Brief Comic Book Reviews (Dec 19, 2018 to Jan 16, 2019)

Brief review of comics released between (mostly) December 19, 2018 to January 16 – including Runaways #16, Bitter Root #3, and Fantastic Four #5.

“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 (1/13 to 1/20 – 2016)

Brief reviews of comics released the weeks of 1/13 and 1/20 – including Ms. Marvel #3, the Mighty Thor #3 and Sam Wilson: Captain America #5

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.

Slut-Shaming She-Hulk

Why is She-Hulk to blame for the “signal” she supposedly puts out?

Reviews in Brief (2/4 to 2/18 – 2015)

Brief reviews of comic books released from February 2 to 18, 2015; including Bitch Planet #3 and Silk #1

Reviews in Brief (10/1 to 10/15 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comic books released from October 1 to 15, 2014; including Death of Wolverine #3 and #4.

Reviews in Brief (8/6 to 8/27 – 2014)

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)

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

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.

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.

The Middle Spaces

Comics. Music. Culture.

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