WAUGH and On and On #8: The Duck is Dead. Long Live the Duck!
In the final (for now) installment of the Howard the Duck reading series, we examine the duck’s shift from social satire to Marvel Comics parody.
Reading Comics at the Threshold: A Round Table on Letter Columns & Other Comics Paratexts (Part 3)
The third and final part of our round table on comics paratexts, looking at digital comics and representations of the digital in comics.
Despite the Genocide: Deconstructed Masculinity and Thanos Fandom
Critiquing Thanos and the limits of deconstruction.
Unfreezing the Past: The MCU’s Captain America and Traumatic Reenactment
Re-considering the arc of Captain America through the lens of trauma in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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
Captain Marvel & More Black Iron Man
Rhodey’s armor allows him to literally don the guise of a successful white man, to “pass” in the world of (mostly) white superheroes.
Four-Color Color-Blindness: Black Iron Man
Reed Richards is not so fantastic when it comes to understanding race in America.
The Middle Spaces 