“Cap calls out Tony’s Self-Deprecation”
Friend of the Gutter Mark D. White writes about Captain America / Steve Rogers’ friendship with Iron Man Tony Stark in Captain America / Iron Man #2 at The Comics Professor.
10 Things I liked in 2021
It’s annual list time where I share things I liked in the last year. I usually try to write about things I haven’t written about before, but the world is not what it was and perhaps next year I will be back to that or perhaps on to […]
“Looking to the Future in Swamp Thing: Becoming”
Friend of the Gutter, Sara Century takes a look at Swamp Thing: Becoming and sees the future. “With the most recent prior entry in the Swamp Thing story being a mini-series written by co-creator Len Wein in 2016, the 2021 series, The Swamp Thing Volume 1: Becoming, pans […]
A Philosopher reads Thor!
Friend of the Gutter Mark D. White has a new book coming out and this one is about Thor! Both of them! The book “covers the seven years of Thor comics written by Jason Aaron in collaboration with magnificent artists such as Esad Ribić and Russell Dauterman, starting […]
“Daredevil nails a crucial difference between utilitarianism and deontology in Daredevil #36″
At the Comics Professor, friend of the Gutter Mark D. White writes about Daredevil Matt Murdock, Reed Richards, utilitarianism and deontology! “Matt asks a simple question—”What’s right?”—and then draws out the difference between what philosopher W.D. Ross characterized as “the right and the good” (in his book of […]
The Virtues of Captain America (and Namor)
Friend of the Gutter Mark D. White writes about Captain America #365-7 and Damage Control #3-4 (Dec. 1989-1990). And there’s Namor! “These three issues of Captain America comprise the title’s involvement in the “Acts of Vengeance” crossover (which you may have noticed blazoned across each of the covers […]
The Cultural Gutter 