“Invisible (Watch)Men: The Impossibility of the Black Superhero”

Miles Morales or Trayvon Martin are more likely to be victim of a “heroic” vigilante than to be one.

Do-Or-Die Hawkeye. . . Erm. . . Bed-Stuy

Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye takes place in Bed-Stuy, but where are the black people?

“I AM A MAN!” Machine Man, Robot Desire and Racial Assimilation

The generic “human” these robots want to be is a white human.

Black Goliath: “Some Black Super Dude”

Black Goliath is a title that never got a chance to really develop and it suffers from the problems of a lot of early attempts to bring ethnic characters into the limelight.

“This Sorrowful Life” – Making Time to Redeem Racists

The Walking dead trots out the old trope of the racist you love to hate, or maybe that’s (don’t really) hate to love.

Succeeding in the Super-Biz

Imagining a different tradition for super-heroines.

Alternate Futures of Wonder

Like a great deal of science fiction Stevie Wonder’s “Saturn” presents an alternate future by imagining an alternate past

Dial H: I Would Prefer Not To. . .

This issue uses the title’s meta-position as simultaneously within and without the superhero comic genre to comment on depictions of race in comics.

Where ‘The Walking Dead’ Fails Viewers When It Comes to Race

Just because the world has gone to hell doesn’t mean that the prejudices and privileges of white people won’t bubble up to betray you.

Captain Marvel & More Black Iron Man

Rhodey’s armor allows him to literally don the guise of a successful white man, to “pass” in the world of (mostly) white superheroes.

Four-Color Color-Blindness: Black Iron Man

Reed Richards is not so fantastic when it comes to understanding race in America.

“We Pledge Allegiance All Our Lives. . .”

Stevie is challenging traditional notions of white-washed American history and what kinds of accomplishments should be included in that narrative.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Revising Historical Horror into Bubblegum Horror

Evil by degrees.

Spider-Man is Black

Spider-man is Black. Or at least, he could be. . .

Commodification: Public Enemy #1

An important step in the commodification of black militancy