Royal Vulnerabilities and Regal Strength in ‘Mera: Queen of Atlantis #1’
Royalty, duty, and civil war throughout Atlantis gives Mera a chance to show why she's a worthy queen.
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‘Yellow Negroes’ Draws the Plight of Undocumented Lives
The liminal state between immigrant and citizen becomes the permanent experience of undocumented people.
Haven’t You Learned How to Take a Joke? The Comedy-on-Campus Debates
The college comedy deficit means that we are neither taught how to take a joke nor how to interpret one.
Graphic Fiction ‘The Smell of Starving Boys’ Inverts Images and Expectations
Loo Hui Phang emphasizes the nature of image-making from the first panel: an upside landscape as viewed through the inverting lens of the protagonist's camera.
Unfettered Ingenuity and Imagination: Chris Ware’s ‘Monograph’
There's a real connection made between the artist and his art that extends to a deeper understanding of both, here.
Secrets, Convergence, and the Sacred: DC Comic’s ‘Doomsday Clock #1’
Doomsday Clock #1 doubles down on Watchmen with a world where heroes and men with god-like powers set humanity on a dark, dangerous course.