“What if everything the right thought about the left was real?” That’s the driving premise behind The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook, the latest from The Nib’s own Matt Lubchansky. To be honest, the premise puzzled me a little at first. On the one hand, I’m automatically a bit wary of anything that might end up being…
Should You Tell Their Story: The Old Guard and Cultural Representation
The popularity of The Old Guard’s original run and recent movie inspired an expansion of the comics series. Specifically, a new historical anthology. News of this dropped via Polygon and the series will explore the histories of these long lived heroes. Unfortunately, the portions revealed offer a distasteful appetizer.
Revenge is the Abyss that Stares Back in Violation (2020)
Content Warning: Discussions of sexual assault and graphic violence.
Xs and I-C-Ss: Comics and Comix
There’s something about “comix” that signals “I’m not going to like it”. I know it’s partly the kind of person who recommends “comix” but it’s also the kinds of works that label themselves “comix” in the 21st century. However, this gut reaction made me step back and think, what even are comix and why do…
Jim Balent’s Tarot and the Haunted Vagina of My Heart
Content Warning: This piece contains mature themes, nudity, and sexual content and is NSFW
Murderbot Doesn’t Love Parenting. Murderbot Just Wants to Watch Its Shows.
With the upcoming release of Fugitive Telemetry, the sixth book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells, I have been thinking about how Murderbot explores more and more of what it means to be a person in each book. Specifically, I’m thinking about the family relationships it encounters and participates in in Network Effect,…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Wild, Weird Writing: Charlotte Brontë, Welcome to Die
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. Brussels, 1892. In a second hand book stall, a professor finds the leather-bound manuscript of High Life in Verdopolis, a novella set in the fantastic kingdom of Glass Town imagined by…
Spacewarp, Shift and The 77: Reviving British Anthology Comics
The phrase “British comics” has, over recent decades, seen a quite drastic shift in meaning. For a long time, British comics were affordable entertainment that youngsters picked up at the newsagent with their pocket money, and which covered a variety of genres from knockabout comedy to swooning romance, sporting exploits to high-flying sci-fi. Today, however,…
[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…
One Issue, Many Bodies: Dissecting Dysphoria and Passing in New Mutants #15
Content Warnings: Transphobia, Trans-Medicalism, Dysphoria, intracommunity discourse
Star Wars: The Rise of Cade Skywalker
Disney Investor Day 2020 and earlier chatter promise that Disney will be feeding us Star Wars stories for a long time to go. For newer Star Wars fans and those who have not ventured outside the films, this might seem to be overwhelming overkill, but it’s really not new for Star Wars. As Wookieepedia can…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] She Who Must Be Obeyed: Wonder Woman’s Secret Origin as Victorian Villainess
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. Somewhere in a remote corner of the world is a land known to outsiders only in legend. It is a matriarchy, ruled for thousands of years by a queen who has…