17 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comics released from November 19 to December 17, 2014; including Captain Marvel #10 and Mind MGMT #29.

Reviews in Brief (10/22 to 11/12 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comic books released from October 22 to November 12, 2014; including Captain America & The Mighty Avengers #1

Super Hegemonic Team-up! Spider-Man, Daredevil & “The Death of Jean DeWolfe”

In this story, Spider-Man and Daredevil demonstrate a hegemonic framework for understanding urban crime (part of SUPER BLOG TEAM-UP #4).

Reviews in Brief (9/17 to 9/24 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comic books released from September 17 to 24, 2014; including All-New Ghost Rider #7 and The Wicked + The Divine #4

Reviews in Brief (8/6 to 8/27 – 2014)

#FireRickRemender?: Thinking Through Gender, Disproportionate Aging & Sexual Consent in Superhero Comics

Do alternate dimensions and the flow of time in superhero comics confuse and complicate issues of sex and consent?

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.

Reviews in Brief (6/18 to 7/09 – 2014)

On Collecting Comics & Critical Nostalgia

Identity is a constant retcon.

“The More Things Change. . .” Golden Legacy, Affirmative Action & Black Comics

This Golden Legacy comic on the life of MLK is notable for three reasons.

Reviews in Brief (5/21 to 6/11 – 2014)

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.”

Days of Future Then: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part One of Two)

This is Part One of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past,” which originally appeared in X-Men issues #141 and #142.

Reviews in Brief (4/16 to 5/14 – 2014)

XX-Men: The Failures of Brian Wood’s All-Woman X-Team

X-Men’s record of including women is still only good in relation to the rest of superhero comics.

Reviews in Brief (3/19 to 4/09 – 2014)

Reviews in Brief (2/12/2014)

Brief reviews of: Hawkeye #16 | Ms. Marvel #1 | She-Hulk #1 | Superior Spider-Man #26 | Thor, God of Thunder #18

On the Interpretation of Mind MGMT

Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT unfolds like a dream, but what do dreams mean, if anything?

2013: Reviewing The Year It Wasn’t

An overview of all the posts I planned to write or started writing but that never quite came together.

Oglaf: Sexual Phantasmagoria (NSFW)

The shock of the queer in Oglaf undermines a genre where uber-masculine hyper-hetero adventures are the norm.

Robert Mayer’s Superfolks: Grist For The Mill

A resource that better writers can mine to develop something more sophisticated.

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Comics. Music. Culture.

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