J.H. Williams III Reveals Cover Art for New Blondie Album Creator of all things beautiful and trippy, Sandman: Overture and (formerly) Batwoman’s J.H. Williams III, made a predictably beautiful and trippy image for the cover of a new Blondie album. Also, yes, Blondie still puts out albums: a surprise to us all!
News & Things: Wolverine’s Hair is Hot Stuff
Tiny Cute Avengers Manga Introduces Japanese Kids To the Team This completely adorable Avengers story ran as a one shot in Monthly Korokoro Comic in an attempt to familiarize Japanese children with Marvel characters before the release of a new japanese series: Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers. Who else wants a copy of the re-print?…
News & Things: Welcome to 2014!
News P. Craig Russell on Murder Mysteries Interview with Russell about the new edition of Murder Mysteries, his collaboration with Neil Gaiman about the murder of an angel in heaven. Fantagraphics to Publish Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins talk about their upcoming anthology and Japan’s gay manga…
Last Minute Gift Guide 2: Stuff and things
Wait, you’re STILL shopping? Girl, I thought we had you covered with that last round of recommendations. Oh, you’re looking for some seeing-you-after-Christmas-so-I-can-be-horrendously-late gifts! Well then. We’ve got you covered with these online buys. Like our last roundup of cool things, we’ve held back on posting prices, due to the internationality of our readership (and…
Thought Bubble: TB Leeds to the future (har har)
An intro to, and con diary of, Thought Bubble comics convention, Leeds, 2013
Friday Poll: The Mayor Toronto Deserves
In not so shocking news, the winner of last week’s Wonder Wouldn’t poll was Frank Miller. Out of our way, sperm bank! He’s the person you’d least like to see attached to a Wonder Woman movie in any way shape or form. And with good reason. Here’s Wonder Woman from Frank Miller’s carnival of horrors, All Star…
Summer Movie Roundtable: Part two
Our Megan Byrd, Mai Pucik, and Ashley Schmuecker, along with guest commentators/hecklers Shannon Rahe and Vicki Essex joined me to talk about summer movies. In this part we discuss Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, Wolverine, and the state of the comic book movie. You can find part one here. *** We haven’t talked at all about…
Review: The Wolverine, The Softer Side of Awesome
I’m going to say it. The Wolverine was my favorite X-men movie thus far (sorry, X-men First Class). Those who enjoyed the campy, super-power driven earlier movies might be disappointed though. The movie took its time, and took itself very seriously. That’s probably best for a movie that features atomic bombs and suicide.
News & Things: News of Future Past
Welcome back to News & Things. This is Kayleigh, your intrepid reporter for the week, and I’m thrilled to be joining the WWAC team. Enjoy, won’t you?
State of Marvel Roundtable–Part One
Marvel romance, mental health, and motherhood. Megan Purdy Bendis is off Avengers! Marvel’s partnering with Disney-owned Hyperion to put out romance novels! Miles Morales is super popular! It’s a (brand new) day! Maybe. With Captain Marvel, Fearless Defenders, the all female X-Men, and the upcoming She-Hulk and Rogue romance novels, Marvel is putting its female…
