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

The Fourth World vi: Make of This What You Will

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke June 20, 2022 Leave a comment

Art, kitsch, entertainment & fun. For betterment & guilty pleasure. The good, bad & corrective Jack Kirby’s New Gods, Mr Miracle, Forever People, Fourth World & the value of everything in a comic book. #PatriciaHighsmash #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies

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The Rare Smells of P-Funk

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke June 13, 2022 Leave a comment

Parliament-Funkadelic, Eddie Hazel @george_clinton, Pedro Bell, Sly Stone @Bootsy_Collins, Chaka Khan, Robert and Ronald Bell, Overton Loyd @JunieMorrison James Brown & the funk sound and ethos! #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash

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The Fourth World v: Play

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke June 6, 2022 Leave a comment

The quest, the pilgrimage, the experiential and survivance narrative in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World. Physical comedy, absurdism, satire, sorrow, social realism with Orion, Superman & Darkseid.

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The Winter Journey & Leiji Matsumoto

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke May 30, 2022 Leave a comment

Buoyed by Arthur Schopenhauer, Miyako Maki, Rintaro, Herman Hesse, Franz Schubert, the kairological cyclic cosmogony of Leiji Matsumoto. #CaptainHarlock #Emeraldas #Maetel #GalaxyExpress999 #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies

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The Fourth World iv: Want

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke May 23, 2022 Leave a comment

Jack Kirby explored desire in Mr Miracle, hunger in New Gods, want in Jimmy Olsen. What is it to want? To be consumed with, controlled by, or to escape wants? #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash

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Toni Morrison/Vladimir Nabokov

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke May 16, 2022 Leave a comment

#UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies covers many beloved fictive universes & name creators, but approaching Toni Morrison? Vladimir Nabokov? Mary Lambert? Octavia Butler? Princess Diaries? A Different World? Doc McStuffins? Do our biases guide or only misguide?

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Twin Peaks and the Meal

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke May 9, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: @mfrost11 @DAVID_LYNCH @LeslilinkaG @Kyle_MacLachlan put together the mixed box of jigsaw pieces & old saws #TwinPeaks. We make a meal of it. #PatriciaHighsmash #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogenies

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The Fourth World iii: Sociological Being

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke May 2, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: The sociopolitical concerns of @JackKirby’s #FourthWorld comics are vibrant & necessary today. #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogenties #patriciahighsmash

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Time and the Savage Dragon

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke April 25, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: 30 years of aging characters in real time has affected @ErikJLarsen’s #SavageDragon, its audiences, its author & the minor panic attack I have each time something bad might happen to a totally fictional person I love. #PatriciaHighsmash

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The Fourth World ii: Resonance

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke April 18, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: In New Gods, Forever People, Mr. Miracle, #Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, @JackKirby reached out to us, spoke to us, showed us. #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke April 11, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Tailored dreams. Genderqueer #Beetlejuice. #Godzilla vs Reality. What #NeonGenesisEvangelion & Hideaki Anno are really about & how it sells merchandise. #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash

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The Fourth World i: Symbolism

Commentary, NewsBy Travis Hedge Coke April 4, 2022 Leave a comment

PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Poetic, cosmic, philosophical, @JackKirby’s #FourthWorld comics introduced #Darkseid, Big Barda, Dan Turpin & taught generations to look for all relevant meaning. #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash

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