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Literary Theory

Imperfect Storm (Part Three): “Return of the Goddess”

Storm’s return to the site of her X-origin and the awkward undoing of her “goddess” identity.

28 July 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

Imperfect Storm (Part Two): Exploring “Lifedeath II”

Part Two of Exploring Storm as a postcolonial figure.

14 July 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

Imperfect Storm (Part One): Exploring “Lifedeath”

Exploring the relationship between seriality, identity and the colonial imagination through X-Men’s Storm.

30 June 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

OMG! OMAC 4 PREZ: Future-Past-Prolepsis

An examination of a vision of a future from the past is not about its predictive powers, but what that vision tells us about the fears of that era.

23 December 2014 in DC Comics, Literary Theory, Politics.

On the Interpretation of Mind MGMT

Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT unfolds like a dream, but what do dreams mean, if anything?

14 January 2014 in Independent Comics, Literary Theory.

Titans Together! Superhero Sidekicks & The Anxiety of Influence

Understanding of the anxiety of influence is required in order to really understand sidekick superhero comics.

5 November 2013 in DC Comics, Guest Post, Literary Theory.

No-Prize Is Its Own Prize

Seriality and Macro-closure

20 November 2012 in Comics, Literary Theory.

Wertham Was Right (Left)

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

5 June 2012 in Comics, Literary Theory, Politics.

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.

25 May 2012 in Comics, Literary Theory.
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