Music to My Ears
I recently watched Holy Musical B@man!, a musical produced by Team Starkid, who you may know from their past productions A Very Potter...
Batman, the Joker, and Homophobia
I believe that the most important take away of Andy Medhurst’s essay, “Batman, Deviance and Camp,” is the assertion that there is no...
The Sad Death of Rachel Dawes
Christopher Nolan drew, quite a bit, on Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, when directing his film The Dark Knight. However, one...
Bat-vertising Wasn't Always a Thing?
I struggled a little with what I wanted to say about Eileen Meehan’s essay, “Holy Commodity Fetish, Batman!: The Political Economy of a...
The Talking Heads
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is by far the darkest comic book that I’ve read in class thus far. Pitting an aged Batman against...
Brooker's Basic Batman
Reading Will Brooker’s “1939-1945: Origins and Wartime,” I found it interesting when he suggested that Batman at his core has changed...
"See? I'm not Gay! I like Catwomen!"
I wrote my original post on the differences between Batman and Superman, because I believe the topic merits attention when navigating a...
God and Man, Superman and Batman
(Just a note: I was meant to write about All-Star Superman last week, but due to an issue in shipping, I was unable to receive it. Amazon...
Tropes from the Beginning
Reading the early comics anthologized in Supermen! I found it intriguing to see all the tropes that were present in comic books before...
