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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.

5 November 2019 in Authenticity, Comics, Guest Post, Race.

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.,

7 May 2019 in Comic Studies, Comics, Guest Post.

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.

18 April 2019 in Comic Studies, Guest Post, Round Table, Sound Studies.

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.

16 April 2019 in Comic Studies, Guest Post, Round Table, Sound Studies.

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.

11 April 2019 in Comic Studies, Guest Post, Round Table, Sound Studies.

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.

9 April 2019 in Comic Studies, Guest Post, Round Table, Sound Studies.

Despite the Genocide: Deconstructed Masculinity and Thanos Fandom

Critiquing Thanos and the limits of deconstruction.

2 April 2019 in Film, Guest Post, Marvel Comics.

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.

5 February 2019 in Comics, Guest Post, History, Politics.

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?

22 January 2019 in Comics, Gender, Guest Post, Race.

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.

26 June 2018 in Film, Guest Post, Marvel Comics.

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.

5 June 2018 in Authenticity, DC Comics, Film, Guest Post, Politics.

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.

8 May 2018 in Comic Studies, Gender, Guest Post.

“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.

10 April 2018 in Gender, Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Sexuality.

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.

13 March 2018 in Comic Studies, Gender, Guest Post, Independent Comics, Round Table.

Bound By Law: Bitch Planet Comics Studies Round Table (part two)

Part Two in a scholarly round table examining Kelly Sue DeConnik and Valentine De Landro’s Bitch Planet.

8 March 2018 in Comic Studies, Gender, Guest Post, Race, Round Table.

Caged and Enraged: Bitch Planet Comics Studies Round Table (part one)

Part One in a scholarly round table examining Kelly Sue DeConnik and Valentine De Landro’s Bitch Planet.

6 March 2018 in Comic Studies, Gender, Guest Post, Round Table.

“Be Glad of Your Many Sisters” – The Insular and the Exceptional in Wonder Woman: The Circle

In this guest post, Bruno Savill de Jong explores Simone and the Dodsons re-imagining of Wonder Woman’s origin and its connection to Amazonian notions of womanhood.

5 December 2017 in DC Comics, Gender, Guest Post.

“Guns in the Valley” – a Review of Logan

Logan, the best there is at what he does, and what he does is care.

4 April 2017 in Film, Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Review.

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.

1 November 2016 in Albums, Guest Post, Music, Review.

Archiving the Fringe: Chinese Indie Comics Collective Special Comix

Exploring the range of style, format, and content in China’s Special Comix 6.

4 October 2016 in Art, Comics, Guest Post, Independent Comics, Review.

Bumbling: DC Super Hero Girls and the White Racial Imagination

This Girl Power(!) needs to be a little more intersectional in its thinking.

10 May 2016 in DC Comics, Gender, Guest Post, TV.

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