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Marvel Comics

Alpha & Omega #6: Pulling Back the Curtain

In the sixth installment of Alpha & Omega things take a turn for the charming and the meta.

20 February 2018 in Comics, Marvel Comics.

Alpha & Omega #5: You Can’t Go Home Again

The fifth installment of our exploration of both Omega the Unknown series.

16 January 2018 in Comics, Marvel Comics.

Alpha & Omega #4: El Gato Mató La Curiosidad

The fourth installment of our Omega the Unknown double-read through features cats, bullies and nano-bots.

28 November 2017 in Comics, Marvel Comics.

Alpha & Omega #3: School of Hard Knocks

The third installment of our Omega the Unknown double-read through, as our protagonist tries to figure out the complexities of school hierarchies.

3 October 2017 in Comics, Marvel Comics.

Alpha & Omega #1: Into the Unknown

The first installment in a new series of posts comparing the 1970s Omega the Unknown comic book and the 2000s re-imagining.

11 July 2017 in Comics, Marvel Comics, Reading Series, Review.

Re-Reading Girl Comics

A 2010 series by women, but for who?

16 May 2017 in Gender, Marvel Comics.

“Guns in the Valley” – a Review of Logan

Logan, the best there is at what he does, and what he does is care.

4 April 2017 in Film, Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Review.

The Tangled Web of Racial and Gender Progress in Comics

Even comics that are not particularly “important” can tell us a lot about the attitudes acceptable in the editorial environments in which they were developed

10 January 2017 in Gender, Marvel Comics, Race.

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.

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.

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.

24 May 2016 in Marvel Comics, Race.

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

From Dream Land to Cleveland

3 May 2016 in Marvel Comics, Review.

Miles From Representation: On Needing More from Bendis’s Spider-Man

What do we need to do to get a decent Afro-Latinx superhero?

5 April 2016 in Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Race.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #10: You Can’t Go Home Again

Home is where the egg (or Bev) is.

22 March 2016 in Marvel Comics, Review.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #9: Flying North for the Winter

Canada: As cold as space, and home to nearly as many anthropomorphic animals.

23 February 2016 in Marvel Comics, Review.

Marvels and the Limited Imagination of Nostalgia

Sometimes looking back is the way to move forward, but that isn’t the case here.

9 February 2016 in History, Marvel Comics, Review.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #8: Get Down! Space Out!

A duck by any other name could still be cool to read about, but he might not feel like Howard.

26 January 2016 in Marvel Comics, Review.

Power Pack Says Crack is Wack!

Marvel’s kid superheroes in the Crack Era, need to learn to just say “No” to white privilege.

22 December 2015 in Marvel Comics, Urban Space.

Slut-Shaming She-Hulk

Why is She-Hulk to blame for the “signal” she supposedly puts out?

4 August 2015 in Gender, Marvel Comics, Sexuality.

Imperfect Storm (Part Three): “Return of the Goddess”

Storm’s return to the site of her X-origin and the awkward undoing of her “goddess” identity.

28 July 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

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