Dissolve On (5/28/2017-6/3/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Ordinary Heroes
We binged all of Luke Cage as quickly as we could, cramming in episodes while…
All Those Dead Parents
Yes, the obvious route to creating early childhood trauma is a dead parent. The easy…
Patterns
Whether I’m actually going to make my son a Black Widow backpack for his first…
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
There’s no question that newspapers are in trouble: with competition from the internet and television,…
Of Sexual Politics and Superheroes
It’s late Tuesday night; it must be time for me to write about superheroes or…
The Future of Comic-Book Superhero Movies Is The Past – Part 1: MR. FREEDOM
Hollywood has an uncanny way of capturing the Zeitgeist: in a sense, it has to…
Maturity and Guys in Spandex
A while ago, I was having a conversation with some friends about superheroes. One friend…
There’s a Place for Us
The year was probably 1981, maybe 1982. I was four or five. We had just…
ANT-MAN and the Children of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
The trailer for the long-gestating Marvel superhero flick Ant-Man is now out, with millions (if…