It’s been a few weeks since the start of the Social Issues through Comic Books course. In its first module, Addiction, students were given tools to understand and recognize addiction so they could better identify addiction in the weekly readings. Weekly readings have included Buzzkill, Green Lantern V2 #85 & 86, Sex Criminals #1, and…
Webcomics Capsules: Superheroes and Feminists
Webcomics Capsules is all about short webcomics reviews—more like recommendations, actually. See what our writers are enjoying around the web, choose your favorites and get to reading! This edition has two of my favorite things: superheroes and feminism. Laugh with (at) Jean Grey and Scott Summers in Max Wittert’s parody, or the folks at The…
Keiron Gillen On the Treatment of Rape In His Alt-WW2 Comic Über
From our upcoming feature interview with Kieron Gillen: This is World War II, and there were over one million rapes in central Berlin, and the fact is this was just really how it is. I’ve never written a page more carefully than that third page, because this cannot be exploitative, this cannot be titillating. In…
News & Things: Serious business
Archie dies in July Seems the days are numbered for beloved character Archie Andrews. Archie Comics announced that his death with conclude the Life with Archie series. How the war on terror has changed comics Tom Risen claims that since 2001, superheroes in comics have taken a more global view which often involves questioning the U.S….
