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.

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.

Reviews in Brief (6/15 to 6/22 – 2016)

Brief reviews of comics that came out the weeks of June 15 and 22, 2016, including Wonder Woman #1, Nighthawk #1 & #2, and Bitch Planet #8.

Astro City: Shedding Light on Race in the Dark Age

The role of race in reconstructing the Bronze Age.

Reviews in Brief (5/11 to 6/9 – 2016)

Brief reviews of comics that came out from May 11 through June 9th of 2016, including Wonder Woman: Rebirth, The Fix #2 & #3 , and Astonishing Ant-Man #8.

Songs in Conversation: Those are Some Fragile Men, Baby Doll.

Defamiliarizing gender to highlight its constructedness.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #12: Quackosaurus Rex

Everyone loves dinosaurs, just some more than others.

Marvel Five-in-One: Prominent, Notorious and Invisible Black Lives of the Marvel Universe

Exploring the limits of diversity in a white supremacist framework through a five-in-one look at 1978’s Marvel Two-in-One.

Reviews in Brief (4/13 to 5/4 – 2016)

Brief reviews for comics released April 13 to May 4, including Dept. H #1, No Mercy #9 and Spider-Woman #6.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #11: Darned to Heck!

From Dream Land to Cleveland