

The Clock's Guiding Hands: Time and Morality for Doctor Manhattan
Chapters 4 and 9 of Watchmen interest me particularly, because it is here that Alan Moore provides readers with insight into Doctor...


A Finer Line Between Hero and Villain
Beginning now in earnest to read some of the early Marvel comics, I find it refreshing in how the heroes are more human than the DC...


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...


Wonder Woman and Sailor Moon: Sexual Empowerment vs. Fanservice
Reading the chapter “Wonder Woman: Bondage and Liberation” from Ben Saunders’ Do the Gods Wear Capes? made me think about whether or not...


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...


Storm: Community and Colonialism
I chose to follow Storm’s solo title for the floppy serial that I would be following for my blog. I picked up Storm #8 up last week, but...


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...


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...