Gene Yang's Shadow Hero depicts the life of a Chinese immigrant offspring whose Chinese spirit ables him to deflect bullets. He wears no...

The post-9/11 American Muslim is a population that cannot be represented by any single ideology or concept. Islam itself is a religion...

Watchmen was published at a time when the graphic novel was emerging as a popular art form. It transformed the comic book medium into...

We have seen thus far that Watchmen poses challenging questions regarding social and political issues to its readers. It goes even...

The first three chapters of Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen introduce the death of an old superhero that occurred as a result of murder. His...

As a medium of popular culture, the comic book industry is sensitive to public opinion. The need for a comics code in the mid-20th...

My first exposure to any superhero film was the Sony Pictures production of Spiderman in 2002. I was ten years of age and often cowered...

Contemporary literature is key in addressing issues that are considered taboo for discussion in social circles. A major theme of the blog...

Villains from the earlier comics series, like Superman and Batman for example, are characterized by an inherent sense of malevolence....

The 20th century was subject to rapid technological discoveries in almost every industry. The topic of science and ethics gained momentum...