Talia al Ghul is a master criminal, a lethal genius, a great love & opponent of the Batman. She has toppled empires and presidents & for a brief moment owned the Earth. How do orientalism, sexism & classism make her so powerful & so hard for readers to grapple with?
DetailsMark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks is an epistolary novel and a faux document comic about the sins of America and the secrets of a small town. Based on his multimedia property with David Lynch, Frost covers everything in his history from Jeremiah Johnson to UFOs and Body Heat.
DetailsIn 1971, Mike Sekowsky introduced Tracey Thompson and Betsy, a duo who break into haunted houses and get in fights with biker gangs. And, after two appearances, they were never heard from again.
DetailsChiho Saito and Be-PaPas’ Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution revisits characters from a teenage drama in their thirties.
DetailsJustice League vs madness, floods, and misremembering! D Curtis Johnson, Dave Eaglesham, et al, remind the JLA of Moon Maiden, a superhero long forgotten in a Crisis. But, what is a Crisis, and whose Crisis is this?
DetailsGrant Morrison & Jim Lee teach us how to maybe defeat fascism in their chapter of The Multiversity, and how to better interpret everything from Alfred Tennyson to William Roscoe Thayer and Deanne Stillman.
DetailsJack Kirby & Stan Lee did not design the Fantastic Four to be a nuclear family. They are a found family, adoptive, and better for it.
DetailsWriter of The Female Furies, The Plain Janes, and most recently, DC’s Batgirl, Cecil Castellucci has a range, intensity, and voice distinctly her own.
DetailsThe Invisibles’ Ragged Robin, created by Grant Morrison, as fictive drag, male gaze construct, and autonomous woman?
DetailsThe real Batman is the Batman we meet along the way in Grant Morrison, Adam Kubert, Frank Quitely’s Time and the Batman.
DetailsNew Romancer, Enigma, and X-Statix writer Peter Milligan answers questions and talks misinterpretation, comics, Chris Claremont, x-books, learning German and Rainer Maria Rilke.
DetailsTom DeFalco and Paul Ryan’s five year run on Fantastic Four was nostalgic, forward-looking, brash, caring, and fun!
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