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Archie Comics Pubwatch: February 2021

February 9, 2021

Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of February! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock ‘lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, a passel of new variant covers are on the horizon, South Side Serpent ...

Comics, Pubwatch, Reviews

Archie Pubwatch: November 2020

November 10, 2020

Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of November! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, two new digests are announced, along with start dates for The Chilling ...

Comics, News, Profiles & Primers

Treasures in the Vault: the Women In Front Covers Initiative

March 1, 2018

If you don’t know about it already, Vault Comics is an up and coming indie comics publisher that Women Write About Comics has covered several times. Vault Comics, or Vault, is a privately owned independent comics publisher founded in 2016 by two ambitious and enthusiastic brothers, Damian and ...

Comics, Profiles & Primers

Variant Covers 101

September 6, 2017

Variant covers! Those exciting, colourful often “rare” comic book covers that we all love (to hate). But what are variant covers? Why do they exist? Why does your local comic shop not have the one by your absolute favourite artist? And what does their existence mean in the greater ...

Comics, Essays

The Value of Variant covers In The Wicked + The Divine

May 15, 2017

Critics have referred to variant covers as one of the scourges of the direct market comics industry, and they may have a point. Variant covers became popular in the 1990s when comics publishers sold them to speculators in order to increase sales numbers. Eventually, when the fad of buying ...

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Archie Comics Pubwatch: February 2021

Archie Pubwatch: November 2020

Treasures in the Vault: the Women In Front Covers Initiative

Variant Covers 101

The Value of Variant covers In The Wicked + The Divine

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