Year-End Meta 2020: Additions, Corrections, Updates & Announcements
Cleaning up loose ends from the last year and making some announcements about the next.
Girl, You’ll Be an Invisible Woman Soon: Defining Serial Characters
Thinking through how readers conceptualize a character and the degree to which such a characterization can be independent of how the character acts in the actual stories she appears in.
“Lo, There Shall Be An Ending:” Meditations on the End of the Fantastic Four
Marvel Comics hasn’t published a Fantastic Four title in over a year, and its absence marks a serious lack of imagination.
“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.
“I’m Looking for a Weird Love, Baby. . .” – Romance Comics & the Strangeness of the Normative
The heteronormative values these romance comics reinforce are really friggin’ queer.
OMG! OMAC 4 PREZ: Future-Past-Prolepsis
An examination of a vision of a future from the past is not about its predictive powers, but what that vision tells us about the fears of that era.
On Collecting Comics & Critical Nostalgia
Identity is a constant retcon.
“I AM A MAN!” Machine Man, Robot Desire and Racial Assimilation
The generic “human” these robots want to be is a white human.
The Middle Spaces 