Dan Slott’s She-Hulk: Derivative Character as Meta-Comic
At the heart of Dan Slott’s run on She-Hulk is a alternately critical and nostalgic concern with continuity and rupture in serialized superhero comic books.
Titans Together! Superhero Sidekicks & The Anxiety of Influence
Understanding of the anxiety of influence is required in order to really understand sidekick superhero comics.
Black Lightning Always Strikes Twice! – Double-Consciousness as a Super-Power.
Jefferson Pierce’s “blackness” is explored in relation to his superheroic identity, but doesn’t get anywhere.
“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.
Fantastic: From the First, No Family is “Traditional”
The very idea of a traditional family is a delusion.
Do-Or-Die Hawkeye. . . Erm. . . Bed-Stuy
Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye takes place in Bed-Stuy, but where are the black people?
“I AM A MAN!” Machine Man, Robot Desire and Racial Assimilation
The generic “human” these robots want to be is a white human.
Black Goliath: “Some Black Super Dude”
Black Goliath is a title that never got a chance to really develop and it suffers from the problems of a lot of early attempts to bring ethnic characters into the limelight.
Marvel’s Illuminati – Responsible for both Jay-Z’s Success and the Infinity Gems
When superhero contingencies are indistinguishable from supervillain schemes.
It’s a Wonder, Wonder Woman
More than 40 years later, Wonder Woman still has to deal with the same masculine hostility.
Succeeding in the Super-Biz
Imagining a different tradition for super-heroines.
Dial H: I Would Prefer Not To. . .
This issue uses the title’s meta-position as simultaneously within and without the superhero comic genre to comment on depictions of race in comics.
Blinded By the Sound: Marvel’s Dazzler – Light & Sound in Comics
Dazzler is the perfect subject for looking at the representation of sound in comics
Snot-Nosed Hulk
If Banner’s anger is inextricable from his immediate social world, the Hulk’s anger is more basic, primal and constant. It is the anger of being.
Misogyny to the Rescue!
If I were Sue Richards I would have divorced Reed’s ass a long time ago. .
Groovin’ on a Perfect “10”
Bathroom humor.
No-Prize Is Its Own Prize
Seriality and Macro-closure
Violence is the Normalizing Force
Subaltern characters must punch their way into the “mainstream.”
Bring Me Xavier’s Brain!
Superhero comics: insufferably weird as to become predictable
Xaime Draws Maggie in Brooklyn
What the title says.
Who is Peter Parker?
How do we recognize Peter Parker as Peter Parker?
The Middle Spaces 