The Future of Black Queer Characters in Comics Is Joyful
“I knew that was going to be a hell of a risk to take for the first big thing that I have ever done,” Williams tells WIRED. She wasn’t sure…
The Creators of ‘Westworld’ Built a William Gibson Dystopia
Right now, I’m so interested in architecture and fashion and design from the standpoint of new technologies, like 3D printing, and new concerns like environmental conservatism and how to be…
‘Best of 2000 AD’ Proves Why the Comics Are Classic
At first glance, even the name feels ambitious: Best of 2000 AD. How can anything, even a six-volume collection of anthologies running more than 200 pages each, live up to…
‘Ms. Marvel’ Ended Up Being the Best Thing on Disney+ This Year
Last week, without much fanfare (or at least not as much as one would hope), the best Marvel show of the year ended its run on Disney+. It featured, of…
After ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,’ Read These 5 Comics
Sure, last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home gave audiences a bit of a primer on multiverse-hopping superhero shenanigans, but truly nothing could have prepared them for Doctor Strange in the…
Movies Need to Stop Using Historical Atrocities for Pathos
A year before Beasts, Diana ran through No Man’s Land in Wonder Woman, deflecting bullets with her indestructible bracelets (somehow, no one bothered to fire at her bare thighs). This…
Chloé Zhao Upends the Marvel Formula With ‘Eternals’
This time around, though, there’s no infinity-sized punchfest on the horizon. Without an Endgame endgame, Marvel’s filmmakers have fewer limits and more paths they can take. Each movie can be…
He Charted Marvel’s Massive Story—and Revealed an Epic
A longtime comics reader gets good at dealing with different versions of time. The image in any individual comic panel might capture an infinitesimal slice of an instant, a picture…
‘Y: The Last Man’ Isn’t About Politics—It’s About Survival
At its core, Y: The Last Man is about surviving trauma. Set in a society trying to rebuild itself after a mysterious plague killed every mammal with a Y chromosome…
The Best Made-Up Worlds Are Made Up of Real Parts
At Disneyland, though, most of the weird historical details are also made up. In Disney parlance, topic-delimited sections of theme parks are called “lands” (like Tomorrowland), and the new one…