Commentary Deconstructing Comics: Why Deadpool is Different Aug 30, 2013 Kari Woodrow There’s no one set format in which all comics are written. Things vary – sometimes wildly – from writer to…
Commentary Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 8 Aug 28, 2013 Eric Mesa note on all the image scans: they are correct manga-style so they are read right to left Spend enough time…
News Baltimore Comic-Con is Almost Here! Aug 23, 2013 Eric Mesa Unfortunately, I won’t be able to go to Baltimore Comic-Con this year because of family commitments, but I had a…
Commentary Pregaming Infinity Aug 23, 2013 Teresa March Age of Ultron is barely over, but Marvel is already rolling out Infinity, which is the latest major event from…
Commentary Expectations and Reality: Batman Incorporated Aug 16, 2013 Kari Woodrow Even if you don’t read DC comics or are uninterested in the Batman family, there’s a good chance that you’ve…
Commentary Who are comics for? Aug 14, 2013 Eric Mesa This week I came across the following quote from a Paul Pope article: Asked by Yang if he had tried…
Commentary To Kill or Not to Kill: Daredevil’s Heroic Struggle Aug 9, 2013 Teresa March Should a superhero kill? What happens if he does? Those are questions that are constantly being asked by creators and…
Commentary Revisiting the meaning of Asylum Aug 7, 2013 Eric Mesa Batman Annual Vol 2 #2 tackles two very interesting and interrelated topics concerning the DC Universe. The main premise of…
Commentary Batman and the Batgirls (or, Bat Family Matters Redux) Aug 2, 2013 Kari Woodrow Earlier this week, Eric took a look at how Bruce Wayne interacts with his sons and with Barbara Gordon. Today…
Deconstructing Comics: Why Deadpool is Different
There’s no one set format in which all comics are written. Things vary – sometimes wildly – from writer to…
Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 8
note on all the image scans: they are correct manga-style so they are read right to left Spend enough time…
Baltimore Comic-Con is Almost Here!
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to go to Baltimore Comic-Con this year because of family commitments, but I had a…
Pregaming Infinity
Age of Ultron is barely over, but Marvel is already rolling out Infinity, which is the latest major event from…
Expectations and Reality: Batman Incorporated
Even if you don’t read DC comics or are uninterested in the Batman family, there’s a good chance that you’ve…
Who are comics for?
This week I came across the following quote from a Paul Pope article: Asked by Yang if he had tried…
To Kill or Not to Kill: Daredevil’s Heroic Struggle
Should a superhero kill? What happens if he does? Those are questions that are constantly being asked by creators and…
Revisiting the meaning of Asylum
Batman Annual Vol 2 #2 tackles two very interesting and interrelated topics concerning the DC Universe. The main premise of…
Batman and the Batgirls (or, Bat Family Matters Redux)
Earlier this week, Eric took a look at how Bruce Wayne interacts with his sons and with Barbara Gordon. Today…