Although this week could not escape a touch of ignominy, positive news abounded in the comicsphere. It traveled around the globe before crash-landing in Arizona, leaving a host of announcements in its wake. (Content warning: There are links to and discussion of sexual assault, emotional abuse, and mental abuse in this week’s news under the…
Valiant Efforts: Your All-Valiant Monthly Catch-Up
Valiant! PUBWATCH! Put’em together and what do you get? You get the Valiant PUBWATCH, which is where you are now. Exactly where you need to be, my darling. We’ll get onto short reviews of everything Valiant put on the shelves in October, to catch you up should you have missed anything, but as always we…
What Is a Pubwatch, Even?
Long ago, in the mysterious and misty past of 2017, WWAC began offering regular, coherent roundups of industry news and mini-reviews of recent publications from a variety of publishers and called them Pubwatches. Since then, our list of Pubwatches has grown drastically. In my exalted capacity as Pubwatch Editor (please note: capacity not actually exalted),…
Valiant’s The Year of the Visitor
This 1994 Valiant-on-Valiant documentary has a number of joys to offer and a lot of information. One such piece is a fairly large nugget: that 1994 was “the year of The Visitor.”
Harbinger Wars 2: Should I, An Adult, Read This Superhero Summer Event?
I don’t know. Do you now or have you ever liked Marvel comics? If the answer is no, I’m probably not gonna be much help here. Valiant’s Harbinger Wars 2 is straight outta Westchester, a Mutant Registration Act battle for America over whether or not it’s OK to kill teens. It feels rude to relegate…
Bloodshot Salvation #7 Dances in the Dark
Bloodshot Salvation #7 Jeff Lemire (writer, illustrator) Valiant March 7th 2018 Ohhh hey now, Valiant is being cute again!
Previously on Comics: Cultural Change
The Prism Comics Queer Press Grant submissions period remains open until the last day of February (that’s the 28th . . . just in case). Get yourself two thousand dollars and some PR help—it’s worth a punt. Further details are at the link: go! Kelly Thompson has been secured by an exclusive agreement with Marvel, hiking…
Shadowman/Rae Sremmurd
Shadowman/Rae Sremmurd #1 Eliot Rahal (Writer), Renato Guedes (Artist) Valiant October 4, 2017 Shadowman/Rae Sremmurd #1 is an artistically pleasing, quick adventure that combines devil-dealing and soul-stealing with modern musical artists.
Faith and the Future Force Soared and Satisfied
Faith and the Future ForceIssues #1-4 Ulises Arreola (Colorist), Diego Bernard with Juan Castro (Artists), Jody Houser (Writer), Barry Kitson (Artist), Cary Nord with Brian Thies (Artists), Stephen Segovia (Artist), Dave Sharpe (Letterer) Published by Valiant July 2017 – October 2017 I’m tired of universe-wide hero team-up books. It feels like there’s a new threat to the very fabric…
Valiant Buzz: Strap in, kids. This will be a helluva ride!
In this rather large round-up, we’ll be talking all sorts of happenings that happened during the months of August, September and October for Valiant Comics. Buckle in, kids! Let’s catch up. NEW FACES In the latest addition to the expanding team at Valiant Entertainment, Charlotte Greenbaum was named Associate Editor in the midst of Valiant’s…
Previously On Comics: New Distributors, Comic-Cons, and Creative Resistance
Happy Vernal Equinox, readers! Depending on where you live, the past week brought some “interesting” weather, but hopefully those days are behind us. Now, let’s talk about what’s going on in the comics world. In adaptation news, Marvel is a launching a Darth Vader comicbook series in June. Timely, given the fact that the ending…
WWAC’s Favorite Big Press Comics of 2016
Southern Cross Becky Cloonan (Writer and Cover Artist), Andy Belanger and Lee Loughridge (Artists) Image Comics Southern Cross looked like something I would not like. For all of my love of things beginning with Star (Wars, Trek, etc.), I’m actually pretty afraid of space. And space stories where scary stuff happens? Certainly too frightening. Wrong! This is…
