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“Say It Loud!” Tyroc and the Trajectory of the Black Superhero (part 2)

Part Two of using DC’s Tyroc to consider the arc of the Black superhero.

10 November 2020 in DC Comics, Race.

“Say It Loud!” Tyroc and the Trajectory of the Black Superhero (part 1)

Part one in an exploration of how the trajectory of Tyroc’s character provides a blueprint for thinking about the arc of other black superheroes.

3 November 2020 in DC Comics, Race.

Don’t Wait for a White Knight to Abolish the Police

Batman: White Knight demonstrates the limitation of the white imaginary regarding a post-police society by simply not being be able to envision one.

21 July 2020 in DC Comics, Guest Post, Race.

Harley Quinn’s Sexuality: A Tale of Three Lusts

Laura Grafton and Andew Deman examine the intersection of Harley Quinn’s three central relationships, with the Joker, Poison Ivy, and her audience.

21 April 2020 in DC Comics, Guest Post, Queer, Sexuality.

“But We’re Out of Time”: Queer(ed) Nostalgia and The WB’s Birds of Prey

Thinking through how personal narratives also become mediated narratives that enable queer world-building through the example of The WB’s Birds of Prey.

24 March 2020 in DC Comics, Queer, TV.

Epic Disasters: Revisiting Marvel & DC’s 1980s Famine Relief Comics

How well do Marvel and DC’s 1985 comics meant to raise aid for famine relief in Africa tackle the tragic events they are addressing? Short answer? Not well.

24 September 2019 in DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Race.

Digging Up Ghosts: Teen Titans’ Mal Duncan & His Token Power

Using Teen Titans #41 to think through token characters and slavery as a narrative trope.

10 July 2018 in Comics, DC Comics, History, Race.

Colonial Hottie: Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman and Brand Israel

A crucial interrogation of how Gal Gadot’s Israeli identity and IDF experience are used to sell her authenticity in the role of Wonder Woman.

5 June 2018 in Authenticity, DC Comics, Film, Guest Post, Politics.

“Am I Black Enough For You?” The Respectability of CW’s Black Lightning

The CW’s Black Lighting represents the split between Black respectability and radical politics in a singular figure.

22 May 2018 in DC Comics, Race, TV.

“Be Glad of Your Many Sisters” – The Insular and the Exceptional in Wonder Woman: The Circle

In this guest post, Bruno Savill de Jong explores Simone and the Dodsons re-imagining of Wonder Woman’s origin and its connection to Amazonian notions of womanhood.

5 December 2017 in DC Comics, Gender, Guest Post.

Striking Back: Black Lightning and Reading Race (part two)

When Black Lightning rejects the Justice League he is rejecting white supremacy.

1 August 2017 in DC Comics, Race.

Striking Back: Black Lightning and Reading Race (part one)

The clumsy way superhero comic books of the post-Civil Rights 1970s explicitly address race can provide a site for imagining productive racial consciousness for black characters, while also highlighting the limits of that kind of resistant reading.

25 July 2017 in DC Comics, Race.

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.

Bumbling: DC Super Hero Girls and the White Racial Imagination

This Girl Power(!) needs to be a little more intersectional in its thinking.

10 May 2016 in DC Comics, Gender, Guest Post, TV.

Batman vs. Superman: Whatever Happened to Growing Up?

Putting the “final” Superman and Batman stories in conversation.

12 January 2016 in DC Comics.

Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body

Could Cyborg be the comic book superhero representation of white supremacy’s effect on the black body? To have a black person transformed from a metaphorical machine to an actual one?

31 March 2015 in DC Comics, Guest Post, Race.

OMG! OMAC 4 PREZ: Future-Past-Prolepsis

An examination of a vision of a future from the past is not about its predictive powers, but what that vision tells us about the fears of that era.

23 December 2014 in DC Comics, Literary Theory, Politics.

Titans Together! Superhero Sidekicks & The Anxiety of Influence

Understanding of the anxiety of influence is required in order to really understand sidekick superhero comics.

5 November 2013 in DC Comics, Guest Post, Literary Theory.

Black Lightning Always Strikes Twice! – Double-Consciousness as a Super-Power.

Jefferson Pierce’s “blackness” is explored in relation to his superheroic identity, but doesn’t get anywhere.

22 October 2013 in Authenticity, DC Comics, Race, Urban Space.

It’s a Wonder, Wonder Woman

More than 40 years later, Wonder Woman still has to deal with the same masculine hostility.

3 March 2013 in DC Comics, Gender.

Dial H: I Would Prefer Not To. . .

This issue uses the title’s meta-position as simultaneously within and without the superhero comic genre to comment on depictions of race in comics.

22 January 2013 in DC Comics, Race.
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