Aside from “Who would win in a fight?”, no debate gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should marry. In this special revival of their popular column, Rebecca Henely-Weiss and Kayleigh Hearn take a trip to today’s spinner racks and look at the most recent times comic companies took…
Fanart is a Giant Group Hug: An Interview with Fanartist Vylla
Here at WWAC, we love fanart. So when news reached us that some fanart of Kate Bishop had been mistaken by an actual Marvel artist as official Kate Bishop Hawkeye uniform, we had to know more. I reached out to the fanartist in question, the incredible Vylla, (Find her on social media here and her…
London Super Comic Con Interview – Kieron Gillen
The last of my LSCC interviews is with Kieron Gillen: comics playlist compiler, prolific Tweeter, author of Über, Young Avengers, the Phonogram series, Three, that run of Journey into Mystery, the upcoming The Wicked and the Divine (and much more), and, of course, 2014 GLAAD award recipient (for Young Avengers). I had originally intended to conduct…
News & Things: Neo-Tokyo is About to E*X*P*L*O*D*E
News New X-Men: Days of Future Past Clip The new scene shows Kitty Pryde and the future X-Men—Blink, Bishop, Iceman, Sunspot, Warpath, and Colossus—preparing for a Sentinel attack. Happy Birthday Katsuhiro Otomo! Otomo, the Japanese manga artist and anime director best known for his iconic work on AKIRA, is 60 today. Young Avengers wins GLAAD…
Thought Bubble: TB Leeds to the future (har har)
An intro to, and con diary of, Thought Bubble comics convention, Leeds, 2013
News & Things: Anyone else approaching comic book movie exhaustion?
News Don Cheadle Will be in the Avengers Sequel In an interview with USA Today, Cheadle confirmed that he would be appearing in Age of Ultron. No word yet on Falcon. (He got short shrift in that Winter Soldier trailer, I tell you. Short shrift). Janice Valleau Winkleman / Drew for Archie comics, painted for…
News & Things: Mad Science Throwdown
Welcome back to News & Things! Tonight we have the Young Avengers season finale, Rachel Maddow on March, Princess Bubblegum vs. Frankenstein, and more! Read of the Week The Dissolve talks about what Marvel’s shared universe means for movies: “But the longer the MCU continues, the more I’m struck by the sameness of all the…