Tag: Marvel Comics
A supporting actor in his own book: Reading the Essential Man-Thing
My friend Ross once described Man-Thing as the world’s most perfect supporting character. After reading Essential Man-Thing Vol. 1 (you can get many of the same stories in color in …
What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – August 2019
Yes, it’s a bit late. So don’t wait to read it!
“I didn’t know Future Man used a life battery!” Marvel Comics on Earth-616
Where DC Comics only occasionally showed us what the DCU’s Silver Age comics were like, Marvel wasted no time establishing Earth-616 had its own version of Marvel Comics, publishing their …
My late Fourth of July post: Captain America in the Age of Trump
What do you do with a symbol of America in an American era like the one we have now? I give Ta-Nehisi Coates credit for trying to tackle that question …
A product of its time, but not in a bad way: Skull the Slayer
Usually “a product of time” identifies books (or people) with unsavory qualities such as the antisemitism and racism in H. Rider Haggard’s The People of the Mist. While Skull the …
Politics in Comics
I see it more and more often these days: People complaining about politics in a creator’s stories. Usually, they’re offended because the creator’s politics don’t align with their own, but sometimes, they’re offended because there’s politics in there at all. It’s a dumb argument, because politics have always been a part of superhero comics.