Stephanie Brown Saved Me
An in-depth look at DC Comics superheroine, Stephanie Brown, from being Spoiler to being Robin to being Batgirl and back, featuring new interviews with Alisa Kwitney and Bryan Q Miller.
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Batman RIP: A Near Perfect Batman Comic
A seven-part serial novel, six chapters and a prologue, Batman RIP is a passion play without a betrayer, a death of… story that does not kill the protagonist, a mystery that ends unsolved. It attacks the core family, brutality, politics, economics, and assumptions of Batman, when Dr Thomas Wayne comes home.
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Superfan Steve Chung
Talking The Flash, fandom, moms and good manners with superfan Steve Chung.
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Stop Worrying How Fast It Reads
Do some comics not take long enough to read? Do we not take enough time, reading a comic? Gekiga Time and Cinematic Time. Saito Tamaki. Gilles Deleuze. Feauturing examples from The Jughead Jones, The Dark Knight Returns, Cinderella Knight, Uncanny X-Men, and the styles of Alex Ross, Matt Baker, Jack Kirby, and Takashima Hiromi.
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A Black Mermaid on Vacation
Are we ready for a black mermaid in our entertainment? We have been in the past. Let’s look at 1943’s The Mermaid in Central Park with Mary Marvel!
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Out of the Closet and Into the Wardrobe
Exploring the effects of clothes & costumes on our understanding of gender, sexuality, and identity, and how our gender, sexuality, and identity helps us to understand, idiosyncratically, clothing and costumes in comics. With special attention to fantastic proxies and to the straights, cis, trans, queers, and transvestites in comics, making comics, and reading comics.
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I Don’t Need Another Issue
Many comics fans need a new issue every month. Many comics fans love stats and rigid continuity. They want collections and canons. But, to love comics, do you have to crave new successive issues, memorize numbers, file everything, then get furious at writers who don’t marry characters the way you wanted? What is it to love comics outside of serialization, characters outside of their histories?
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It Changes on Reread: Ian Edginton and X-Force
Ian Edginton, Whilce Portacio, Ariel Olivetti, Warren Ellis, Jorge Lucas, and Gerry Alanguilan turned X-Force into a farcical, loud, fashion-forward spyfy smash-up for fourteen months, and nobody was ready for it.
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Dis-Ease of Language: 20 Years of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Tempest, the final volume of Kevin O’Neill and Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a six-issue illustration of how language infects and affects us, a strange mix of how fiction and telling can harm us and indulgence in “harmful” representation as harmless fun.
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Catwoman is Not Catwoman in Under the Moon
Lauren Myracle, Jeremy Lawson, Isaac Goodhart, and Deron Bennett present a tale of an abused teenager making sense of the world by becoming a thief. A surprising look at misogyny, immaturity, homelessness, class and gender imbalances, written and drawn for a YA audience, but with value and excitement for all.
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Be Unstoppable, with Nadia van Dyne
Jeremy Whitley, Gurihiru, Elsa Charretier, and Megan Wilson’s The Unstoppable Wasp is a moving, caring, fun, sad, adventurous comic about superheroes, mental health, family, friendship, love, tacos stress, wrestling, trauma, and girls doing awesome science.
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Oldguy and Poem-Comics
Oldguy! The Mirror of Love! Nancy! Late Bloomer! Street Poet Ray! The merger of poetry and comics, with examples from the work of Tim Mayer, William Trowbridge, Alan Moore, Maré Odomo, José Villarrubia, Junko Hosizawa, and Michael Redmond.
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