Alpha & Omega #2: If You Can’t Stand the Heat
The second installment of our Omega the Unknown double-read through, as our protagonist is introduced to New York City.
Striking Back: Black Lightning and Reading Race (part one)
The clumsy way superhero comic books of the post-Civil Rights 1970s explicitly address race can provide a site for imagining productive racial consciousness for black characters, while also highlighting the limits of that kind of resistant reading.
Astro City: Shedding Light on Race in the Dark Age
The role of race in reconstructing the Bronze Age.
“If It WAUGHs Like a Duck” #2: Space Duck, Sex Turnip
Reading these two comics together that stand (let’s call it) 40 years apart, I can’t help but wonder if the versions of Howard I saw in previous issues somehow flipped across time and space to take each other’s place.
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.
The Middle Spaces 