Violence is the Normalizing Force
Subaltern characters must punch their way into the “mainstream.”
Captain Marvel & More Black Iron Man
Rhodey’s armor allows him to literally don the guise of a successful white man, to “pass” in the world of (mostly) white superheroes.
Bring Me Xavier’s Brain!
Superhero comics: insufferably weird as to become predictable
Four-Color Color-Blindness: Black Iron Man
Reed Richards is not so fantastic when it comes to understanding race in America.
Thrills, Chills, and Safe Sexuality: The Sounds of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
The “scariness” of black sexuality made palatable.
Xaime Draws Maggie in Brooklyn
What the title says.
Gender Policing “This Woman’s Work”
The very act of singing what he is singing is the woman’s work he sings about.
Interpreting Tommy
It’s Oedipal.
Sometimes Samples Just Hypnotize
Hip-Hop does not eschew history, it honors it, it has a historical pluralism encoded and embedded in its foundational tracks.
Who is Peter Parker?
How do we recognize Peter Parker as Peter Parker?
Comic Store Disappointment
It is marginally better than Comic Book Men, that really isn’t saying much.
“We Pledge Allegiance All Our Lives. . .”
Stevie is challenging traditional notions of white-washed American history and what kinds of accomplishments should be included in that narrative.
It’s Superman!
An obscure book worth tracking down.
Hip-Hop History Comic
A hip-hop battle in comic form? Who drew this? I want a whole series!
Reading for the (Hip Hop) Conversation
Hip Hop and homage as critique
Wertham Was Right (Left)
Frederic Wertham: The most important comics critic of all time.
“All My Pasts Remembered”
There are multiple Mary Jane Watsons.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Revising Historical Horror into Bubblegum Horror
Evil by degrees.
Spider-Man is Black
Spider-man is Black. Or at least, he could be. . .
The Walking Dead & The Apocalyptic Open
The zombie apocalypse genre exists in an unending ending, a futureless world that echoes our own relationship to being.
“Friendly” Neighborhood Torturer
The normalizing of torture in our society in the post-Bush/Guantanamo era.
The Middle Spaces 