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In October I might be attending the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference in Kansas City, MO. ...

Pictures from the lecture can be found here. Here also is a brief video of the after-lecture signing. And I should soon be able to post a ...

This Friday I am hosting a special guest lecture on comics at Lewis and Clark Community College, the school where I teach. I will be leading...

In my Comic Books as Lit course we're in the middle of our discussion of V for Vendetta and we just reached the prison scenes. So I had...

In more news on how Marvel are price-gouging assholes with regards to their Civil War trade, I was out at a bookstore today and they happen...

So, back in London for a week. Classes are over and I don’t need to be back on campus until the twenty-third, so I figured I’d come home for...

Continuing the trip through Silver Age (although, is 1958-59 Silver Age?) goodness. I've read the first 176 pages. Here are some highlig...

I just finished reading the first story in Showcase Presents Superman Volume 1 and, wow, that's some messed up shit. The cover is to Ac...

Wow, it's been nearly a week since I last posted. Know why? Nothing to say really. Nothing in comics has gotten my attention this past w...

Because school has kept me busy the past couple of days, I have had little time to consider these "comic books" and what they mean...

I just finished rereading Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho the other night after watching the film adaptation again a week or two bac...

Question: In the world of Sin City, things are not always black and white. Good and evil are extremes at the opposite ends of a spectrum, bu...

Throughout the whole "Civil War" thing, the word "futurist" has been thrown around a lot to describe Tony Stark and Reed...

Via Dick Hyacinth , we present Mark Millar takes on Graeme McMillan . Now, the actual topic here is of interest, but I've got nothing mu...

Now that all of my students have officially taken the midterm, I can share with you some of the questions I asked. They had nine topic quest...

Go read this fantastic essay by Greg Burgas on postmodernism in comics, Grant Morrison and Joe Casey . Some really interesting ideas in ther...

For some reason, the university bookstore has begun carrying some Marvel trades, so I picked up The Road to Civil War since they're cha...

Just got back from going to see 300 with a couple of friends, Amir and Jacqui. It was good. Not great, not amazing, not spectacular--good. ...

So, Captain America is dead. And he'll come back. Whoop-dee-whoop. Don't act like you actually care. Every fanboy who says, "He...

I read Avant L'Incal (yeah, that's right, I'm feeling pretentious enough to use the original French--it means "Before the ...