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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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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Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Bob Dylan, with The Philosophy of Modern Song, merges prose & photo-essay in a rollickin’ exploration of the philosophy and silliness in, around, about and abutting the last 100 years of song. @bobdylan
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SOLDIER STORIES: We Can Never Forget Their Stories
SOLDIER STORIES is a heartfelt journey of veterans told by veterans, told with passion and nuance as only can be told by someone who’s been there. @kpsmartypants @ImageComics @USVAA @TopCow #VeteransDay #ImageComics
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Throwback Thursday: JLA/JSA Virtue & Vice: Third Eye of the Tiger…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: As we stay devastated over the loss of #CarlosPacheco, we look in on one of his career highs with this cover for JLA/JSA: VIETUE AND VICE. Rest in Power. #JSA #JLA
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Alternate Realities
Tired of every story being an alternate reality, a multiverse? They all always were. Get with it! #SpiderVerse #SuperSmashBros #VladimirNabokov #SakuraWars #AKnightsTale #WilliamShakespeare
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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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