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Yearly Archives: 2014

Days of Future Then: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part One of Two)

This is Part One of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past,” which originally appeared in X-Men issues #141 and #142.

20 May 2014 in Marvel Comics.

Reviews in Brief (4/16 to 5/14 – 2014)

Brief reviews of: Captain Marvel #3 | All-New Ghost Rider #3 | Ms Marvel #3 | Mind MGMT #21 | Silver Surfer #2 | Amazing Spider-Man #1.1 | The Star Wars #7 Superior Spider-Man #31 | Thor: God of Thunder #21

14 May 2014 in Comics, Review.

The Who’s “I’m a Boy” as Transgender Anthem

Gender identity is over-determined.

29 April 2014 in Gender, Music, Queer.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier as Liberal Fantasy – A Review

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is part of the ideological state apparatus

22 April 2014 in Film, Politics, Review.

XX-Men: The Failures of Brian Wood’s All-Woman X-Team

X-Men’s record of including women is still only good in relation to the rest of superhero comics.

15 April 2014 in Gender, Marvel Comics, Review.

Reviews in Brief (3/19 to 4/09 – 2014)

Brief reviews of: Black Widow #1 | Captain Marvel #2 | All-New Ghost Rider #1 | Superior Foes of Spider-Man #10 | Superior Foes of Spider-Man #11 | Superior Spider-Man #30 | Superior Spider-Man Annual #2 | Thor, God of Thunder #20

9 April 2014 in Comics, Review.

Sympathy for “Sympathy for the Devil”

The finest trick humanity ever played was persuading itself that he devil was real.

18 March 2014 in Music.

Reviews in Brief (3/12/2014)

Brief reviews of: Captain Marvel #1 | Hawkeye #15 | Hawkeye #17 | Mind MGMT #19 | Moon Knight #1 | She-Hulk #2 | Superior Foes of Spider-Man #9 | Superior Spider-Man #28 & #29

12 March 2014 in Comics, Review.

“Movies, Museums and the Hall of Fame” – Beat Street & the Past Future of Hip Hop

Hip Hop got up big time, and I love that, but its focus on cultural production left its political potential untapped.

25 February 2014 in Authenticity, Film, Music.

Reviews in Brief (2/12/2014)

Brief reviews of: Hawkeye #16 | Ms. Marvel #1 | She-Hulk #1 | Superior Spider-Man #26 | Thor, God of Thunder #18

12 February 2014 in Comics, Review.

“Let’s Rewrite Some History”: Captain Marvel & Feminist Revisionism

The first major story arc in DeConnick’s series is an attempt to write Ms./Captain Marvel into a revisionist feminist text – a laudable attempt to make manifest the purported feminist subtext of the character.

21 January 2014 in Gender, Marvel Comics.

On the Interpretation of Mind MGMT

Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT unfolds like a dream, but what do dreams mean, if anything?

14 January 2014 in Independent Comics, Literary Theory.

Rock On and Drive: Songs in Conversation

Rock n’ roll songs about rock n’ roll disillusionment.

7 January 2014 in Music, Songs in Conversation.

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