Travis Hedge Coke, Author at Comic Watch

Writer of the Patricia Highsmash column. Former editor of Along the Chaparral, Future Earth Magazine & Platte Valley Review. Author of Examining New X-Men & Us Living in Fictional Cosmogonies. Guest Presenter at Naropa University, University of California Riverside, and Harbin Institute. Former faculty, Shandong University. New film, low fruit, at https://bit.ly/2zvuzcs

Monster Logic and the Creature Commandos

Commentary, Featured, News, Patricia HighsmashBy Travis Hedge Coke February 6, 2023 Leave a comment

Creature Commandos is a viciously anti-war comic and a very silly monster farce by @JMDeMatteis, Pat Broderick & others. Why would the US military disguise damaged men as classic movie monsters to fight Nazis? Find out! #CreatureCommandos #DCComics

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Dracula Ought to Be Weird: Mama Dracula

Commentary, Featured, LGBTQ, Patricia Highsmash, Regular ContentBy Travis Hedge Coke January 30, 2023 Leave a comment

Louise Fletcher is MAMA DRACULA! A parodic, farcical, camp #queer comedy #horror cabaret as only a #Dracula could host for us! #LGBTQ

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When You Don’t Mind Spoilers

Commentary, LGBTQ, Regular Content, UncategorizedBy Travis Hedge Coke January 23, 2023 Leave a comment

Do I not care about spoilers because of my disabilities? Socioeconomic status? Education? Childhood? Does it make me a good audience? Good critic? Or the worst?

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Fandom and the Fear of Representation

Commentary, Featured, LGBTQ, Patricia Highsmash, Regular ContentBy Travis Hedge Coke January 16, 2023 Leave a comment

When someone is homophobic about a fiction, when someone is racist about a character, when someone is antisemitic about a comic, are they, or are they always that bigot? #Batman #Superman #PeppermintPatty #WinnieThePooh #TransSpiderMan

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Peekaboo Objectification: Blood Pack

Commentary, Featured, LGBTQ, Patricia HighsmashBy Travis Hedge Coke January 9, 2023 Leave a comment

How DC Comics’ Blood Pack explored reality tv through the superhero in 1995 via stuffies, gay magazines, coffee table books, bedroom peep cams & manufactured youth culture for the olds.

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Comfort Horror In/Out of Inland Empire

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke January 2, 2023 Leave a comment

Inland Empire is @LauraDern & @DAVID_LYNCH showing us the horror of believing you deserve violence done to you. The brutal power of illicit story. Of hotel room tv. Enforced guilt creating cycles, variations, cruelties, ghosts & a world in which we die.

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Things Entertainment Can Stop Doing Before 2023

Featured, LGBTQ, Patricia Highsmash, Regular ContentBy Travis Hedge Coke December 26, 2022 Leave a comment

Things we need no more, like celebrating abusers, the nebulously gay, edgelord satire, purity culture & how #BethBroderick #KateMcKinnon #JamesCoburn #ReservationDogs & #OurFlagMeansDeath get around them.

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PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Sensitivity, Tolerance, Equal Rights, The New Defenders

Commentary, Featured, LGBTQ, Patricia Highsmash, Regular ContentBy Travis Hedge Coke December 19, 2022 Leave a comment

Peter B. Gillis @JMDeMatteis @annienocenti @KevinNowlan & Janice Chiang made THE NEW DEFENDERS one of the most stylish, intelligent, socially-conscious & happening comics of the 1980s. I was a disabled, mixed, intersex kid. It changed & saved my life.

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The Two Year Horror – A Milligan/Larroca X-Men Run

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke December 12, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: For two years, @1PeterMilligan & @SalvadorLarroca made X-Men a psychosexual horror comic about colonialism, bigotry, self-doubt & space fungi. #XMen #MarvelComics

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A Binary Star: A Joan Jett Graphic Novel

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke December 5, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: @joanjett launched a revolution with the Blackhearts. Join @barbarakesel @wiktoriabeczek @CatStaggs et al they explore two of the Blackhearts earliest albums in a double-sided graphic novel in stories from @Z2comics!

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Jodi Picoult and Wonder Woman

Commentary, Featured, News, Patricia HighsmashBy Travis Hedge Coke November 28, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: In Love & Murder, @jodipicoult @TerryDodsonArt et al put #WonderWoman between her birthplace & her chosen homeland, between her mother & the Amazons and her boss & the United States! #DCComics

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The Blues Brothers Is For the Kids

Featured, Movies, Patricia HighsmashBy Travis Hedge Coke November 21, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: @dan_aykroyd’s #TheBluesBrothers is always for the kids, just kids from 7 to 97. From #SNL to the movies, albums, stage revues & the Original Blues Brothers Band!

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