Year-End Meta 2020: Additions, Corrections, Updates & Announcements
Cleaning up loose ends from the last year and making some announcements about the next.
Brief Comic Book Reviews (Dec 19, 2018 to Jan 16, 2019)
Brief review of comics released between (mostly) December 19, 2018 to January 16 – including Runaways #16, Bitter Root #3, and Fantastic Four #5.
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.
“Lo, There Shall Be An Ending:” Meditations on the End of the Fantastic Four
Marvel Comics hasn’t published a Fantastic Four title in over a year, and its absence marks a serious lack of imagination.
“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.
The Middle Spaces 