At McSweeney’s River Clegg makes a plea. “I get it. Things are scary right now. The environment is collapsing, democracy is eroding, and the worst pandemic in a century shows no signs of ending. It makes sense that you want a couple hours of escapism with the latest […]
Listen up, everybody, Grant Morrison has some things to say! “To undermine the fundamental appeal of superheroes like Superman and Supergirl by re-casting them as anti-heroes at best or outright monsters – dragging imaginary childhood paragons off their pedestals to reinforce a fairly facile point about the tendency […]
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.
It’s a very special episode of Bitches On Comics! “We talk to special guest host Stephanie Williams about the Static Shock holiday special ‘Froze Out.’ We discuss how Virgil is the only hero who really seems to get the point of Christmas, how the series tackles homelessness and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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