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
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.
#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?
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.
Fantastic: From the First, No Family is “Traditional”
The very idea of a traditional family is a delusion.
