YA = Young Avengers: Asserting Maturity on the Threshold of Adulthood

Young Avengers provides a fun and thoughtful exploration of the contradictions inherent to the transformation from adolescence to adulthood.

Comics / DC Comics / History / Race

Digging Up Ghosts: Teen Titans’ Mal Duncan & His Token Power

Using Teen Titans #41 to think through token characters and slavery as a narrative trope.

DC Comics / Race / TV

The CW’s Black Lighting represents the split between Black respectability and radical politics in a singular figure.

Comics / Meta

Taking the occasion of our 5th anniversary to explore the re-acquiring of X-Men comics in that same time period.

Comics / Gender

Putting Professor X into the context of the powerful men who turn out to be serial abusers.

Brief reviews of comics released between June 12 and July 3, 2019, including Monstress #23, Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur #44, and Wonder Twins #5

A return to Howard the Duck after a nearly three-year hiatus from the If It WAUGHs Like a Duck series. . .

New and different, but not all-new and all-different, adaptation and change in superhero comics as narrative mutation.,

Part Four in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.

Part Three in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.

Part Two in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.

Part One of a scholarly round table exploring the intersection of sound and comics.