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Miracleman, Chapter 8: The Flashback Pages
We’ve begun discussing chapter eight (parts one, two, three, and four) of Alan Moore’s Miracleman, illustrated by Alan Davis. Today, we continue our exploration of that chapter.
Diagram for Delinquents Update #26: We Just Don’t Know
As previously mentioned, one particular source will be a sort of “star” in our documentary. That source is the transcript and recording of the Hearings Before The Subcommittee To Investigate Juvenile Delinquency Of The Committee… [more]
Critiquing the Robins of the New 52
It’s Saturday, Halloween weekend in New York City, and I’ve elected to stay inside all day and write about super-heroes.
Three Surrogate Wise Men: The Father Figures of the Batman
Many of our comic book heroes are orphans.
Fall of the Spot; Rise of Coyote
Spot. The Spot.
The Older Generation’s Farewell: The Hunger Dogs (Part 3)
As we have seen, in The Hunger Dogs, the graphic novel in which Jack Kirby resolved his “Fourth World” saga, Kirby’s optimistic vision of the early 1970s turned dark and ominous.
On The James Bond Omnibus Volume 004, by Jim Lawrence and Yaroslav Horak
Did we really used to take this pretty much for granted? In what was considered a respectable, family newspaper? It seems absurd now.
Miracleman, Chapter 8: Introducing Big Ben
We’ve begun discussing chapter eight (parts one, two, and three) of Alan Moore’s Miracleman, illustrated by Alan Davis. Today, we continue our exploration of that chapter. (We’ve also previously introduced Miracleman and discussed chapters one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, as well… [more]
Diagram for Delinquents Update #25: The Wild Spree of the Laughing Sadist
There is, has been, and will always be one driving debate within media studies: How does media affect society? The question of does media affect society is certainly answered: Yes. How, is another story. The… [more]
The New 52: A Year in Review
When I opened Action Comics #1 and saw Superman, I was stunned.
Who’s Your Daddy: Examining the Parental Relationship Between Bruce and Damian Wayne
Very few of our comic book heroes have real biological families.
Modular Narrative and Seven Soldiers of Victory
As near as I can tell, this is all Grant Morrison’s fault.
“Love and Death”: Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing, Issue #29
Saga of the Swamp Thing #29 “Love and Death” Cover date: October 1984. Writer: Alan Moore. Artists: Stephen Bissette & John Totleben. Letterer: John Costanza. Colorist: Tatjana Wood. Editor: Karen Berger.
On Goliath by Tom Gauld
We all know how the story ends, of course, and as soon as Tom Gauld introduces us to his own take on the Philistine giant, we can guess much of what the route to his… [more]
Miracleman, Chapter 8: Rocket Launchers, Flamethrowers, and Racism
We’ve begun discussing chapter eight (parts one and two) of Alan Moore’s Miracleman, illustrated by Alan Davis. Today, we continue our exploration of that chapter. (We’ve previously introduced Miracleman and discussed chapters one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, as well as… [more]
Diagram for Delinquents Update #24: To Fear, or Not to Fear, That is the Question
In celebration of Halloween, this blog focuses on fear. In the ’40s and ’50s, fear was abound. We had just come out of a devastating economic and social crisis, then we entered another world war,… [more]
Miracleman, Chapter 8: Two Ninja Vs. Superman
We’ve begun discussing chapter eight of Alan Moore’s Miracleman, illustrated by Alan Davis. Today, we continue our exploration of that chapter. (We’ve previously introduced Miracleman and discussed chapters one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, as well as the interlude “The… [more]
The Trouble With a Mask
“The trouble with a mask is it never changes.” – Charles Bukowski
Oh, Brother, I Hate Your Guts: The Use of the Brother Versus Brother Motif in Comics
Comic books, like all other forms of literary mediums, use a few different literary devices to stimulate our interest.
Archer Archetype
On October 10, American audiences were introduced to the newest attempt to bring super-heroes to television in the form of the CW’s Arrow.
On Best of Enemies by Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B.
There are all too few moments when it’s as easy to adore Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B’s Best Of Enemies as it is to admire it.
Miracleman, Chapter 8: “Out of the Dark”
We’ve previously introduced Miracleman and discussed chapters one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, as well as the interlude “The Yesterday Gambit.” We now continue our examination with chapter eight of this celebrated but long-unavailable series, written by Alan Moore and… [more]
On the First Year of Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis’ Justice League International (Part 2)
We previously examined the first four issues of Giffen and DeMatteis’ seminal Justice League from 1987-1988. Today, we conclude our examination of that title’s first year, which works as its own unit.
Young Romance
If there’s been one thing on my mind lately, it’s love.
X-Men: Protecting a World that Makes Them Irrelevant
“Protecting a world that hates and fears them.”