29 – 2017)

Brief reviews of recent comics, including Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special #1, Sam Wilson: Captain America #20, and Hulk #4.

Brief Reviews (2/8 to 2/22 – 2017)

Brief reviews of comics released February 8th, 15th and 22nd, including Occupy Avengers #4 and Hulk #3.

Brief Comics Reviews (12/21/2016 to 1/11/2017)

Brief reviews of recent comics including Wonder Woman #14, U.S. Avengers #1, and The Flintstones #7.

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.

Additions, Corrections, Retractions

An overview of posts in need of revisiting.

Slut-Shaming She-Hulk

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

“If It WAUGHs Like a Duck” #1: Trapped in a World with a New Howard the Duck series

The first in a series of posts about both the new and original Howard the Duck comic book series.

Reviews in Brief (2/4 to 2/18 – 2015)

Brief reviews of comic books released from February 2 to 18, 2015; including Bitch Planet #3 and Silk #1

Reviews in Brief (12/24 to 1/14 – 2014/15)

Brief reviews of comic books from December 24, 2014 to January 14, 2015; including Ant-Man #1 and Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1.

Reviews in Brief (10/22 to 11/12 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comic books released from October 22 to November 12, 2014; including Captain America & The Mighty Avengers #1

Reviews in Brief (9/3 to 9/10 – 2014)

Reviews in Brief (8/6 to 8/27 – 2014)

Superior Responsibility: Spider-Man & the Thread of Identity

If there is one thing we can count on in mainstream superhero comics it is the strange tension between the accretion of change and the status quo.

Reviews in Brief (7/16 to 7/30 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comics, including Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 | All-New Ghost Rider #5 | Hawkeye #19 and Ms. Marvel #6

Reviews in Brief (5/21 to 6/11 – 2014)

Reviews in Brief (3/12/2014)

Reviews in Brief (2/12/2014)

Brief reviews of: Hawkeye #16 | Ms. Marvel #1 | She-Hulk #1 | Superior Spider-Man #26 | Thor, God of Thunder #18

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.