Waiting for the Racism
Why do we read a comic, new or from 1906, worried something problematic will pop up? Why do we need to be cautious?
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That Comic You Like Has Bad Stuff Attached
You read a comic. You loved it. Five years later, you found out part that perplexed you at the time was a racist joke that was simply outside your awareness…
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If Fantastic Four Was an EC Comic
Marvel Action Hour Featuring the Fantastic Four, by Joey Cavalieri & Alcatena retold early adventures & turned them on their ear. Rough, haunting, cartooned, a classic EC horror in superhero clothes.
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A Jam Comic of Heroes and Legends
Heroes and Legends gathered classic and current talent to create adventures that ran the breadth of styles and the Marvel Universe! Marie Severin! Fabian Nicieza! Steve Ditko! Buscemas! Joe Sinnott! Spider-Man! The FF! Captain America! X-Men! Avengers!
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The Love Report
Maya and BeKa create, in The Love Report, a clearheaded and detail-packed brisk story of children in love, children not in love, and children figuring out what love is.
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Life, Politics, and Secret Avengers
Ed Brubaker & Mike Deodato introduced Secret Avengers to a post-post-9/11 audience as a way to process our genre & real life history; to make things palatable. To make espionage & war comics the way the MCU would come to make war movies.
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The Mighty Marvel Western in the 21st Century
Steve Englehart, Keith Giffen, Leonardo Manco, Federica Manfredi, John Ostrander, Joe R Lansdale revised the Marvel Comics western into a whole new game, not pulp, not slicks, not revisionist or retro. Dynamic. Dynamic as hell.
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Zenescope and Capsule Comfort
Is @Zenescope the heir to the EC Comics model, the Samuel Z Arkoff model, or the energies radiating from one of my students’ notebook margin doodles? What makes their comics a comfort? An impulse buy? A satiation?
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Our Trouble with Trouble
Why is Mark Millar, Rachel Dodson & Terry Dodson’s teenage pregnancy melodrama, Trouble, still so controversial amidst other Marvel Comics publications more salacious, more violent, more intentionally shocking?
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A Timeline of All-Star Batman
Frank Miller & Jim Lee create a sense of time in All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder to befuddle the most calculating fans, yet we will feel it more than we ever do the math.
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In the Omniversal Doghouse With The Dog Knight
Jeremy Whitley, Bre Indigo, Melissa Capriglione bring THE DOG KNIGHT! A wonderful new all-ages comic about school, life, dogs and justice! @jrome58 @breindigo_ @mcaprilioneart
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Movie Bob Dylan: Masked and Anonymous
Larry Charles and Bob Dylan bring a celebrity crew to a staged story of loss, grief, guilt, and futility with exciting musical interludes: Masked and Anonymous! About everything, about little, just about under two hours.
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