Continental Comics
This week, I visited a local comics store called Continental Comics. It was a small store, packed with comics from ceiling to floor, with...
Communism in Comics
This week's comics collection from Marvel publications were originally printed in the 1960s when communism was considered a domestic...
Discovery of hidden identities
This week we took a detour away from the Wonder Woman chronicles to visit the not-so-distant topic of sexuality and gender in the...
Binary relationships
Saunders addresses the nature of Marston's "Wonder Woman" in Do the Gods Wear Capes? as a narrative that functions socially as a...
Gynocratic Theory
The Chronicles of Wonder Woman provide an new and interesting category of superhero comics in the studied history of the genre. We have...


The Urban setting in Superhero literature
Most of the responses to the texts of this course have focused on the role of socioeconomic structure in superhero comics. They have also...


The Batman Franchise
Eileen Meehan asserts plainly in her analysis of the Batman franchise titled "Holy commodity fetish, Batman!" that the text surrounding...


Reflections
My first impression of Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" was stimulated by a pattern of fragmentation in book one of the...


Impressions
Popularity of comics leading up to World War II was largely dependent upon the interests of American children. The vivid imagery and...


Criminality in the Batman Chronicles
The use of antagonists in literary genres is often associated with the tension of social issues of historical context. In the Superman...