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Tag Archives: John Byrne

(Behold?) The Vision’s Penis: The Presence of Absence in Mutant Romance Tales

Guest writer Anna Peppard’s meditation on presence and absence of the Vision’s penis – and if it even matters.

18 August 2020 in Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Sexuality.

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.

29 November 2016 in Gender, Marvel Comics.

“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.

15 March 2016 in Authenticity, Comics, Urban Space.

Slut-Shaming She-Hulk

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

4 August 2015 in Gender, Marvel Comics, Sexuality.

Days of Future Now: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part Two of Two)

This is Part Two of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past.”

27 May 2014 in Marvel Comics, Politics, Race, Urban Space.

Days of Future Then: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part One of Two)

This is Part One of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past,” which originally appeared in X-Men issues #141 and #142.

20 May 2014 in Marvel Comics.

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.

20 November 2013 in Marvel Comics, Review, Sexuality.
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