Puns and Word-Os
Flesh Gordon. Lion-O. Water-O. Death sticks & blasters. From porn to Star Trek, Thundercats to X-Files, there are some simple lingual tricks to making an audience comfortable with unusual things.
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Monster Logic and the Creature Commandos
Creature Commandos is a viciously anti-war comic and a very silly monster farce by @JMDeMatteis, Pat Broderick & others. Why would the US military disguise damaged men as classic movie monsters to fight Nazis? Find out! #CreatureCommandos #DCComics
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Why Local Comic Shops Will Never Go Out of Style
Why Local Comic Shops Will Never Go Out of Style @gcccomics
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Dracula Ought to Be Weird: Mama Dracula
Louise Fletcher is MAMA DRACULA! A parodic, farcical, camp #queer comedy #horror cabaret as only a #Dracula could host for us! #LGBTQ
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When You Don’t Mind Spoilers
Do I not care about spoilers because of my disabilities? Socioeconomic status? Education? Childhood? Does it make me a good audience? Good critic? Or the worst?
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The Hero vs. The Savior
A look back at how SUPERMAN: SECRET ORIGIN (@GeoffJohns @1moreGaryFrank) provided the inspiration for Zack Snyder’s MAN OF STEEL, while depicting a vastly different interpretation of Superman. @DCComics #Superman
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Fandom and the Fear of Representation
When someone is homophobic about a fiction, when someone is racist about a character, when someone is antisemitic about a comic, are they, or are they always that bigot? #Batman #Superman #PeppermintPatty #WinnieThePooh #TransSpiderMan
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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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Comfort Horror In/Out of Inland Empire
Inland Empire is @LauraDern & @DAVID_LYNCH showing us the horror of believing you deserve violence done to you. The brutal power of illicit story. Of hotel room tv. Enforced guilt creating cycles, variations, cruelties, ghosts & a world in which we die.
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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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The Two Year Horror – A Milligan/Larroca X-Men Run
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: For two years, @1PeterMilligan & @SalvadorLarroca made X-Men a psychosexual horror comic about colonialism, bigotry, self-doubt & space fungi. #XMen #MarvelComics
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A Binary Star: A Joan Jett Graphic Novel
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: @joanjett launched a revolution with the Blackhearts. Join @barbarakesel @wiktoriabeczek @CatStaggs et al they explore two of the Blackhearts earliest albums in a double-sided graphic novel in stories from @Z2comics!
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