, Tiana from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, Wonder Woman, and many more. She has been a continuous inspiration to the cosplay community since she shot to ...

Size Discrimination

Fat Positivity in Comics: What I Need From Faith

Jamie’s Guide To Less Stressful Holidays

Faith in Representation: Valiant Efforts

The Story of Our Tits: A Roundtable About Breasts

Can’t We Just Call It The Miss Piggy Show: A Review of The Muppets

Stay Quiet: The Staged Body of Phantom Pain’s Sniper

Lara Croft, Ledge Hanger: However Much She Weighs, She Can Lift It

“Just go out there and do it!” – An Interview with Cosplayer Briana Lawrence

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