

A Defense of Jean Grey's Death
X-Men is one of my favorite teams of superheroes. I’m sure that much is obvious from my blog’s design. I’m sure it’s equally obvious that...
Comic Shops: Big, Little, and Just Right
Earth-2 Northridge is the comic book shop that I most frequently go to. It’s the one I’ve been going to get my Storm comics as well as a...


Heroic Beauty
Again, I refer back to Wonder Woman. Compared to the male superheroes of her time, an inordinate amount of time is spent describing...


Super-Counselling Needed for Super-Couple
(Sorry, Marvel Unlimited was not cooperating, so only a couple screencaps). After the awesome presence of Wonder Woman, Susan...


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...


Initial Reaction to Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is one of my absolute favorite superheroes ever. She’s the first I read about when I first began reading comics. Like I like...


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...