Howard the Duck Hates Women (<--Clickbait)

Continuing my year-long experiment to only buy comics with at least one female creator.  This week has some great comics I can buy, but some of my favorite comics I can't, and quite a few of them!

Yep:

• Coffin Hill 17 Writer: Caitlin Kittredge -- This continues to be a badass book.
• Convergence Nightwing Oracle 1 Writer: Gail Simone Art: Jan Duursema -- Thanks to the @LCSValkyries for the recommend.
• Convergence Batgirl #1 Writer: Alisa Kwitney -- Love Kwitney! Thanks to the @LCSValkyries for the recommend.
• Saga 27 Art: Fiona Staples -- Duh.
• Southern Cross 2 Writer: Becky Cloonan -- One of my fave new comics.
• The Surface 2 Colorist:Jordie Bellaire -- Still onboard with this one, and a perfect example of a book I wouldn't have found if it weren't for this experiment, and seeking out work by Bellaire
• Captain Marvel 14 Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick -- Double-duh.
• Max Ride First Flight Writer: Marguerite Bennett -- Another great example of the experiment working in my favor. Can't wait to check this out.
• Updated: Astro City 22: Originally I had this on the "nope" pile--but I was corrected by none other than Busiek himself--Wendy Broome is one of the colorists! Yay!

@feministallies Colored by Alex Sinclair and Wendy Broome. Also edited by Kristy Quinn & Jessica Chen, but you may not be counting that.
— Kurt Busiek (@KurtBusiek) April 8, 2015

Nope:

• Rebels 1 Cover: Tula Lotay   Colorist Jordie Bellaire
• This one is a special exception: I could buy it per my experiment rules, but I continue to refuse to buy comics written by Brian Wood, even when he's working with some of my favorite people in Lotay and Bellaire
• Abe Sapien 22: Continuing pain, and knowledge that I'll likely cheat and buy the trade after my experiment is over.
• Sleepy Hollow Origins 1: The show is a campy pleasure, so I'm sorry I'm missing out. 
• Astro City 022: Sigh.
• Jupiter's Circle 001 (Mark Millar)
• Nameless 003 (Grant Morrison)
• ODY-C 004 (Fraction)
• Convergence The Question 001 (Greg Rucka). Sad there are no women working on this book, since I love Montoya so much. 
• Rat Queens 010
• Darth Vader 004
• Howard the Duck 002: Twelve people working on this book. All dudes.

Avengers: Millennium -- All Dudes, All the Time

Continuing my year-long experiment to only buy comics with a woman artist or writer...

Buy Pile:

• Lady Killer #4: Joelle Jones continues to knock this one out of the park, I bet.
• Names #8: Cover: Celia Calle
• Hinterkind #17 Cover: Marguerite Sauvage 
• No Mercy #1 Writer: Alex De Campi   Art: Carla Speed McNeil  -- Love De Campi's work on the Grindhouse comics, so can't wait to see what she does with the real world.
• Dark Tower Drawing Three House Cards #2 Writer:Robin Furth -- This is definitely a guilty pleasure, seeing Furth continue to expand King's rich world. At what point to the comics eclipse the books? 

If I Can Find the Variant:

• Cluster #3 Variant Cover colorist Jordie Bellaire -- Hopefully I can find this variant, although it's becoming clear that, during this experiment, variants might not work out; ruins the flow if I can't find an ish.
• Uncanny Inhumans Variant cover by Siya Oum -- I'm new to Oum's work, but I hope I can find it!

Nope Pile:

• Hellboy And The B.P.R.D. #5: This one continues to hurt. Some of my favorite characters of all time.
• Millennium #3: I loved this show, even though I didn't watch X-Files. This one stings.
• Black Science #13: The art is just fantastic in this book--sorry I've had to give it up.
• The Dying and the Dead #2: Hickman is one of my favorite writers. I'm sure I'm missing out here.
• Nailbiter #11: I'm cheating on this one, because my partner buys it every week.
• Southern Bastards #8: I've read every ish of Scalped, so missing out on Aaron's writing is difficult.
• Kanan Last Padawan #1: I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but I've been liking the Rebels show, and the new Star Wars comics. 
• Empire of the Dead Act Three #1: Not a huge zombie fan, but this looks so fun and fucked up. Sorry I'm missing it. Also, Andrea Mutti is a guy, which took me a while to figure out. Sorry Andrea!
• Avengers Millenium 001: Comic Vine lists 17 creators for this comic, given the variants and editors. All. Men. It's like they're not even trying.