The Hidden Fortress: No Ivy League and Legacies of Whiteness
Interrogating the complex legacies of racial injustice in Hazel Newlevant’s No Ivy League and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude.
WAUGH and On and On #5: It’s the End of the WAUGH as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
“Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. . ” as we come to the final arc of the first volume of Howard the Duck to be penned by Steve Gerber.
Harley Quinn’s Sexuality: A Tale of Three Lusts
Laura Grafton and Andew Deman examine the intersection of Harley Quinn’s three central relationships, with the Joker, Poison Ivy, and her audience.
All-Female Fanfare: Examining Marvel Fanfare #38
When it is a surprise to the editor that both stories in a comic are written and drawn by women, it takes an engaged reader to consider the actual significance.
“But We’re Out of Time”: Queer(ed) Nostalgia and The WB’s Birds of Prey
Thinking through how personal narratives also become mediated narratives that enable queer world-building through the example of The WB’s Birds of Prey.
“Jimmy Olsen—SUPER Freak!” – Disability and Superman’s Pal
How the limitations of Jimmy Olsen’s transformations limn the dynamics of superhuman embodiment.
WAUGH and On and On #4: Synecducky
Ten ways to look at Howard the Duck #24 – the part that reflects the whole, the whole that is just a part.
Brief Comic Book Reviews (January 1 to 15, 2020)
Brief reviews of comics released between January 1st and 15th, 2020 (like Miles Morales: Spider-Man #14 and Second Coming #6), plus a couple of outliers I picked up (like Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #3).
