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Tag Archives: X-Men

All-Female Fanfare: Examining Marvel Fanfare #38

When it is a surprise to the editor that both stories in a comic are written and drawn by women, it takes an engaged reader to consider the actual significance.

7 April 2020 in Comics, Gender, Music.

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.

24 September 2019 in DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Race.

1001 Variations: Narrative Mutation & Marvel’s Exiles

New and different, but not all-new and all-different, adaptation and change in superhero comics as narrative mutation.,

7 May 2019 in Comic Studies, Comics, Guest Post.

Closing the Comics-Gate: On Recognizing the Politics of Comics

Comicsgaters are wrong because comics have always been political, but those politics weren’t always as great as they are sometimes made out to be by comics’ defenders.

5 February 2019 in Comics, Guest Post, History, Politics.

The (re)Collection Agency #10: A Conversation with Margaret Galvan

In the 10th installment of our series of talks with comics scholars and teachers, we talk to Dr. Margaret Galvan about comics archives, keeping a spreadsheet of a comics collection, and the importance of research into grassroots periodicals in the study of queer comics.

6 November 2018 in Comic Studies, Interview, Sexuality.

YA = Young Avengers: Asserting Maturity on the Threshold of Adulthood

Young Avengers provides a fun and thoughtful exploration of the contradictions inherent to the transformation from adolescence to adulthood.

16 October 2018 in Marvel Comics, Sexuality.

Brief Reviews of Comics (July 4 to 25, 2018)

Brief review of comics released in July 2018, including Astonisher #9, Captain America #1, The Quantum Age #1 and Paper Girls #22.

31 July 2018 in Comics, Review.

“Is There Anything Left to be Shattered?”: Reading Dazzler in the #MeToo Moment

Dazzler the Movie as an important fictional prehistory to the #MeToo movement and stories about abusive media figures.

10 April 2018 in Gender, Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Sexuality.

Like a Phoenix: On Selective Completion & Re-Collecting X-Men

Taking the occasion of our 5th anniversary to explore the re-acquiring of X-Men comics in that same time period.

20 March 2018 in Comics, Meta.

Mo’ Meta News: How Collecting Shapes The Middle Spaces

As the year ends, let’s look to 2018 and beyond by considering how comic book collecting and critical nostalgia shape The Middle Spaces blog.

26 December 2017 in Comics, Meta.

“Professor X is a(n Abusive) Jerk!”

Putting Professor X into the context of the powerful men who turn out to be serial abusers.

12 December 2017 in Comics, Gender.

Brief Comics Reviews (3/15 to 3/29 – 2017)

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

11 April 2017 in Comics, Review.

“Guns in the Valley” – a Review of Logan

Logan, the best there is at what he does, and what he does is care.

4 April 2017 in Film, Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Review.

Additions, Corrections, Retractions

An overview of posts in need of revisiting.

29 December 2015 in Meta, Review.

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.

28 July 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

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

Part Two of Exploring Storm as a postcolonial figure.

14 July 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

Imperfect Storm (Part One): Exploring “Lifedeath”

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

30 June 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

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

18 February 2015 in Comics, Review.

“I’m Looking for a Weird Love, Baby. . .” – Romance Comics & the Strangeness of the Normative

The heteronormative values these romance comics reinforce are really friggin’ queer.

17 February 2015 in Comics, Gender, Queer, Sexuality.

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.

14 January 2015 in Comics, Review.

Reviews in Brief (9/3 to 9/10 – 2014)

Brief reviews of comic books: Captain Marvel #7 | Death of Wolverine #1 & #2 | Hawkeye #20 | Ms. Marvel #8 | She-Hulk #8 | Superior Foes of Spider-Man #15 | Weird Love #3

10 September 2014 in Comics, Review.

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