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