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.

Blinded By the Sound: Marvel’s Dazzler – Light & Sound in Comics

Dazzler is the perfect subject for looking at the representation of sound in comics

Snot-Nosed Hulk

If Banner’s anger is inextricable from his immediate social world, the Hulk’s anger is more basic, primal and constant. It is the anger of being.

Misogyny to the Rescue!

If I were Sue Richards I would have divorced Reed’s ass a long time ago. .

Groovin’ on a Perfect “10”

Bathroom humor.

No-Prize Is Its Own Prize

Seriality and Macro-closure

Violence is the Normalizing Force

Subaltern characters must punch their way into the “mainstream.”

Captain Marvel & More Black Iron Man

Rhodey’s armor allows him to literally don the guise of a successful white man, to “pass” in the world of (mostly) white superheroes.

Bring Me Xavier’s Brain!

Superhero comics: insufferably weird as to become predictable

Four-Color Color-Blindness: Black Iron Man

Reed Richards is not so fantastic when it comes to understanding race in America.

Xaime Draws Maggie in Brooklyn

What the title says.

Who is Peter Parker?

How do we recognize Peter Parker as Peter Parker?

Comic Store Disappointment

It is marginally better than Comic Book Men, that really isn’t saying much.

Hip-Hop History Comic

A hip-hop battle in comic form? Who drew this? I want a whole series!

Wertham Was Right (Left)

Frederic Wertham: The most important comics critic of all time.

“All My Pasts Remembered”

There are multiple Mary Jane Watsons.

Spider-Man is Black

Spider-man is Black. Or at least, he could be. . .

The Walking Dead & The Apocalyptic Open

The zombie apocalypse genre exists in an unending ending, a futureless world that echoes our own relationship to being.

“Friendly” Neighborhood Torturer

The normalizing of torture in our society in the post-Bush/Guantanamo era.

“That’s Really Super, Supergirl”

Pretty sure the dudes in XTC read Crisis on Infinite Earths