Writer of the Patricia Highsmash column. Former editor of Along the Chaparral, Future Earth Magazine & Platte Valley Review. Author of Us Living in Fictional Cosmogonies & There is Nothing Left to Say (On The Invisibles). Guest Presenter at Naropa University, University of California Riverside, and Harbin Institute. Former faculty, Shandong University. Director of short films, including low fruit.

Eumenides! Euripedes! Elektra!

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Elektra was brought back at the behest of a toy company. Mike Deodato and Peter Milligan are beloved comics talent, and Christie Scheele has always been under-appreciated as a great colorist and fantastic painter. It was 1997 and Marvel decided to launch its first Elektra ongoing series, its first solo series and some of the first work, at all, featuring the character without creator, Frank Miller, in tow.

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Honesty

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Comics are wonderfully suited to showing lies, misunderstandings, and individually held truths. A look at personal lies, systemic obfuscation, and good will conflation in Cheat, Female Furies, Mek and more, with attention to Gene Ha, Cecil Castellucci, Christine Norrie, Adriana Melo, Warren Ellis, Felicia Day, Bruce Willis, et al.

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