What We Can Know about Alan Moore: A Review of Illuminations

What We Can Know about Alan Moore: A Review of Illuminations Alex Kingsley Under Review:Illuminations. Alan Moore. Bloomsbury, October 2022. Alan Moore is best known as the creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, both comic book series popularized by their film adaptations. Watchmen explores the idea of state-sponsored superheroes, whereas V for Vendetta has … Continue reading What We Can Know about Alan Moore: A Review of Illuminations

Soft Skills and Skeletal Remains: Review of Jordan S. Carroll’s Reading the Obscene

Soft Skills and Skeletal Remains: Review of Jordan S. Carroll, Reading the Obscene Robert Kiely Under Review:Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of Us Literature. Jordan S. Carroll. Stanford University Press, 2021. Jordan S. Carroll’s Reading the Obscene completely debunks the notion that transgression is “inherently sublime and subversive.” What is new … Continue reading Soft Skills and Skeletal Remains: Review of Jordan S. Carroll’s Reading the Obscene

Can’t Keep Politics Out Of Comics: Review of Politics In The Gutters by Christina M. Knopf

Can't Keep Politics Out Of Comics: Review of Politics In The Gutters by Christina M. Knopf Christina Wurst Under Review:Politics in the Gutters. Christina M. Knopf. University Press of Mississippi, July 2021. What do comics and American politicians have in common? Many would reply that both belong in the gutters, being either a trashy medium … Continue reading Can’t Keep Politics Out Of Comics: Review of Politics In The Gutters by Christina M. Knopf

A Fantastical Journey to Finding Yourself: Review of The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu

A Fantastical Journey to Finding Yourself: Review of The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu Anke Marie Bock Under Review: The Tangleroot Palace: Stories. By Marjorie Liu. Tachyon Publications, June 15, 2021. When setting out to read Marjorie Liu’s newest piece of literature, you may not know what to expect from this well-known Marvel comic book … Continue reading A Fantastical Journey to Finding Yourself: Review of The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu

Queer Love Conquers All: Using Queer Characters to Usher in a New Peace in Marvel Comics’s Empyre Event

Queer Love Conquers All: Using Queer Characters to Usher in a New Peace in Marvel Comics’s Empyre Event Ibtisam Ahmed Representation matters. Let’s just get that out of the way. In an industry that was censored for decades through the regulations of the restrictive Comics Code Authority and that continues to cater to demographics that … Continue reading Queer Love Conquers All: Using Queer Characters to Usher in a New Peace in Marvel Comics’s Empyre Event