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“Maybe that’s the real punk rock”: Hope and Humanity in James Gunn’s Superman

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Even before James Gunn’s Superman debuted earlier this month, the right-wing, conservative backlash rose up to proclaim that Gunn’s adaptation didn’t adhere Superman’s ideology, calling it “Superwoke.” I do not want to argue about that here because I have written about Superman’s initial appearances before and how he has always pushed back against oppressive systems and championed immigrants. One need only look at Joe … Read More “Maybe that’s the real punk rock”: Hope and Humanity in James Gunn’s Superman

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The Sickly Flavor of the Contagion Beneath Our Feet

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Writing about the responses from world leaders to his stabbing in 2022, Salman Rushdie points out that while some expressed their condolences and support others rejoiced in the fact that an assailant attacked him on stage at Chautauqua. Referencing the fatwa that Ruhollah Khomeini issued on him following the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1989, Rushdie points out that once “you are turned into an object of … Read More The Sickly Flavor of the Contagion Beneath Our Feet

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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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