The Comics Staple - A Comics News Zine A brand-new, monthly zine featuring news, reviews, and interviews for comics fans who want to stay in the loop. Edited by Tiffany Babb

I am SO excited to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for The Comics Staple, a monthly zine about comics, is live. Go make your pledges now!

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Gender to Watch Out For: Stuart and Trans Lesbianism in Alison Bechdel's Classic Strip - WWAC % Revisiting Dykes to Watch Out For brings complicated feelings about closeted transgender eggs and lesbian reactions to them.

Gathering my writing currently published in one place, to pin.

This is a few years old & I think, after reading more transfeminine readings and transfeminist critiques, I definitely would write it a bit differently

thanks to @wwacomics.bsky.social & @dogunderwater.bsky.social's guidance on this

The SPX Table Lottery is live and open until March 15th! We wanna see you there so don’t forget to fill out the form below.

thank you for an excuse to pull this @nightxade.bsky.social review out of the archives

For Patrons: Nights of the Public Domain Dead Subscribers to my Patreon can now read a new essay: Nights of the Public Domain Dead. I was feeling nostalgic about my 29-part essay series on the legacy of Night off the Living Dead, which only we…

Are you a subscriber to my Patreon? If so, you can now read a new article about twenty-first century Night of the Living Dead remakes! (I was feeling nostalgic about the @wwacomics.bsky.social series I wrote on the topic)
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The cover for SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1 by Lauren Knight

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Go back SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1! The 1st issue of a sapphic vampire noir miniseries from an increduble creative team. Follow disgraced PI Corsica Smith as she drags herself from rock bottom into a deadly conspiracy with her ex-love at the center

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ESSAY: Alices: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland - WWAC % This year marks the 160th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was originally published in 1865.

Each essay is at least 2k words, making the series as a whole about as long as Alice in Wonderland itself.
Here's the first part, which appeared on @wwacomics.bsky.social before the site's hiatus:
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Alices: Sylvie and Bruno in Wonderland This is the last in a twelve-part essay series examining adaptations, reworkings and reinterpretations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The rest of the serie…

Over the course of the year, I've been writing a monthly essay series on Alice in Wonderland and its various reworkings.
In the final instalment, live today, I look at Lewis Carroll's largely-forgotten attempt to create a new Wonderland in "Sylvie and Bruno":
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Okay, But Does Batman Fuck? WWAC's Definitive Take - WWAC % Zack Snyder is absolutely certain that Batman kills people, but we at WWAC have a more important question in mind: Does Batman Fuck?

Heard it was Batman Day womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2019/03/okay...

REVIEW: Big Jim and the White Boy Gives an American Classic the Political Reimagining it Needs - WWAC % Big Jim and the White Boy reimagines the Mark Twain classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by centering the runaway slave, Jim.

I re-read Big Jim and the White Boy this morning for a chapter on narrative that I'm writing. An excellent comic, very well reviewed here by @wwacomics.bsky.social
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Happy #Letterer Appreciation Day! If you want to check out fantastic letterers here on bluesky, here's a starter pack!

Also, if you are a letterer who wishes to be included in this pack, or an aspiring letterer who would like a portfolio review, please message me any time.

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How To Watch The Wolverine Movies In Order - Looper Confused about where to start watching Hugh Jackman's Wolverine? This list should give you the best idea of how to view his movies.

Okay, so you want to start watching all 10 (!) movies Wolverine's appeared in, where do you start? X-MEN (2000)? One of the prequels? Is the guy in DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE the same Wolverine, anyway? I break it allllll down for you on Looper:

Alices: Jonathan Miller in Wonderland This is the eighth in a twelve-part essay series examining adaptations, reworkings and reinterpretations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The rest of the ser…

It's time for the eighth instalment of my monthly Alice in Wonderland essay series, which started at @wwacomics.bsky.social before its hiatus!
This month, I'm looking at Jonathan Miller's 1966 BBC adaptation.
PLUS! Grant Morrison! Fred and Barney! Sunspots!
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Happy to announce that my column Queerly Nerdy has a new home at Pop Heist. Thanks editor @brettwhite.bsky.social for giving it new life! Excited to geek out on a monthly basis with y'all!

SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.

SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con

If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.

Every Marvel TV Show of the MCU Era, Ranked Some of them are even pretty good.

Added Ironheart to the rankings over at @vulture.com! Truly I have so much more to say about this show than I can fit into a ranked listing. It's...well, it's sure something.

Shelfdust Presents: Sailor Moon #1 with Kayleigh Hearn In 2019 Shelfdust asked over a hundred comic book critics, podcasters, vloggers and commentators to pick their personal, subjective favourite ‘first’ comic book issues of all time. From their choic…

Happy Birthday, Usagi Tsukino! Here’s a blast from the past: my appearance on the Shelfdust Presents podcast talking about the very first manga chapter of SAILOR MOON!

Alices: James R. Kincaid in Wonderland This is the sixth in a twelve-part essay series examining adaptations, reworkings and reinterpretations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The rest of the seri…

It's the latest instalment of my year-long essay series on Alice in Wonderland (which started at @wwacomics.bsky.social and migrated to my own blog while that site's on hiatus). This time, I'm digging up the rather dated cultural analysis of James R. Kincaid...
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REVIEW: Closing the Gaps in Queer Storytelling in Stone Fruit by Lee Lai - WWAC % Stone Fruit by Lee Lai is an earnest and painfully honest story that follows two women as they navigate the aftermath of a queer romance.

@kathrynthehuman.bsky.social wrote a lovely review of the Lee Lai's excellent Stone Fruit for @wwacomics.bsky.social a few years ago, if you're curious!

Alices: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland This year marks the 160th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was originally published in 1865. Very few works of English-language children’s literatu…

Here's the first post in the series (written for @wwacomics.bsky.social before that site went on hiatus):
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REVIEW: Dracula, Motherf**ker! is a Technicolor Terror - WWAC % Dracula has risen from the grave in 1974 Los Angeles in Dracula Motherf**ker!, a colorfully lurid new graphic novel from Image Comics.

Happy Dracula Day! Here's one from the @wwacomics.bsky.social archives: my review of DRACULA, MOTHERF**KER! by Erica Henderson and Alex de Campi!

Alices: Jan Švankmajer in Wonderland This is the third in a twelve-part series of essays examining adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The rest of the series can be found here. The Alice books are strange. Much of t…

And in the third, I revisited the Jan Svankmajer film to find out why Alice fascinated the surrealists:
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Take My Revolution: Kayleigh Hearn Reviews The Rose of Versailles vol. 1 - SOLRAD Guest contributor Kayleigh Hearn reviews the long-awaited first volume of THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES, published in 2020 by Udon Entertainment.

The new ROSE OF VERSAILLES anime movie is now streaming on Netflix! Want to know more about this classic series? Check out my review of the first manga omnibus for @solrad.bsky.social!

Alices: Walt Disney in Wonderland This is the second in a twelve-part series of essays examining adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The rest of the series can be found here. Morton N. Cohen’s biography of Lewis …

The second was about the Disney cartoon:
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Alices: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland This year marks the 160th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was originally published in 1865. Very few works of English-language children’s literatu…

This is the fourth part of a monthly series on adaptations and reworkings of Alice in Wonderland. Here's the first:
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Alices: Dennis Potter in Wonderland This is the fourth in a twelve-part essay series examining adaptations and reworkings of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The rest of the series can be found here. No doubt spurred by the po…

On my blog, I'm looking at the two serious attempts at a Lewis Carroll biopic -- which were both written by Dennis Potter.
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Winter 2025 | 5 New Books From Fieldmouse Press Fieldmouse Press needs your help to publish five beautiful new books!

Today is the LAST DAY you can pre-order my book and support the @fieldmousepress.bsky.social campaign! Please help us cross the finish line, we are 80% funded~ Shares, likes, comments etc. are very very appreciated! <3
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Every Marvel Post-Credits Scene That Hasn't Paid Off - Looper The MCU is known for post-credits scenes that hint at adventures to come. But you might be surprised at how many of those have gone nowhere.

Catching the post-credits teasers used to be an essential part of the MCU viewing experience — when, exactly, did they stop mattering? For Looper I wrote about every MCU post-credit scene that hasn’t paid off (yet), from the missing Karl Mordo to the Ebony Blade and (sigh) Pip the Troll:

Magic From The Margins: VAST CERULEAN SEA is a sweet sapphic romance between a nonbinary mermaid and human girl For the twelfth edition of Magic From The Margins, Penn explores Vast Cerulean Sea, a romance between a nonbinary mermaid and a human girl.

For my newest column over at @kcomicsbeat.bsky.social , I reviewed the sweet sapphic mermaid romance comic Vast Cerulean Sea kcomicsbeat.com/2025/04/18/v...

Spotlight on Nadia Shammas - WWAC % Recently announced as the writer of a Ms. Marvel graphic novel, Nadia Shammas might new to some, but she isn’t new to comics.

It's Arab American Heritage Month, so here's a few @wwacomics.bsky.social pieces about Arab rep in comics, starting with "Spotlight on Nadia Shammas"

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