Adam Knave answers a question a lot of comics readers have been asking lately, “Why aren’t there more women in comics?” : “[T]he industry has a history of actively trying to throw out half the population’s worth of potential. And then asking why they aren’t there, punching them […]
Unofficial, Unsanctioned, Unsolicited–Colleen Coover’s “Superman’s Ex-Girlfriend Lana Lang!”
ComicbookGRRRL writes about the history of Catwoman and the hypersexualization of a sexual woman: “At first glance, the cover of the upcoming Catwoman #1 may not be seen as terribly out of place for a character who is so openly sexual and enjoys revelling in the power she […]
Marcel Duchamp is ahead of all of us once again: “Who knew that Duchamp would also loosely anticipate the emerging field of internal atmospheric forensics, deployed as evidence in a U.S. murder case?” More about Duchamps’ 50 CC of Paris Air, the historical study of air environments and […]
Comic artist Brian Wood’s Public Domain is public domain, all 132 pages are now downloadable.
As part of its massive “reboot,” DC Comics will make Barbara Gordon Batgirl again. This means, though that her 20 year history as Oracle, peerless hacker and information broker with an eidetic memory, leader of The Birds of Prey and one of the few examples of a differently-abled […]
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