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+ Alex Abad-Santos, Brent Eric Anderson, Chris Claremont, comics, donald trump, graphic novels, marvel, marvel comics, Uncategorized, vox, x-men, X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

The Continued Importance of “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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Recently, someone suggested I take a look at Chris Claremont and Brent Eric Anderson’s X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (1982). After reading, I came away noting the number of similarities between the 36 year old graphic novel and the present moment. In an interview on the 35th anniversary of its publication, Claremont and Anderson, along with interviewer Alex Abad-Santos, talk about the correlations between … Read More The Continued Importance of “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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+ african american literature, american literature, black panther, comics, early american literature, everett k ross, louisiana literature, marvel comics, mississippi literature, swamp thing, the servant problem, vertigo comics, william melvin kelley

Celebrating Three Years! Top Five Posts and Most Viewed!

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Somehow, I failed to recognise that last Thursday’s post on David F. Walker’s Luke Cage was my 300th post on Interminable Rambling. That means that this site has been live, in one form or another, for three years. A lot has happened in those three years, and I have written about a lot of subjects. Typically, I try to keep my posts around 1,000 … Read More Celebrating Three Years! Top Five Posts and Most Viewed!

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+ comics, david f walker, luke cage, marvel, marvel comics, Noah Burstein, sins of the father

Noah Burstein, Paternalism, and Black Bodies in David F. Walker´s “Luke Cage”

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After reading David Walker’s Nighthawk, I started reading his run on Luke Cage that started in May 2017. The first story arc, “Sins of  the Father,” sees Cage headed to New Orleans to attend the funeral of Dr. Noah Burstein, the man who experimented on Carl Lucas at Seagate prison, turning him into the superhero Luke Cage. Once he arrives, Cage discovers a plot … Read More Noah Burstein, Paternalism, and Black Bodies in David F. Walker´s “Luke Cage”

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+ Al Feldstein, comics, EC Comics, ernest j gaines, gothic literature, joe orlando, judgement day, robert k martin, Shock SuspenStories, solomon northup

Racist Thought in Al Feldstein and Joe Orlando’s “Judgement Day”

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Over the past few months, I have delved into the EC Comics’ back vault, mainly looking at the more realistic Shock SuspenStories. A couple of weeks ago, Blair Davis tweeted about an Al Feldstein and Joe Orlando story from Weird Fantasy #18 entitled “Judgement Day” from 1953. Davis’s tweet read, “Comics+politics=’Judgement Day.’ If you haven’t read this 1953 tale from EC Comics’ Weird Fantasy … Read More Racist Thought in Al Feldstein and Joe Orlando’s “Judgement Day”

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+ captain america/black panther: flags of our fathers, caroline barr, catharine maria sedgwick, comics, dorie miller, elizabeth freeman, graphic novels, josephine, kevin sacco, reginald hudlin, william faulkner

Josephine’s Invisibility in Kevin Sacco’s “Josephine”

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Kevin Sacco’s Josephine (2017) is poignant and moving. Told only through sepia colored panels, without words, the semi-autobiographical Josephine centers on a seven year-old protagonist as he navigates Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the 1960s, guided in part by his Black caretaker, Josephine. Josephine is, as Sacco notes, a melding together “of my caretakers. . . Leonora, Cleo, Mildred, Louise, and Josephine.” Through Josephine, Sacco’s tale … Read More Josephine’s Invisibility in Kevin Sacco’s “Josephine”

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