WAUGH and On and On #1: Neither Fish Nor Fowl
A return to Howard the Duck after a nearly three-year hiatus from the If It WAUGHs Like a Duck series. . .
Songs in Conversation: Don’t Knock the Intimacy of Urban Sound
Tony Orlando & Dawn’s “Knock Three Times” vs. Suzanne Vega’s “Luka” in the soundscape of urban living.
“Yo Soy Yancy Street!” El Thing About Place & Identity
A recent Marvel story connecting Groot to Puerto Rican culture via a visit with the Thing to Marvel’s Lower East Side analog, Yancy Street got me thinking about place and identity.
Power Pack Says Crack is Wack!
Marvel’s kid superheroes in the Crack Era, need to learn to just say “No” to white privilege.
Robocop: Representation By Erasure & The White-Washing of Detroit.
For a movie set in Detroit, it seems awful white.
Days of Future Now: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part Two of Two)
This is Part Two of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past.”
Robert Mayer’s Superfolks: Grist For The Mill
A resource that better writers can mine to develop something more sophisticated.
“And Then We Take It Higher” – Interpreting Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue”
Poor black and brown people in the West joined by music and their relation to power.
Black Lightning Always Strikes Twice! – Double-Consciousness as a Super-Power.
Jefferson Pierce’s “blackness” is explored in relation to his superheroic identity, but doesn’t get anywhere.
Do-Or-Die Hawkeye. . . Erm. . . Bed-Stuy
Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye takes place in Bed-Stuy, but where are the black people?
The Middle Spaces 