On HU We started the week with some Mary Sue links by Vom Marlowe. I had another Swamp Thing post about gender and hawk women. Suat had a lovely tribute to one of Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey stories. We highlighted some comments on the Swamp Thing roundtable from Andrei Molotiu, Charles Reece, and EricB. I [...]
I’m pleased to announce that next month HU will be adding four (count ‘em, four!) new monthly columnists to our regular roster of bloggers. Our new columnists are: Erica Friedman of Okazu. Matthias Wivel of the Metabunker. Domingos Isabelinho of The Crib Sheet. And our own kinukitty who will be moving from blogger to columnist. [...]
“Kingyo Used Books” is the heartwarming tale of a guy who finds a used book shop that sells manga and it reignites his faith in manga which is also his faith in life. And, of course, you’re reading a manga too, and it’s a manga about how great it is that you’re reading manga, which [...]
The Swamp Thing roundtable has shambled along a bit longer than I expected, and we’re still not necessarily done. But while we’re waiting for a last post I thought I’d pull some passing thought-bubbles from the muck: Andrei Molotiu: if issue 20 is damage control, it’s excellent damage control, taking a narrative that had rolled [...]
Many will find this tale shallow, inconsequential or sentimental but it captivated me the first time I read it. Perhaps it appealed to my sense of childhood anguish.
In his post, Eric argued that Moore’s Swamp Thing is feminist, both because it presents Abby as a strong, heroic figure and because it critiques Swamp Thing’s own abusive use of patriarchal power. I agree with Eric that power and gender are both important themes in the Swamp Thing series. I’m less certain that Moore [...]
Back when we were discussing the niceness of manga critics, someone asked me about some of the other critics that I was reading. I mentioned a few suggestions, but the idea stuck in my mind. The critics and critical circles that seem everyday normal to me (everybody reads coffeeandink, right?) aren’t that familiar or known [...]
Darwyn Cook relegates Wonder Woman to helpmate in Superman’s psychodrama.
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