Digging Up Ghosts: Teen Titans’ Mal Duncan & His Token Power
Using Teen Titans #41 to think through token characters and slavery as a narrative trope.
Alpha & Omega #9: Poetic License to Kill
The ninth installment of reading both versions of Omega the Unknown (from 1976 and 2007 respectively) against each other.
Jack-in-the-Box: Race & Legacy Superheroes
Exploring the intersection of legacy and race in superhero comics through Kurt Busiek’s Astro City
Striking Back: Black Lightning and Reading Race (part two)
When Black Lightning rejects the Justice League he is rejecting white supremacy.
Striking Back: Black Lightning and Reading Race (part one)
The clumsy way superhero comic books of the post-Civil Rights 1970s explicitly address race can provide a site for imagining productive racial consciousness for black characters, while also highlighting the limits of that kind of resistant reading.
The (re)Collection Agency #2: A Conversation with Qiana Whitted
The second in our on-going series of interviews with comics scholars.
Astro City: Shedding Light on Race in the Dark Age
The role of race in reconstructing the Bronze Age.
