The Middle Spaces

Comics. Music. Culture.

Thanks and reflections after nearly 10 years of The Middle Spaces, and what happens next.

As 2021 comes to an end and the site’s 10-year anniversary approaches, it is time to think of a closing strategy for The Middle Spaces.

Cleaning up loose ends from the last year and making some announcements about the next.

A look at the past year, comics collecting present, and a possible future for The Middle Spaces

Our 2018 Year-End Meta Post considers the role of the personal – both identificatory perception and the labor of writing itself – in scholarship.

Taking the occasion of our 5th anniversary to explore the re-acquiring of X-Men comics in that same time period.

As the year ends, let’s look to 2018 and beyond by considering how comic book collecting and critical nostalgia shape The Middle Spaces blog.

Our annual Meta-Post, overcoming 2016’s malaise by doubling-down on what matters.

An overview of posts in need of revisiting.

Possible topics and flexible goals for 2015.

Identity is a constant retcon.

An overview of all the posts I planned to write or started writing but that never quite came together.