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+ alan moore, christianity, dave gibbons, dc comics, watchmen

“Who makes the world?” Religion and Morality in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s “Watchmen”

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During Dr. Manhattan’s public reveal in March 1960 in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, a newscaster stares into the camera and says, “The Superman exists, and he’s American.” Watchmen takes place in an alternate history where the United States won the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon remains president in 1985, and superhero “vigilantes,” inspired by the appearance of Superman and others in the late 1930s, protect individuals … Read More “Who makes the world?” Religion and Morality in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s “Watchmen”

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+ carmen maria machado, comics, dc comics, gender, graphic novels, sexual assault, sexuality, the low, low woods

Credibility and What One Believes in Carmen Maria Machado and Dani’s “The Low, Low Woods”

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When Jaydn DeWald introduced me to Carmen Maria Machado and Dani’s The Low, Low Woods, I knew that I wanted to include it in my “Monsters, Race, and Comics” class. Jaydn also introduced me to Machado’s “The Husband Stitch,” and before starting The Low, Low Woods we read and discussed Machado’s story in class. One of the overarching themes in both texts deals with the discrediting of … Read More Credibility and What One Believes in Carmen Maria Machado and Dani’s “The Low, Low Woods”

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+ comics, dc comics, gene luen yang, Gurihiru, lillian e smith, martin luther king, jr, superman smashes the klan

Hate, the Oldest Commodity, in “Superman Smashes the Klan”

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Hate sells, and it’s profitable as hell. This isn’t anything new or revelatory, I know. Lillian Smith pointed it out in Killers of the Dream when she talked about wealthy whites, in order to maintain their power, enlisted poor whites in hate against African Americans and others following Reconstruction and into the Jim Crow era and beyond, flattening whiteness. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed … Read More Hate, the Oldest Commodity, in “Superman Smashes the Klan”

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+ comics, dc comics, deadshot, democracy, democratic socialism, EC Comics, january 6, nightshade, rick flag, suicide squad

Self-Interest and The Common Good in “Suicide Squad” #4

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Over the course of this blog, I’ve written, extensively, about the ways that comics address political and social issues. The “preachies” in EC Comics are perhaps the most obvious examples of this. Today, I want to look at May 1987’s Suicide Squad #4 written by John Ostrander and drawn by Luke McDonnell. “William Hell’s Overture” is a self-contained story early Ostrander’s Suicide Squad run, … Read More Self-Interest and The Common Good in “Suicide Squad” #4

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