Captain Marvel & More Black Iron Man
Rhodey's armor allows him to literally don the guise of a successful white man, to "pass" in the world of (mostly) white superheroes.
View ArticleIt’s a Wonder, Wonder Woman
More than 40 years later, Wonder Woman still has to deal with the same masculine hostility.
View ArticleMarvel’s Illuminati – Responsible for both Jay-Z’s Success and the Infinity Gems
When superhero contingencies are indistinguishable from supervillain schemes.
View Article“Invisible (Watch)Men: The Impossibility of the Black Superhero”
Miles Morales or Trayvon Martin are more likely to be victim of a “heroic” vigilante than to be one.
View ArticleBlack Lightning Always Strikes Twice! – Double-Consciousness as a Super-Power.
Jefferson Pierce's “blackness” is explored in relation to his superheroic identity, but doesn't get anywhere.
View ArticleCaptain America: The Winter Soldier as Liberal Fantasy – A Review
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is part of the ideological state apparatus
View ArticleDays of Future Now: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part...
This is Part Two of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past.”
View ArticleImages for “Black Communities of the 30th Century: Racial Assimilation and...
Images for an essay published in the June 2014 issue of Apex
View Article“I’m Looking for a Weird Love, Baby. . .” – Romance Comics & the Strangeness...
The heteronormative values these romance comics reinforce are really friggin’ queer.
View ArticleImperfect Storm (Part Two): Exploring “Lifedeath II”
Part Two of Exploring Storm as a postcolonial figure.
View ArticlePower Pack Says Crack is Wack!
Marvel's kid superheroes in the Crack Era, need to learn to just say "No" to white privilege.
View ArticleYour Favorite Superhero Sucks (Review)
A voice in the wilderness crying out against superheroic hegemony.
View ArticleAlpha & Omega #10: Omega Without End
The not-so-final installment on the final installments of both versions of Omega the Unknown.
View ArticleUnstable Masks; Or, The Whiteness of the Superhero (a preview)
A guest post in the form of a preview of the forthcoming anthology, Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics.
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