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It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s a Superman origin story!

It’s a bird, it’s a plane…...

Man of Steel has its US theatre release today. It claims to be a fresh look at Superman as well as an origin story of sorts. In honor of this, today I’m...

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Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 4

Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and...

note on all the image scans: they are correct manga-style so they are read right to left Spend enough time doing critical readings of media and you come...

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Villain takeover at DC!

Villain takeover at DC!

No, I don’t mean Dan Didio with a fake mustache that he twirls diabolically. DC has released all of the solicits for their Villain Month in September,...

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Gender in Paradise

Gender in Paradise

There are a lot of details in Strangers in Paradise that add up to make it an excellent book. It’s written and drawn by Terry Moore; since it’s all...

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Not the Best time to be a Sidekick

Not the Best time to be a Sidekick

Super hero sidekicks almost have the same joke status nowadays as Star Trek’s Red Shirts. In a lot of ways they’re a relic from an old era...

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Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 3

Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and...

note on all the image scans: they are correct manga-style so they are read right to left Spend enough time doing critical readings of media and you come...

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New Image Series and One Awesome Surprise

New Image Series and One Awesome Surprise

The AMAZING Matt Fraction (see today’s post in which Kari explores his teamwork with Aja on Hawkeye) will be teaming up with Howard Chaykin for a...

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Art and the Feel of Hawkeye

Art and the Feel of Hawkeye

When I’m reading a story – in comics or otherwise – I do my best to notice and evaluate all of the elements that the creator or creators have included....

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Is the Era of the Short Batman Story Over?

Is the Era of the Short Batman Story Over?

It used to be the case that there were eight page Batman stories and one issue would contain a few stories. Marvel was the pioneer of having long story...

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Demon Knights: Seven Against the Dark (and also against bad representation)

Demon Knights: Seven Against the Dark (and...

I’m going to admit up front that I’m not reading too many things in the current DC universe. I have tried to get into a lot of things – God,...

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Little Girl Cosplaying as Stan Lee

Little Girl Cosplaying as Stan Lee

Saw this today in my feed reader and it was so amazing I had to post it right away.

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Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 2

Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and...

note on all the image scans: they are correct manga-style so they are read right to left Spend enough time doing critical readings of media and you come...

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