http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/1236/fixing-barbara-gordons-legs-the-politics-of-retconning-a-disability/ http://sequart.org/magazine/1236/fixing-barbara-gordons-legs-the-politics-of-retconning-a-disability/#comments Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:50:13 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=1236 What does it mean when you take the most successful disabled character in comics and reverse her disability? That’s what people are asking, in the wake of its revelation that the new Batgirl series will… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/1069/the-mighty-thor-the-frail-and-feeble-donald-blake-what-are-we-to-make-of-the-hero-his-alter-ego-in-the-mighty-thor-the-stone-men-from-saturn-from-august-1962/ http://sequart.org/magazine/1069/the-mighty-thor-the-frail-and-feeble-donald-blake-what-are-we-to-make-of-the-hero-his-alter-ego-in-the-mighty-thor-the-stone-men-from-saturn-from-august-1962/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 12:00:42 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=1069 What are we to make of the hero and his alter ego in “The Mighty Thor and the Stone Men from Saturn,” from August 1962? Nowadays we’d hope that Donald Blake would have been raised to… [more]]]> 1