Alpha & Omega #6: Pulling Back the Curtain

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Re-Reading Girl Comics

A 2010 series by women, but for who?

“Guns in the Valley” – a Review of Logan

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

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

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.

The Captain Black America Needs

Leveraging Marvel’s underwhelming Civil War II to think about Black lives in the Marvel Universe.

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.

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

From Dream Land to Cleveland

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

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

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

Home is where the egg (or Bev) is.

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.

Marvels and the Limited Imagination of Nostalgia

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

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.

Power Pack Says Crack is Wack!

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

Slut-Shaming She-Hulk

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

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.