When I initially read Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow earlier this year, I thoroughly enjoyed its depth and complexity on various levels, so I was very excited to see Craig Gillespie’s film based on the comic. I don’t want to get into the controversy surrounding the ways that the adaptation departs from the originial text, which you can find online … Read More Why Do We Love Dogs As Much As We Do?
Over the past few posts I have been writing about some of my favorite comic issues and how these issues use the comics’ medium in engaging and experimental ways to tell compelling stories. Today, I want to continue that thread by looking at Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo’s Nightwing #87, an issue that, Like Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye #11, present readers with a new way to … Read More One Continuous Image in Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo’s “Nightwing” #87
+ A Perfect Circle, comics, dc comics, Dead Boy Detectives, G.I. Joe, pornsak pichetshote, Thoughts and Prayers
Last January, I picked up the G.I. Joe Compendium Volume 1, which contains the first fifty issues of the series from March 1982 to May 1986. As a kid, I didn’t collect comics, but when I saw a G.I. Joe comic or a Transformers comic on the rack at a grocery store, I’d pick it up. The compendium has been the first time I’ve read … Read More Instead of giving up, what do you do when you care?: Gun Violence in “Dead Boy Detectives”
+ comics, dc comics, Far Sector, George Carlin, Green Lantern, Jamal Campbell, language, n.k. jemisin
We all know the power of words and the ways that words shape our reality. The student in Ernest Gaines’ “The Sky is Gray” points this out when he gets into a conversation with other individuals in the waiting room at a dentist office. He tells those around him that the grass is black and that the wind is pink. Immediately, they laugh at him and … Read More Language and Power in N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell’s “Far Sector”
I first read N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell’s Far Sector when it came out in the trade paperback, and I’d been waiting for an opportunity to teach it. When it came out as part of DC Comics’ compact line, I knew that I would teach it in my “Lost Voices in American Literature” course. I wanted to include it in this course because it connects, in … Read More Attempting to Change the System from Within in N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell’s “Far Sector”
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