The dark sound and minimalist instrumentation on “If I Was Your Girlfriend” demonstrates Prince’s willingness to bend and distort expectations with a lyrical and sonic playfulness that challenges the listener to think beyond the obvious gender stereotypes inherent in most popular love songs.
The third in our series of talks with comics scholars; this time we talk letters columns, graphic medicine, and keeping comics studies fun with Dr. Leah Misemer.
Brief reviews of recent comics, including Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special #1, Sam Wilson: Captain America #20, and Hulk #4.
Logan, the best there is at what he does, and what he does is care.
The social nature of personal identity in Brian K. Vaughn and Marcos Martin’s The Private Eye.
Brief reviews of comics released February 8th, 15th and 22nd, including Occupy Avengers #4 and Hulk #3.
Thinking about the bliss of the incomplete comic book serial.
The second in our on-going series of interviews with comics scholars.
Brief reviews of recent comics including Wonder Woman #14, U.S. Avengers #1, and The Flintstones #7.
You wanna hear a good joke? Nobody speak, nobody get choked.
Even comics that are not particularly “important” can tell us a lot about the attitudes acceptable in the editorial environments in which they were developed
Our annual Meta-Post, overcoming 2016’s malaise by doubling-down on what matters.
The first in our on-going series of interviews with comics scholars.
Brief reviews of recent comics released from November 16 to 30, including Wonder Woman #11, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #13, and Monstress #8.
Thinking through how readers conceptualize a character and the degree to which such a characterization can be independent of how the character acts in the actual stories she appears in.
Marvel Comics hasn’t published a Fantastic Four title in over a year, and its absence marks a serious lack of imagination.
Voting is a right, not a virtue.
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.
The final installment of If It WAUGHs Like a Duck considers life after deadlines.
Exploring the range of style, format, and content in China’s Special Comix 6.
A voice in the wilderness crying out against superheroic hegemony.
The Middle Spaces 