The Queer Silence of The Killing Joke
The intimacy between Batman and the Joker calls for imagining a different “last Batman story.”
Batman vs. Superman: Whatever Happened to Growing Up?
Putting the “final” Superman and Batman stories in conversation.
Reviews in Brief (11/19 to 12/17 – 2014)
Brief reviews of comics released from November 19 to December 17, 2014; including Captain Marvel #10 and Mind MGMT #29.
Superior Responsibility: Spider-Man & the Thread of Identity
If there is one thing we can count on in mainstream superhero comics it is the strange tension between the accretion of change and the status quo.
Robert Mayer’s Superfolks: Grist For The Mill
A resource that better writers can mine to develop something more sophisticated.
“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.
