Peekaboo Objectification: Blood Pack
How DC Comics’ Blood Pack explored reality tv through the superhero in 1995 via stuffies, gay magazines, coffee table books, bedroom peep cams & manufactured youth culture for the olds.
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Things Entertainment Can Stop Doing Before 2023
Things we need no more, like celebrating abusers, the nebulously gay, edgelord satire, purity culture & how #BethBroderick #KateMcKinnon #JamesCoburn #ReservationDogs & #OurFlagMeansDeath get around them.
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PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Sensitivity, Tolerance, Equal Rights, The New Defenders
Peter B. Gillis @JMDeMatteis @annienocenti @KevinNowlan & Janice Chiang made THE NEW DEFENDERS one of the most stylish, intelligent, socially-conscious & happening comics of the 1980s. I was a disabled, mixed, intersex kid. It changed & saved my life.
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Jodi Picoult and Wonder Woman
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: In Love & Murder, @jodipicoult @TerryDodsonArt et al put #WonderWoman between her birthplace & her chosen homeland, between her mother & the Amazons and her boss & the United States! #DCComics
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The Blues Brothers Is For the Kids
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: @dan_aykroyd’s #TheBluesBrothers is always for the kids, just kids from 7 to 97. From #SNL to the movies, albums, stage revues & the Original Blues Brothers Band!
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Dracula Ought to Be Weird: Lust for Dracula
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: #Dracula ought to be weird & that’s how Darian Caine plays the role opposite Erin Brown in Tony Marsiglia’s bizarre, queer, violent, tender movie, Lust for Dracula. #LustForDracula
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Katherine Bradford’s Superman
Not enough people know that @katherinebrad12 brings to #Superman a mutability well known to comics fans, but infrequently seen by museum audiences. A Superman of lines, motion, femininity, flight, eroticism & possibility.
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Elliptically Blunt Tod Goldberg
The stories of @todgoldberg are cities, worlds & moments, illustrating the breadth of human crime from murder to life.
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Five Ways to Read Final Crisis Pt. 5: Asterisms and Constellations!
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: What is Narrative Pointillism or Channel-Zapping? What makes a Crisis a Crisis? Wait, there were tons of Crises before and after the first one? How does @grantmorrison, @TheDougMahnke & @JG_JONESfanpage’s Final Crisis stack as a Crisis?
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Five Ways to Read Final Crisis Pt. 4: The Facts, Ma’am
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: In Five Ways to Read Final Crisis Pt. 4: The Facts, Ma’am we just read exactly what what @grantmorrison wrote, what @JG_JONESfanpage @TheDougMahnke & others drew! Only the literal truth, even if we have to make it up! #DCComics
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Five Ways to Read Final Crisis Pt. 3: Danny the Avenue
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Five Ways to Read Final Crisis: Danny the Avenue! Fairytales! Opera! Gematria! Let’s read sideways! Let’s go big & get weird! @grantmorrison @JG_JONESfanpage @TheDougMahnke #DCComics
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Five Ways to Read Final Crisis Pt. 2: Non-Morrison Geometry
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Five Ways to Read Final Crisis: Non-Morrison Geometry! The scariest way to read this is everything not written by @GrantMorrison! It’s Perez, Starlin, & Rucka time! Huntress! Red Lanterns! The Question! Superboy! Batwoman! #DCComics
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