What’s up, Marvel Zombies? It’s Mighty Marvel Monday, and we have a multitude of movie…morsels (yeah, I don’t know either) for you! For the record: I will never, ever get tired of forcing a totally cheeseball alliteration in this intro paragraph. Deal with it. Anyone reading the current Moon Knight series from Warren Ellis and…
Stories from Comics Academe: The Culture of Production in Marvel’s Media Franchises
On May 1, 2014, I attended Derek Johnson’s lecture, “My Hero?: The Practices and Politics of Sharing Worlds in Marvel’s Media Franchises” presented by the University of California at Irvine Humanities Collective. Johnson is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches identity and hierarchy in the production of…
Introducing Throwing Popcorn
When I gave birth, I immediately read up on baby brains. I read everything from T. Berry Brazelton’s The Earliest Relationship to Pamela Druckerman’s Bringing Up Bebe to prepare for parenthood. While many ideas on child development were held constant by all experts, one rule was set in stone: exposing kids under the age of two…
Winners of the Xbox 360 Awards
Looking for something new to try? Xbox held their first Xbox 360 Game Awards, polling gamers from all over the world over the past few weeks. The results have been counted and winners announced.