The Tangled Web of Racial and Gender Progress in Comics
Even comics that are not particularly “important” can tell us a lot about the attitudes acceptable in the editorial environments in which they were developed
Even comics that are not particularly “important” can tell us a lot about the attitudes acceptable in the editorial environments in which they were developed
Even Steve Gerber can’t live up to the expectations of a Gerber-penned Howard the Duck, how can we expect Chip Zdarsky to?
Sometimes looking back is the way to move forward, but that isn’t the case here.
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.