Epic Disasters: Revisiting Marvel & DC’s 1980s Famine Relief Comics

How well do Marvel and DC’s 1985 comics meant to raise aid for famine relief in Africa tackle the tragic events they are addressing? Short answer? Not well.

Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics (part three)

Part Three in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.

The Captain Black America Needs

Leveraging Marvel’s underwhelming Civil War II to think about Black lives in the Marvel Universe.

Additions, Corrections, Retractions

An overview of posts in need of revisiting.

Imperfect Storm (Part Three): “Return of the Goddess”

Storm’s return to the site of her X-origin and the awkward undoing of her “goddess” identity.

Imperfect Storm (Part Two): Exploring “Lifedeath II”

Part Two of Exploring Storm as a postcolonial figure.

Imperfect Storm (Part One): Exploring “Lifedeath”

Exploring the relationship between seriality, identity and the colonial imagination through X-Men’s Storm.

Reviews in Brief (5/6 to 5/13 – 2015)

Short reviews of comics released between May 6th and May 13th, 2015. All Marvel Comics this time around.

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 (11/19 to 12/17 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comics released from November 19 to December 17, 2014; including Captain Marvel #10 and Mind MGMT #29.

Reviews in Brief (10/1 to 10/15 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comic books released from October 1 to 15, 2014; including Death of Wolverine #3 and #4.

Reviews in Brief (9/17 to 9/24 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comic books released from September 17 to 24, 2014; including All-New Ghost Rider #7 and The Wicked + The Divine #4

Reviews in Brief (8/6 to 8/27 – 2014)

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

Days of Future Now: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part Two of Two)

This is Part Two of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past.”

Days of Future Then: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part One of Two)

This is Part One of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past,” which originally appeared in X-Men issues #141 and #142.