“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.

Reviews in Brief (11/25 to 12/02 – 2016)

Brief reviews of comics released November 25 to December 2, 2015; including Totally Awesome Hulk #1 and Prez #6.

Reviews in Brief (11/4 to 11/18 – 2015)

Brief reviews of comics that came out from 11/4 to 11/18, 2015 (plus a few outliers), including: Spider-Woman #1, Mighty Thor #1 and Monstress #1.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #6: On a Wing and a Prayer

Howard and his female companion(s) on the road, again.

The Captain White America Needs

Because you can’t trust even the best-intentioned white Captain America to know what’s up.

“For a Good Time. . .” – Calling Up Sexist Impulses to Sell Video Games

The assumption of video games as a masculine space goes way back.

Reviews in Brief (7/1 to 8/12 – 2015)

Brief reviews of comics that were released between July 1st and August 12th, including Bizarro #2. Silver Surfer #7 and Hawkeye #22.

If It WAUGHs Like a Duck #5: The Bill’s in the Mail

What do letters published in these books tell us about the difference in these series?

Imperfect Storm (Part Three): “Return of the Goddess”

Storm’s return to the site of her X-origin and the awkward undoing of her “goddess” identity.

Imperfect Storm (Part Two): Exploring “Lifedeath II”

Part Two of Exploring Storm as a postcolonial figure.

Reviews in Brief (6/17 to 6/24 – 2015)

Brief reviews of comics released on June 17th and June 24th, 2015 – including Prez #1 and Ms. Marvel #16.

Imperfect Storm (Part One): Exploring “Lifedeath”

Exploring the relationship between seriality, identity and the colonial imagination through X-Men’s Storm.

Why You Should Read the New Spider-Woman

The hope of the new Spider-Woman series.

“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.

“If It WAUGHs Like a Duck” #1: Trapped in a World with a New Howard the Duck series

The first in a series of posts about both the new and original Howard the Duck comic book series.

“I Know It When I See It”- Race, Relatability, and Reading Practice

The ways fans of color engage with characters and stories can re-circuit and re-interpret those stories in ways that provide the kind of productive identification that challenges that tired old repetitive and thoughtless representation.

Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body

Could Cyborg be the comic book superhero representation of white supremacy’s effect on the black body? To have a black person transformed from a metaphorical machine to an actual one?

The Man Who Lived Twice! (If You Can Call That Living): Marvel’s Brother Voodoo

The fourth in a series of posts about black superheroes. Marvel Comics’ Brother Voodoo—a character to feel really conflicted about.

“I’m Looking for a Weird Love, Baby. . .” – Romance Comics & the Strangeness of the Normative

The heteronormative values these romance comics reinforce are really friggin’ queer.

Forget the Year that Was. . . Imagine the Year that Could Be

Possible topics and flexible goals for 2015.

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.