Welcome to Cover Girls. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Kate Tanski, Louis Skye, Kat Overland, Anna Peppard, Wendy Browne, and Kayleigh Hearn shake it up a little and share their thoughts on a Cover Guy:…
Sequential Sartorial: Hellfire Gala 2022 Reveals, Russell Dauterman Edition
Marvel has officially announced the framing of the 2022 Hellfire Gala, confirming earlier promises it would become a regular event. It is, however, significantly scaled back on a publishing front this year. Instead of a multi-issue crossover event, as we got last year, this year’s Gala is a single one-shot. That certainly hasn’t stopped Marvel…
REVIEW: Giant-Size X-Men: Thunderbird #1 – Finally!
In a recent Indigenous speaker series I attended, Dr. Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair spoke about Indigenous literature and I was excited to see John Proudstar, aka Thunderbird, included in his slides. Unfortunately, the X-Man was included as an example of how Indigenous people have been poorly depicted over the years, largely because it is not Indigenous…
REVIEW: X-Men Red #1 – Life on Mars?
Storm versus Storm, disco revival, an austere castle, a name change — this first issue of X-Men Red has it all. Most importantly, it has a strong theme, with this issue examining the power and malleability of names, and how those names create identites. Names for people, their titles, and the names we give things…
REVIEW: Immortal X-Men #1 Shows the Sinister Power of an Unreliable Narrator
There’s been no small amount of curiosity about the next stage of Krakoa after the departure of Jonathan Hickman from the line. With Immortal X-Men, it’s safe to say that the future is…Sinister.
REVIEW: X-Men #8 – He Blinded Me with Science!
Set sail aboard the cruise ship of the damned – for science! Have a psychic heart-to-heart with your true love as you both fight rage zombies – for science! Punch MODOK in the face – for science!
REVIEW: X Lives of Wolverine #1 Arrives Kicking and Scheming
It’s here, it’s here! A Wolverine event that will hopefully neatly tie up the storylines that Benjamin Percy has been weaving throughout X-Force (2019) and Wolverine (2019) these past few years. But if you haven’t been reading along, don’t worry — it’s not so complex that you can’t just pick up this issue and jump…
REVIEW: Everything’s Coming Up Resurrection in Trial of Magneto #5
Scarlet Witch’s redemption arc! Magneto’s broody guilt! Millions of souls who died before mutantkind learned how to save work in progress! It’s all resolved as this miniseries wraps up.
REVIEW: Inferno #3 – Disarmed and Dangerous
The Jonathan Hickman era of the X-Men began with a dream. A dream of Krakoa, a home for all mutants. A dream of a future without Sentinels or post-human despots, a world where mutants finally win. In House of X #2, Moira vowed in the womb that in her tenth life, she and Charles Xavier…
REVIEW: X-Men #5 – The Great Dane
“Fearless” is an apt title for any story arc in the Reign of X era, but for Gerry Duggan’s X-Men, it fits like an elbow-length yellow glove. The X-Men have terraformed Mars, built an island nation for mutantkind, and conquered death itself. Hell, in the last issue, they defeated a demon named Nightmare! Reenergized and…