I have strong feelings about John Constantine.
Kripke’s Supernatural Fingerprints Are All Over Amazon’s The Boys
This post contains spoilers for The Boys and the first five seasons of Supernatural. Sometimes you just watch a show because you like the showrunner. As a longtime fan of Eric Kripke, it was Kripke himself, more so than The Boys‘ source material or cast, that motivated me to watch The Boys. (Although, admittedly, I will…
Jinn Packs in a Lot in Five Episodes, But I Still Want More
Jinn, Netflix’s first Arabic language property, follows a group of high school students as they navigate the supernatural. On a school trip to Petra, Jordan, a student dies in an accident, following which strange events begin to occur around the survivors. Despite general antipathy towards extra-normal events, the students begin to accept that Jinn may…
Rose Book 1: An Investigation That Doesn’t Quite Bloom
Rose Book 1: A Double Life Émilie Alibert (writer), Cromatik Ltd (letters), Denis Lapière (writer), Valèrie Varnay (artist), Lara Vergnaud (translation) June 12, 2019 Dupuis (French), Europe Comics (English) Disclaimer: Izneo has provided WWAC with a VIP Access Pass. Since she was a child, Rose has had the ability to split herself and wander the…
The Whispering Dark #3 Review: Where Gods Fear to Tread
The Whispering Dark #3 Christofer Emgård (Writer), Tomás Aira (Artist and Colours), Mauro Mantella (Letters) Dark Horse 2 January, 2019 Chief Hannah Vance and her remaining rangers are making their way through treacherous weather and enemy-riddled territory with the help of their hostage, Erina, the young girl they spared after killing her family. Erina knows…
The Irresistible Promise of SBS’s New Supernatural Romance While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping Oh Choong-hwan (director and writer), Park Hye-ryun (writer) Lee Jong-suk, Bae Suzy, Lee Sang-yeob, Ko Sung-hee, Jung Hae-in (cast) Released September 27, 2017 (VIKI international premiere) It’s said that the faces of people we see in our dreams aren’t products of our imagination, but real faces we’ve passed. Maybe we don’t remember…
Taproot is a Sublime, Succulent, Surprise of a Comic
Taproot: A Story About a Gardener and a Ghost Keezy Young (Writer and Artist), AW’s Tom Napolitano (Letterer) Lion Forge Comics September 13, 2017 Taproot is an astoundingly beautiful book, I just have to start by saying that. It may sound hyperbolic but it’s the truth. With Taproot, Keezy Young has created something sweet, sombre, and…
Susan Wokoma Is the Best Part of Netflix’s Crazyhead
Crazyhead is a new British show that was released in October before making its way to Netflix in December. Raquel and Amy are in their early twenties and share two important things in common: 1) they can see humans who are possessed by demons and 2) they’ve been told they’re crazy because of it. The show begins with…
Love in the Laboratory: Gail Carriger’s Romancing the Inventor
Romancing the Inventor Supernatural Society #1 Gail Carriger November 1, 2016 Romancing the Inventor is the first book of the Supernatural Society, an LGBTQ+ focused novella series set in Gail Carriger’s Parasolverse. Note: A review copy was provided at no charge by the author. Imogene Hale is young(ish), more than averagely pretty, and so not interested…
A Texas Broad Reads Preacher in 2016
This past March and April, I read Preacher for the first time, which feels like comics sacrilege in 2016. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s seminal late 90s creation about a man from East Texas who is burdened with glorious purpose—or, more accurately, the spawn of an angel and a demon—is held up alongside The Watchmen…
Monstrous, Beautiful, and Bloody: Penny Dreadful #1
Penny Dreadful #1 Krysty Wilson-Cairns (writer), Louie De Matinis (illustrator), Simon Bowland (letterer), Lizzie Kaye (editor) Titan Comics May 11, 2016 (Note: This review and interview contains some spoilers for and is based on an advance copy of Penny Dreadful #1 from Titan Comics.) “Cheap sensational fiction.” That is how the original penny dreadful stories are…
Orientalism in Big Trouble in Little China
Before you read this: did you watch the Dr. Strange trailer? You should, because I’m going to compare it to Big Trouble in Little China, a movie thirty years its senior. “Why?” you ask. Because John Carpenter made BTLC with the understanding that Chinese-ness is context and not just culture, and that the mixture of…
