“Guns in the Valley” – a Review of Logan
Logan, the best there is at what he does, and what he does is care.
Hip Hop Levels Up: Sammus & Pieces in Space
Sammus embraces the kind of freedom afforded to grassroots, independent artists who don’t have corporate overseers menacing with strange gazes and mandates to sellout.
Archiving the Fringe: Chinese Indie Comics Collective Special Comix
Exploring the range of style, format, and content in China’s Special Comix 6.
Bumbling: DC Super Hero Girls and the White Racial Imagination
This Girl Power(!) needs to be a little more intersectional in its thinking.
Miles From Representation: On Needing More from Bendis’s Spider-Man
What do we need to do to get a decent Afro-Latinx superhero?
Back to the Old School: 5 Classic Hip Hop Albums You Need to Learn
“You know what you need to learn? Old school artists don’t always burn!”
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
Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body
Could Cyborg be the comic book superhero representation of white supremacy’s effect on the black body? To have a black person transformed from a metaphorical machine to an actual one?
Titans Together! Superhero Sidekicks & The Anxiety of Influence
Understanding of the anxiety of influence is required in order to really understand sidekick superhero comics.
