Willow

Experience the timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger in a beautiful new unabridged, hardcover designed and illustrated by New York Times Bestselling author and Eisner Award-winning creator David Petersen (Mouse Guard). Painstakingly illustrated over 3 years, this exquisite and lavish edition features both color and pen and ink illustrations throughout. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame to his son, The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of animal cunning and human camaraderie. Since its first publication in 1908, generations of adults and children have cherished this world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds, serving as home to the most lovable creatures in all literature—Rat, Mole, Badger, and the irrepressible Toad of Toad Hall; with his goggles, overcoat and love of fast cars. Follow these little adventurers through gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood. Direct Market Exclusive: Each hardcover will feature an exclusive tip-in plat

We’ve all seen this story before: main character gets sidetracked on a quest, offered up their heart’s desire and decide to abandon their quest in favor of the new prize that was found. Eventually, they have to shake off their new discovery in search of the original quest, and life goes on. So with that in mind, I need to hand it to Jeff Parker, Christos Gage and Brian Ching. They may be serving that up in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow Wonderland” #3, but in doing so they’ve created a situation that feels like the main character could actually and legitimately stick with instead of waving it farewell. Parker and new co-writer Gage manage this in part because of how they write the relationship between Aluwyn and Willow. The pair of them relate to one another in such a comfortable way that this doesn’t feel like the typical trap-disguised-as-honey plot. As Willow finds the strength of being in this mystical coven, it’s a scenario where you can believe that Willow would decide to st

“Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Willow Wonderland” #1 by Jeff Parker and Brian Ching follows Willow on her now-solo quest to bring magic back to Earth. The central conceit of Willow’s epic quest in “Willow Wonderland” is that magic is the source of life’s richness, both in artificial, creative endeavors (music), natural beauty (rainbows), sensory depth (flavors) and plain old happiness. This is annoyingly broad, ill-explained, philosophically lazy and contrary to what magic represented in the original seven seasons of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” However, it props up the importance of Willow’s self-appointed quest and her accompanying self-righteousness. This idea was carried over from the “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and “Angel and Faith” comics, so it’s neither Parker’s idea nor his fault. Nevertheless, “Willow Wonderland” #1 suffers from the burden of this poor concept. Unless Parker gets truly subversive with reader expectations, my guess is that Willow will return victorious and resto

DC Comics has announced that G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel) will be the new writer on the Wonder Woman ongoing series. Joining Wilson is artist Cary Nord, who recently launched The Unexpected with writer Steve Orlando for The New Age of DC Heroes. The announcement came in today’s DC All Access video. Wilson will begin her run on Wonder Woman in November, with the first story arc titled, “The Just War.” RELATED: [SPOILER] Destroys the Justice League in Two Seconds Flat “I’m delighted to be writing such an iconic character as Wonder Woman and to be working with DC once again,” Wilson said in a DC press release. “With more than 75 years of history, Wonder Woman has a wealth of backstory and drama to draw from, and I look forward to putting a spin on Diana and her supporting cast that’s both new, yet familiar. It’ll be a challenge to do her justice, but I like a challenge and can’t wait t