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Moby vs. Hill
by Noah Berlatsky
Two types of male genre literature: dick and fanny.
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Voices From the Archive: Robert Boyd on TCJ and the Mainstream
by Noah Berlatsky
TCJ and superheroes; why they didn’t mix.
Ancient Zen Battle
by Noah Berlatsky
Alan Watts’ Way of Zen vs. Eugene Herrigel’s Zen and the Art of Archery
Jerusalem, Nothing Special
by Ng Suat Tong
Jerusalem is the playground viewed absentmindedly for a moment through your house window, as innocuous as people dying on a television screen.
Voices from the Archive: The Comic That Broke Tucker Stone’s Heart
by Noah Berlatsky
Yes, even critics weep.
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Moby vs. Hill
by Noah Berlatsky
Two types of male genre literature: dick and fanny.
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Voices From the Archive: Robert Boyd on TCJ and the Mainstream
by Noah Berlatsky
TCJ and superheroes; why they didn’t mix.
Ancient Zen Battle
by Noah Berlatsky
Alan Watts’ Way of Zen vs. Eugene Herrigel’s Zen and the Art of Archery
Jerusalem, Nothing Special
by Ng Suat Tong
Jerusalem is the playground viewed absentmindedly for a moment through your house window, as innocuous as people dying on a television screen.
Voices from the Archive: The Comic That Broke Tucker Stone’s Heart
by Noah Berlatsky
Yes, even critics weep.
Columns
Learning to Care at the Feet of Maurice Sendak
by Erica Friedman
You’d think that Where the Wild Things Are was Sendak’s greatest work. Maybe it is, I don’t know…and I don’t care.
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Monthly Stumblings # 15: John Porcellino
by Domingos Isabelinho
There’s a low-key sweet, quiet, melancholic visual music playing in Porcellino’s backgrounds. As he put it, better than I ever could, it’s: “A really simple grace.” A Schulzian ode to suburbia…
The Big and Small of Fandom
by Erica Friedman
From the enormous Comiket in Tokyo to the tiny Yaycon in the Netherlands
Gluey Tart: I Give to You
by kinukitty
“The world is rejecting me.” But at least there are cat reaction shots.
Monthly Stumblings # 14: Tim Gaze
by Domingos Isabelinho
From page to page of 100 Scenes we witness a restless, lively world. It’s like a godless theogony in which trial and error coexist.
Comics I Like Despite Themselves
by Erica Friedman
A brief look into the longboxes of Erica Friedman’s mind, to pull out the best and worst comics she enjoyed as a child.
Article
Collage Theatre, Copyright, and the Curious Case of Anne Frank Superstar
by Sean Michael Robinson
Who owns Anne Frank’s words? Why shouldn’t it be Karen Carpenter?
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Wonder Woman: It’s In Her DNA
by Kelly Thompson
The core of the Diana I have come to love in recent years washere, in full and intact.
How do you solve a problem like Diana?
by Jones, one of the Jones boys
All right, so everybody and his dog thinks Wonder Woman needs fixing. But why does Wonder Woman “need” fixing?
Re-Inventing Wonder Woman — Again!
by Trina Robbins
When the almost 100% male writers Wonder Woman has had get their hands on her, they just can’t wait to re-invent her.
I For One Welcome Our New Superhero Overlords
by Alex Buchet
The Avengers is the crack cocaine of superhero movies. It will stimulate the comics fan into a near-fatal geekasm.
Dystopian Fashion
by Lindsey Bahr
Gattaca, Hunger Games, and how to be well-dressed for the coming totalitarian nightmare
Roundtables
A Peter that Never Existed
by Derik Badman
Derik rambles on about the style of Harry Peter.
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Wonder Woman and the Space Crocs of Nikszkelion!
by vommarlowe
A Marston/Peter fan comic, featuring space crocodiles
Loving Authority: Some Thoughts On Wonder Woman #28
by Ben Saunders
Bondage and empowerment cannot be disentangled in Marston’s imagination.
Wonder Woman vs. Wonder Woman
by Sharon Marcus
It’s her virtue that gets me down, just as her good deeds land her in aircrafts that plummet and boats that sink.
William Marston on Sorority Baby Parties
by Noah Berlatsky
The creator of Wonder Woman describes his scientific observations of sorority initiation rites
Vom Marlowe on Wonder Woman, Bondage, and Princess Leia
by Noah Berlatsky
Wonder Woman is awesome because being female is awesome.
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Collage Theatre, Copyright, and the Curious Case of Anne Frank Superstar
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Wonder Woman and the Space Crocs of Nikszkelion!
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Bound to End: Wonder Woman #28 Index and Introduction
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An index to the roundtable on the final Marston/Peter Wonder Woman
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Monthly Stumblings # 15: John Porcellino
By Domingos Isabelinho
There’s a low-key sweet, quiet, melancholic visual music playing in Porcellino’s backgrounds. As he put it, better than I ever could, it’s: “A really simple grace.” A Schulzian ode to suburbia…
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Muck-Encrusted Mockery of a Roundtable: Liberty, Fecundity, Perversity
by Caro
Swamp Thing is the uber-incarnation of “wallowing in familiar tropes.”
