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Proper Pronouns: How Wonder Woman Slipped Sexual Slavery, Sadism, and Homosexuality Past the Comics Code Authority

Gerard Waggett — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:51:23 +0000

The last few years have taught us the importance the LGBTQ+ community places upon personal pronouns. In 1969, Wonder Woman writer / penciller / editor Mike Sekowsky understood the value of pronouns when it came… [more]

Dracula, for the Mature Reader: How Marvel Built a ‘70s Horror Book Around a Victorian-Era Monster, Part 2

Gerard Waggett — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:00:12 +0000

On the 50th Anniversary of Tomb of Dracula, Gerard Waggett concludes his look back at the book, warts and all. [more]

Dracula, for the Mature Reader: How Marvel Built a ‘70s Horror Book Around a Victorian-Era Monster, Part 1

Gerard Waggett — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:00:06 +0000

On the 50th Anniversary of Tomb of Dracula, Gerard Waggett takes a look back at the book, warts and all. [more]

On the Origin of the Sexes War: Jamie Delano and John Higgins’ World Without End

Matthew Kirshenblatt — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:00:12 +0000

World Without End" title="On the Origin of the Sexes War: Jamie Delano and John Higgins’ World Without End" style="float:left;" />I found World Without End almost completely by accident, or rather, in a chain of events that led to a name and a title. It began when I finally read AARGH! for the first time.… [more]

Deconstruction of Male Duality in American Comic Books: Robert Kirkman’s Invincible

Rafael Alves Azevedo — Mon, 11 May 2015 11:00:18 +0000

Invincible" title="Deconstruction of Male Duality in American Comic Books: Robert Kirkman’s Invincible" style="float:left;" />***Editors Note: Following articles contains graphic imagery originally featured in Invincible #110. According to Judith Butler, gender is not a static, stable, and “natural” condition someone is born with, but rather a socially constructed concept… [more]

Brian’s Comic Book Grab Bag: Gen13 Annual 2000

Stuart Warren — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:00:50 +0000

Gen13 Annual 2000" title="Brian’s Comic Book Grab Bag: Gen13 Annual 2000" style="float:left;" />Last Christmas my brother gave me a booster pack of random, non-sequential issues from a variety of popular comic book titles that syndicated in the late eighties to mid nineties. The nineties was a time… [more]

Optimus Prime, Pedophile

Julian Darius — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:00:43 +0000

Did you know that the beloved leader of the Autobots had a fetish for underage girls? Or that a Megatron look-alike not only shared the same fetish, but repeatedly tried to rape those girls? Or that… [more]

Steel Sinews: Sex and the Super-Hero

Emmet O'Cuana — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:00:54 +0000

There’s a moment in Cable and X-Force #5 where Dennis Hopeless’s script introduces some foreplay between mutants Colossus and Domino. Poor Piotr Rasputin has been experiencing some control issues recently as a result of being… [more]

Sex Criminals #1-3 Review

Ian Dawe — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:00:53 +0000

Sex Criminals #1-3 Review" title="Sex Criminals #1-3 Review" style="float:left;" />Sex Criminals, by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky and published by Image Comics, is one of the most imaginative, intelligent, honest, and warmly funny comic books I’ve read in some time. It starts off with… [more]

The Bechdel Test and a Sexy Lamp: Detecting Gender Bias and Stereotypes in Mainstream Comics

Forrest Helvie — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:00:43 +0000

Recently, the Swedish Film Institute began sponsoring a movement spearheaded by a number of theaters who are now making use of the “Bechdel Test” to evaluate their films in order to determine the extent of… [more]

Making a Dirty Breast of the Matter

Gene Phillips — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:00:03 +0000

In “Pulp Friction” I addressed the logical problems inherent in the position of those fans I called “anti-pulpsters,” who oppose, in one way or another, the presence of extravagant sensationalism in superhero comic books. As… [more]

How Could They Do That?: Understanding Scott Lobdell and the New Comics Criticism

Julian Darius — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:00:57 +0000

Do That?: Understanding Scott Lobdell and the New Comics Criticism" title="How Could They Do That?: Understanding Scott Lobdell and the New Comics Criticism" style="float:left;" />I’m quite certain writer Scott Lobdell, writer of Red Hood and the Outlaws, didn’t intend to make Starfire in any way diminishing of women. I know this because it’s leaked that DC was concerned, prior… [more]

Sexism, Sexuality, and the DC Relaunch

Julian Darius — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:00:54 +0000

Last week’s DC relaunch offerings didn’t prompt much serious debate over which title was the best, but they launched a flurry of reactions against their portrayal of women. But first, a warning: my goal here… [more]

Exposing Triple-D Tits: Sexuality and the Comic Book

Kevin Thurman — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:00:04 +0000

There is no limit to what can be said about sex. Such a simple, almost industrial an act, yet mind boggling broad in its implications. The wealth of films, TV shows, and countless songs about… [more]

Sex and “The Man who Has Everything”

Julian Darius — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:00:37 +0000

Long before Alan Moore delved into literary pornography with Lost Girls, he was infusing his work with a broad understanding of human sexuality as natural. And this wasn’t limited to auteur projects like Lost Girls… [more]

I’m Gonna Sex You Up! (or, Why Wonder Girl Isn’t Allowed Out Any More)

Brian Graiser — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:46:06 +0000

Aloha, my tactless brethren, and welcome to another installment of Tact is for the Weak, the article that has naked pictures of all those other articles from that one really crazy party back in January!… [more]