2016: Nothing To Be Done (But Pay Writers)
Our annual Meta-Post, overcoming 2016’s malaise by doubling-down on what matters.
The (re)Collection Agency #1: Talking with Christopher Pizzino
The first in our on-going series of interviews with comics scholars.
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.
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.
“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.
Super-Villainous Voting (Redux)
Voting is a right, not a virtue.
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.
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.
Archiving the Fringe: Chinese Indie Comics Collective Special Comix
Exploring the range of style, format, and content in China’s Special Comix 6.
Your Favorite Superhero Sucks (Review)
A voice in the wilderness crying out against superheroic hegemony.
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?
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.
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.
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.
The Captain Black America Needs
Leveraging Marvel’s underwhelming Civil War II to think about Black lives in the Marvel Universe.
If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #14: Get Your Mojo Workin’
In 1977? Evil mojo. In 2016? Evil Mojo!
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.
The Queer Silence of The Killing Joke
The intimacy between Batman and the Joker calls for imagining a different “last Batman story.”
La Lucha Femenina: Women Wrestlers in Jaime Hernandez’s Locas
Luchadoras and the elasticity of gender in queered spaces.
“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).
If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #13: Kiss and Tell
Howard and Bev: thinking about the past and worrying about the future.
