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.
“Hip Hop Started Out in the Art” – Tom Brevoort, Post-Racial Hip Hop & Comics
You can’t separate hip hop from race without looking like you’ve separated your head from sense.
Imperfect Storm (Part Two): Exploring “Lifedeath II”
Part Two of Exploring Storm as a postcolonial figure.
Imperfect Storm (Part One): Exploring “Lifedeath”
Exploring the relationship between seriality, identity and the colonial imagination through X-Men’s Storm.
