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Tag Archives: sexuality

“The Question” of Revision; Or the Difficult Case of Renee Montoya

Dr. Vincent Haddad examines both an issue of the brilliant new The Other History of the DC Universe series and O’Neil and Cowyn’s classic 1980s run on The Question, considering both the limits and promise of revision.

14 September 2021 in DC Comics, Guest Post.

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

10 January 2017 in Gender, Marvel Comics, Race.

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.

#FireRickRemender?: Thinking Through Gender, Disproportionate Aging & Sexual Consent in Superhero Comics

Do alternate dimensions and the flow of time in superhero comics confuse and complicate issues of sex and consent?

12 August 2014 in Comics, Gender, 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.

Fantastic: From the First, No Family is “Traditional”

The very idea of a traditional family is a delusion.

20 May 2013 in Marvel Comics, Queer, Review, Sexuality.
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