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+ Brent Eric Anderson, Chris Claremont, comics, jerry Farwell, marvel comics, moral majority, x-men, X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

Using the Bible to Justify Blinding Hate in “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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The connections between the Moral Majority’s Jerry Falwell and Reverend William Stryker in Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson’s X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills is pretty apparent. I wrote about this in my previous post, and a few years back I pointed out how the graphic novel ties itself to the historical violence enacted against African Americans and others in the United States. Today, I … Read More Using the Bible to Justify Blinding Hate in “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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+ Brent Eric Anderson, Chris Claremont, comics, jerry Farwell, marvel comics, moral majority, religion, x-men, X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

The Moral Majority and “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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Writing about the lynching of Mark and Jill, two Black children, at the beginning of Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson’s X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, John Jennings points out the use of the word “Mutie,” a label that the Purifiers put onto the dangling bodies of the two children. Jennings writes, “the slur “MUTIE” has come to represent for many, all racial, ethnic, homophobic and … Read More The Moral Majority and “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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+ alan moore, comics, dave gibbons, dc comics, graphic novels, watchmen

Intimacy and Human Connection in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen”: Part III

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Over the past few posts, I’ve been examining how Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen explores our need for intimacy and human connections. With the specter of nuclear holocaust hanging over the world, we see individuals connect, showing the wide range of interactions from love and intimacy to disagreement. We see Malcolm and Gloria go through their arguments around Maclolm’s work which hurts their intimacy. We see … Read More Intimacy and Human Connection in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen”: Part III

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Intimacy and Human Connection in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen”: Part II

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Over the past few posts, I have been looking at various themes in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen. Today, I want to continue the examination of how Watchmen interrogates our relationships with another, calling upon us to build bridges and to connect with others intimately so that we don’t remain alone and can face the trials and tribulations of the world, whether personal, national, or global, together, … Read More Intimacy and Human Connection in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen”: Part II

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Intimacy and Human Connection in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen”: Part I

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When I chose to add Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen to my “Who Watches Superheroes?” course, I hadn’t read it for a few years. So, while I knew many of the overall plot points and themes, I always thought about the graphic novel as a work that solely deals with the height fears during the Cold War of mass nuclear destruction and with the commentary … Read More Intimacy and Human Connection in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen”: Part I

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