Superhero
#87 Who’s the Villain Here? “Avengers vs X-Men” and the Summer Blockbuster
As this is a free-for-all month at Graphixia, I wanted to turn to what I’m perceiving as a current trend in the big two publishers: the nature of villainy, in mainstream superhero comics, is changing ...
#71 Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys and Nostalgia
Disclaimer: I am only part way through 20th Century Boys and my fragmentary comments on the series reflect this partial reading. Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys presents the fate of a group of young friends ...
#65 When Life Gives You Lemons, Destroy Everything Your Parents Hold Dear: Trauma and Naming in Marvel’s Runaways
So I really like young adult fiction, and I really like comics. And sometimes, a series pops up that allows me to blend my love of both. Marvel’s Runaways series, initially by Brian K. Vaughn but ...
#54 Who Needs a Secret Identity Anyway? Tintin as Pedagogy
I have to admit that I wasn’t too familiar with Tintin before we agreed to work with Herge’s (or, more correctly, Georges Remi’s) texts on Graphixia, beyond the general “story of a boy and his ...
#53 Where are the damned tights, Herge?: On Realizing Tintin Is a Superhero
A conversation between me and fellow Graphixia writer @wilkinspeter: So I started off my Adventures with Tintin (see what I did there?) feeling very very very confused and largely irritable. This wasn’t my first foray ...
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