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Yearly Archives: 2016

2016: Nothing To Be Done (But Pay Writers)

Our annual Meta-Post, overcoming 2016’s malaise by doubling-down on what matters.

27 December 2016 in Meta.

The (re)Collection Agency #1: Talking with Christopher Pizzino

The first in our on-going series of interviews with comics scholars.

13 December 2016 in Comic Studies, Comics, Interview.

Brief Reviews (11/16 to 11/30, 2016)

Brief reviews of recent comics released from November 16 to 30, including Wonder Woman #11, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #13, and Monstress #8.

6 December 2016 in Comics, Review.

Girl, You’ll Be an Invisible Woman Soon: Defining Serial Characters

Thinking through how readers conceptualize a character and the degree to which such a characterization can be independent of how the character acts in the actual stories she appears in.

29 November 2016 in Gender, Marvel Comics.

“Lo, There Shall Be An Ending:” Meditations on the End of the Fantastic Four

Marvel Comics hasn’t published a Fantastic Four title in over a year, and its absence marks a serious lack of imagination.

15 November 2016 in Marvel Comics, Queer.

Super-Villainous Voting (Redux)

Voting is a right, not a virtue.

8 November 2016 in Comics, Politics.

Hip Hop Levels Up: Sammus & Pieces in Space

Sammus embraces the kind of freedom afforded to grassroots, independent artists who don’t have corporate overseers menacing with strange gazes and mandates to sellout.

1 November 2016 in Albums, Guest Post, Music, Review.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #16: Til We WAUGH Again. . .

The final installment of If It WAUGHs Like a Duck considers life after deadlines.

25 October 2016 in Comics, Review.

Archiving the Fringe: Chinese Indie Comics Collective Special Comix

Exploring the range of style, format, and content in China’s Special Comix 6.

4 October 2016 in Art, Comics, Guest Post, Independent Comics, Review.

Your Favorite Superhero Sucks (Review)

A voice in the wilderness crying out against superheroic hegemony.

27 September 2016 in Books, Comic Studies, Review.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #15: Dead Duck

Even Steve Gerber can’t live up to the expectations of a Gerber-penned Howard the Duck, how can we expect Chip Zdarsky to?

20 September 2016 in Comics, Review.

Brief Reviews (8/24 to 9/7 – 2016)

Brief reviews of comics released (mostly) August 24 through September 7th, including Wonder Woman #5, Ms. Marvel #10, and Sixpack And Dogwelder: Hard-Travelin’ Heroz #1.

13 September 2016 in Comics, Review.

Songs in Conversation: Don’t Knock the Intimacy of Urban Sound

Tony Orlando & Dawn’s “Knock Three Times” vs. Suzanne Vega’s “Luka” in the soundscape of urban living.

30 August 2016 in Music, Songs in Conversation, Sound Studies, Urban Space.

Brief Reviews (8/3 to 8/17 – 2016)

Brief reviews of comics released August 3-17, 2016 – including Sam Wilson: Captain America #12, Wonder Woman #4, and The Flintstones #2.

23 August 2016 in Comics, Review.

The Captain Black America Needs

Leveraging Marvel’s underwhelming Civil War II to think about Black lives in the Marvel Universe.

16 August 2016 in Marvel Comics, Race.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #14: Get Your Mojo Workin’

In 1977? Evil mojo. In 2016? Evil Mojo!

9 August 2016 in Comics, Review.

Reviews in Brief (7/13 to 7/27 – 2016)

Brief reviews of comics released on July 13th, 20th and 27th, 2016 (w/ some exceptions), including Nighthawk #3, Wonder Woman #2 and several Civil War II tie-in issues.

2 August 2016 in Comics, Review.

The Queer Silence of The Killing Joke

The intimacy between Batman and the Joker calls for imagining a different “last Batman story.”

26 July 2016 in DC Comics, Queer, Sexuality, Sound Studies.

La Lucha Femenina: Women Wrestlers in Jaime Hernandez’s Locas

Luchadoras and the elasticity of gender in queered spaces.

19 July 2016 in Gender, Independent Comics, Queer, Sexuality.

“Forever is Already There” – On Thumb of the Maid

The best band no one has ever heard (or at the very least a quirky band whose one record brings me joy).

12 July 2016 in Albums, Music, Review.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #13: Kiss and Tell

Howard and Bev: thinking about the past and worrying about the future.

5 July 2016 in Comics.

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