Examining New X-Men Pt. 2: We Remember the Lies
Examining New X-Men Pt 2: We Remember the Lies. Why do we remember some lies as truths? W/ Grant Morrison, Magneto, Chris Bachalo, Wolverine, Cassandra Nova.
DetailsExamining New X-Men Pt 2: We Remember the Lies. Why do we remember some lies as truths? W/ Grant Morrison, Magneto, Chris Bachalo, Wolverine, Cassandra Nova.
DetailsA 20 year retrospective on Grant Morrison’s New X-Men. Pt 1: In 2000, The X-Men movie was the biggest thing in superhero flicks, so what were the comics doing just before New X-Men began?
DetailsCharlie Hebdo, Mike Diana, Bob Englehart, Der Stürmer, Norman Rockwell. How do we approach comics that offend us or that hurt others?
DetailsBefore worrying whether a sex scene contributes to plot or character, the X-Men, Colleen Coover, the Justice League, and Ohtomo Megane may help us decide what is a sex scene.
DetailsKia Asamiya’s Steam Detectives is a delightful manga that might be too childish for most adults and may be too adult for a lot of parents’ comfort.
DetailsIn 1997 Koichi Mashimo adapted Akihito Yoshitomi’s Eat-Man for television. It got surrealistic. It got symbolist. It got anti-war, anti-hypocrisy, anti-capitalist. It got weird and it got real.
DetailsBubblegum Crisis, considered a stereotypical and formative 80s anime, may still have some surprises & subtlety up its sleeve. What does a 30 year old show have to say now about homosexuality, class warfare, economics, women in tech, over-eroticization, and the human condition?
DetailsIs 1996 Fake, based on Sanami Matoh’s manga about a closeted gay police detective and his bisexual partner in the NYPD, the greatest comics-based movie of all time? It has murders, romance, betting, slapstick, and more romance. So, probably.
DetailsWhy did Silk fall flat for me before, but in Greg Pak & Nico Leon’s Agents of Atlas she is a complete and engaging human being?
DetailsBisexuality, asexuality, gender nonconforming in Archie comics without even looking. Betty and Veronica, Jughead, Archie, and the phantasmal nature of sexuality, gender, and social anticipation.
DetailsWalt Simonson’s The Judas Coin, with Lovern Kindzierski & John Workman is a rollickin’ trip through DCU history and future with solemn gladiators, viking princes, ex-slave pirates, good-time gamblers, horribly scarred thieves, and smiling green-skinned aliens.
DetailsPatty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984 has debuted! Buffeted by real world politics, 1980s nostalgia & a release schedule controlled by an international pandemic, I have some thoughts about it.
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