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[Patreon Exclusive] 2022 Hugo Award Nominees for Best Graphic Story, Part One
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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Prepare Yourself Mutant: Memories of Neal Adams’ X-Men
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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] [NSFW] Fumetti Nightmares: Ulula the Werewolf Woman
Our Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. As a warning, this article is most certainly not safe for work. The comic discussed here includes explicit sex and violence, including a combination thereof that some readers may find uncomfortable or…
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Nightcrawler is a Sex-Positive Superhero. Here’s How—And Why It Matters
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. If you care about seeing inclusive sexiness in your stories, reading superhero comics can be challenging. And yet, I continue to love them, for reasons that are, ironically, directly related to…
[Patreon Exclusive] Jem & The Holograms And The Balancing Act of Multiple Identities
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Originally based on a line of dolls of the same name, the ’80s cartoon, Jem and the Holograms tells the story of a young businesswoman named Jerrica Benton who inherits…
[Patreon Exclusive] Gangland Dreamland: Batman in 2020
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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] 2021 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story Part 1
Since 2009 the Hugo Awards have had a category for Best Graphic Story. Although overshadowed to some extent by dedicated comic awards like the Eisners, this corner of the Hugos nonetheless remains a prominent honour in its field, with a handful of contenders and one winner chosen each year from the mass of published comics….
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] The Many Ages of DC Comics: A Sequel
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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Star Beasts and Spider-Gods: Doctor Who Comics of the Tom Baker Era
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. A science fiction series as long-running as Doctor Who could hardly avoid spawning its fair share of comics. By the same token, comics tying in with a science fiction series as…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Transforming the Narrative: An Analysis of The Transformers: The IDW Collection – Infiltration
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. After my dense commentary on the Megatron Origin story, it’s easy to believe that might be the majority of what comprises the first volume of the IDW Collection, but that’s far…
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Infinite Crisis: Fifteen Years Later
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of DC’s Infinite Crisis event, which itself was published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Crisis on Infinite Earths. That notorious series, published between…