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
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
DetailsLouise Fletcher is MAMA DRACULA! A parodic, farcical, camp #queer comedy #horror cabaret as only a #Dracula could host for us! #LGBTQ
DetailsDo 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?
DetailsWhen 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
DetailsHow 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.
DetailsInland 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.
DetailsThings we need no more, like celebrating abusers, the nebulously gay, edgelord satire, purity culture & how #BethBroderick #KateMcKinnon #JamesCoburn #ReservationDogs & #OurFlagMeansDeath get around them.
DetailsPeter 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.
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: For two years, @1PeterMilligan & @SalvadorLarroca made X-Men a psychosexual horror comic about colonialism, bigotry, self-doubt & space fungi. #XMen #MarvelComics
DetailsPATRICIA 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!
DetailsPATRICIA 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
DetailsPATRICIA 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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