Beauty And The Beast (1987): Once Upon A Time Is Now
1987’s TV series Beauty And The Beast teaches us that love, in it’s deepest, purest sense, exists. And that Once Upon A Time is Now!
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For the Love of Love: The Revealing Nature of Superhero Romance
Superheroes allow us to see what we care about most in the world. They help us come to terms with the human experience and the results are in: the human experience is love.
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Heroes Reborn Pt. 2: Iron Man
Heroes Reborn Iron Man, launched by Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Scott Lobdell, is a ground-up 1990s reimagining that ran from 1996-97.
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Heroes Reborn Pt. 1: Did We Need This?
Heroes Reborn was an imprint helmed by Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld, reinventing Marvel superheroes like Captain America and the Fantastic Four for the 1990s. Did they need reinventing?
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The New Yorker Cartoon Takeover
December 2019, The New Yorker revises its all-comics issue for a new era, as the Cartoon Takeover!
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Garth Ennis and Men’s Blind Support of Men
A Train Called Love, Garth Ennis, Mark Dos Santos, a scene of women with garbage boyfriends, the sexist response from “comics fans.”
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A Joye Hummel Wonder Woman
Sensation Comics with fantastic Wildcat and Little Boy Blue comics and a Wonder Woman by Joye Hummel, the first woman to write the character.
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Paul Cornell, Demon Knights, Trans Treatment
Paul Cornell turned trans people not passing into a joke every issue of Demon Knights. We, readers, have to deal with that without unintentional fallout, without unintended insult. Wee! us.
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Sailor Moon Says Don’t Fear Changing Things
Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon as been around almost 30 years and its adaptations are always their own animal. This is good.
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The Brilliance Behind Masks in HBO’s Watchmen
During its original run, DC’s Watchmen famously proposed the idea that the people behind the mask were far from heroes. True to its text, HBO’s Watchmen masterfully explores that very same theme.
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The Murder Tourists and Oscar Zarate
Oscar Zarate and Alan Moore’s I Keep Coming Back is a horror story in which a fairly normal man just has a drink and watches strippers. Expressive, desperate art bringing us low-blow misogyny and a walk.
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Please Stand By: The Evolution of TV Super Heroes-1980’s Part 2
Believe it or not I’m walking on air. I never thought I could feel so free.
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