“Scooby-Doo & Krypto, Too”
Watch it while you can–the Scooby-Doo / Superman family crossover movie, Scooby-Doo & Krypto, Too, has been leaked. Watch here.
“SUPERMAN and THE AUTHORITY annotations PART 2”
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 […]
From The Archives: Cahiers du Cannon: Street Smart
This month we share Guest Star Jessica Ritchey’s entry into her series, Cahiers du Cannon. Previously, Jessica wrote about Castaway and Runaway Train. This month she looks at Christopher Reeve in Street Smart (1987). Until Batman V Superman disgraced itself in theaters the most reviled Superman property was […]
Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates
At Polygon, Ta-Nehisi Coates talks with Evan Narcisse about writing Black Panther, working with Marvel and more. “[T]here are people who make their living off of comic books. And I wish that Marvel found better ways to compensate the creators who helped make Black Panther Black Panther. I […]
“60 Minutes on Christopher Reeves as Superman”
At RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz writes on Christopher Reeves and Richard Donner’s Superman (1978). “The movie feels like a case of an entire production rising to the level of its lead actor, who happens to be playing the biggest square in the galaxy, a guy who would rather […]
“The Golden Age superheroes were shaped by the rise of Fascism”
Art Spiegelman writes about the history of superheroes and the rise of Fascism at The Guardian. And he includes his response to this very essay being cut from an upcoming compilation of golden age Marvel comics. “At this point, it might be worth pointing out (not out of […]
The Cultural Gutter 