Reading Comics at the Threshold: A Round Table on Letter Columns & Other Comics Paratexts (Part 1)
Part One in our three part roundtable on comics paratexts focuses on letter columns.
(Behold?) The Vision’s Penis: The Presence of Absence in Mutant Romance Tales
Guest writer Anna Peppard’s meditation on presence and absence of the Vision’s penis – and if it even matters.
Don’t Wait for a White Knight to Abolish the Police
Batman: White Knight demonstrates the limitation of the white imaginary regarding a post-police society by simply not being be able to envision one.
Harley Quinn’s Sexuality: A Tale of Three Lusts
Laura Grafton and Andew Deman examine the intersection of Harley Quinn’s three central relationships, with the Joker, Poison Ivy, and her audience.
“Jimmy Olsen—SUPER Freak!” – Disability and Superman’s Pal
How the limitations of Jimmy Olsen’s transformations limn the dynamics of superhuman embodiment.
Unstable Masks; Or, The Whiteness of the Superhero (a preview)
A guest post in the form of a preview of the forthcoming anthology, Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics.
“These Stories Are Out There” – Reclaiming Queer and Trans Histories with Melanie Gillman
Guest contributor, Tiffany Babb, interviews cartoonist Melanie Gillman about their work and the importance of envisioning queer and trans histories.
On Exoskeletons and Assimilation: Revisiting the Latinidad of Marvel’s Araña
Considering the role of Latinidad in Araña’s comics despite a decreasing representation of of its so-called “authentic” markers.
1001 Variations: Narrative Mutation & Marvel’s Exiles
New and different, but not all-new and all-different, adaptation and change in superhero comics as narrative mutation.,
Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics (part four)
Part Four in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.
Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics (part three)
Part Three in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.
Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics (part two)
Part Two in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.
Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics (part one)
Part One of a scholarly round table exploring the intersection of sound and comics.
Despite the Genocide: Deconstructed Masculinity and Thanos Fandom
Critiquing Thanos and the limits of deconstruction.
Closing the Comics-Gate: On Recognizing the Politics of Comics
Comicsgaters are wrong because comics have always been political, but those politics weren’t always as great as they are sometimes made out to be by comics’ defenders.
Kept in a Jar: Broomhilda and the Representation of Enslaved Women in Reginald Hudlin’s Django Unchained
Does the 2013 comic adaptation of Django Unchained’s inclusion of an unfilmed sequence provide insight into the figure of the black woman slave?
Unfreezing the Past: The MCU’s Captain America and Traumatic Reenactment
Re-considering the arc of Captain America through the lens of trauma in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Colonial Hottie: Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman and Brand Israel
A crucial interrogation of how Gal Gadot’s Israeli identity and IDF experience are used to sell her authenticity in the role of Wonder Woman.
Countering the Gaze: The Liberatory Potential of Bitch Planet’s Exploitation Aesthetic
Making use of the naturalized male gaze to challenge its reductive results and explore questions raised by our Bitch Planet Round Table.
“Is There Anything Left to be Shattered?”: Reading Dazzler in the #MeToo Moment
Dazzler the Movie as an important fictional prehistory to the #MeToo movement and stories about abusive media figures.
Hard Women, Hard Time: Bitch Planet Comics Studies Round Table (part three)
Part Three in a scholarly round table examining Kelly Sue DeConnik and Valentine De Landro’s Bitch Planet.
