“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.
Why You Should Read the New Spider-Woman
The hope of the new Spider-Woman series.
If it WAUGHs Like a Duck #3: Quack-Phooey
In which my preference switches between the two series. Fast and funny beats turgid “commentary.”
“If It WAUGHs Like a Duck” #2: Space Duck, Sex Turnip
Reading these two comics together that stand (let’s call it) 40 years apart, I can’t help but wonder if the versions of Howard I saw in previous issues somehow flipped across time and space to take each other’s place.
Should We Marvel at a Black Captain America?
Sam Wilson’s characterization as the rugged individual and then his ascension to the role of Captain America are political messages that must be addressed beyond the tendency of media to oversimplify the political ramifications of things, or streamline complex histories
“If It WAUGHs Like a Duck” #1: Trapped in a World with a New Howard the Duck series
The first in a series of posts about both the new and original Howard the Duck comic book series.
The Man Who Lived Twice! (If You Can Call That Living): Marvel’s Brother Voodoo
The fourth in a series of posts about black superheroes. Marvel Comics’ Brother Voodoo—a character to feel really conflicted about.
Super Hegemonic Team-up! Spider-Man, Daredevil & “The Death of Jean DeWolfe”
In this story, Spider-Man and Daredevil demonstrate a hegemonic framework for understanding urban crime (part of SUPER BLOG TEAM-UP #4).
#FireRickRemender?: Thinking Through Gender, Disproportionate Aging & Sexual Consent in Superhero Comics
Do alternate dimensions and the flow of time in superhero comics confuse and complicate issues of sex and consent?
Superior Responsibility: Spider-Man & the Thread of Identity
If there is one thing we can count on in mainstream superhero comics it is the strange tension between the accretion of change and the status quo.
Days of Future Now: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part Two of Two)
This is Part Two of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past.”
Days of Future Then: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part One of Two)
This is Part One of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past,” which originally appeared in X-Men issues #141 and #142.
XX-Men: The Failures of Brian Wood’s All-Woman X-Team
X-Men’s record of including women is still only good in relation to the rest of superhero comics.
“Let’s Rewrite Some History”: Captain Marvel & Feminist Revisionism
The first major story arc in DeConnick’s series is an attempt to write Ms./Captain Marvel into a revisionist feminist text – a laudable attempt to make manifest the purported feminist subtext of the character.
Dan Slott’s She-Hulk: Derivative Character as Meta-Comic
At the heart of Dan Slott’s run on She-Hulk is a alternately critical and nostalgic concern with continuity and rupture in serialized superhero comic books.
Fantastic: From the First, No Family is “Traditional”
The very idea of a traditional family is a delusion.
Do-Or-Die Hawkeye. . . Erm. . . Bed-Stuy
Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye takes place in Bed-Stuy, but where are the black people?
“I AM A MAN!” Machine Man, Robot Desire and Racial Assimilation
The generic “human” these robots want to be is a white human.
Black Goliath: “Some Black Super Dude”
Black Goliath is a title that never got a chance to really develop and it suffers from the problems of a lot of early attempts to bring ethnic characters into the limelight.
The Middle Spaces 