apocalypse
#101 Adapting the Wolf Man
I have ambivalent feelings about comics adaptations of works of literature. Freud says that while ambivalence involves feelings of love and hate, it really means hate. That is, whenever we say we are ambivalent about ...
#81 Self-Consciously Academic: Brian K. Vaughan Pushing “Y: The Last Man”
The first issue of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s “Y the Last Man” came out at the time that I was at the peak of my comic collecting, and from the moment it was ...
#80 Of Pulp and Circumstance: The Forbidden Fruit of Y: The Last Man
The cover art of Y: The Last Man cultivates a paradox between the representation of morality–the sexual status quo, the politics of gender–and the representation of a world in which those morals have been subverted. ...
#66 Trauma in Kirkman’s “The Walking Dead”: Finding our Humanity in an Unlikely Place
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ...
#43 There Are No Words, but…
In our discussions about comics, we’ve tended to orbit around superheroes, post-war graphic “novels,” and the way these comic books are reflected and received in popular culture. So let’s call this post a “serious turn.” ...
#15 Apocalypse and the Graphic Narrative Part 2: Ground Zero
Speaking of apocalypse, what if David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp allegorizes the events of the morning of September 11, 2001 in New York City? The text provides a fair amount of evidence for the idea: Asterios, ...
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