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
Over the past few semesters I’ve taught various comics in my courses. Last fall, I used EC Comics from the 1950s in my composition class, and when students read these books they encountered what I would call “traditional” comics that relied heavily of distinct panels and layouts in conjunction with both narrative text and speech bubbles. Some of these stories broke with convention, having panels that … Read More “Pizza Dog” and The Innovative Storytelling of Matt Fraction and David Aja’s “Hawkeye” #11
Before I really started reading comics, I always thought of the page layouts in simplistic terms. That is, I would think about the classical structure of a set number of panels, with clear and distinct borders, presented in the same manner across the entirety of the issue. However, the more I read, I encountered numerous engaging page layouts and narratives that challenged my naive … Read More The Beauty of Comics in Don McGregor and Billy Graham’s “Jungle Action Featuring: The Black Panther” #16
Over the course of his Black Panther run, Ta-Nehisi Coates incorporatedcountless allusions to artists, writers, historical events and more. We see him directly referencing John Locke when Changamire, during our introduction to him, quotes from Locke’s Treatise on Government. We see his allude to Mr. Lif’s 2002 song “Post Mortem” when Zenzi quotes to song directly to Aneka, saying, “In times of famine we made more … Read More Moving from “be” to “being” in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Black Panther”
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