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How do you solve a problem like Diana?

All right, so everybody and his dog thinks Wonder Woman needs fixing. But why does Wonder Woman “need” fixing?

50 Million Jaime Fans Can’t Be Wrong

An explanation of why they can’t.

Garth Ennis: Anti-Messiah, or just a very naughty boy?

The reactionary sexual morality of Garth Ennis.

Probably the most fatuous thing you will read about Before Watchmen, at least for today

Who lifts the lifters?

The Wire Roundtable: Cherchez la femme

The Wire is singularly unconcerned with how women fare in these institutions, the fates they face, the options open to them.

Visual Aliens Part II

In the first part of this post, I introduced the notion of a visual alien, an isolated unit which is drawn in a markedly different visual style from its surrounding. I also postulated that there were two basic reasons to include a visual alien: Distinctness (to underline the alien’s difference from everything else) and Virtuosity [...]