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Agents of SHIELD political commentary
I've been really enjoying the current storyline in Agents of SHIELD. It's doing a virtual-reality take on a sort of...
In defense of Marvel and diversity
This is a long impassioned post in which I try to come to the defense of Marvel comics. The TL;DR...
Old review resurfaces
I recently read Voice, the latest completed volume of Carla Speed McNeil's excellent sf comic book Finder. This storyline is...
Productive day
Today I spent a few hours pre-cleaning before the cleaners got here--the level of clutter was such that they would...
On superheroes and community
One thing I'm liking about various recent superheroes is that they're surrounded by community. A couple of years ago, Captain...
Awesome new forthcoming Ultimates series
I'm really looking forward to the new Ultimates comic book series. The team will consist of Ms. America, Black Panther,...
Marvel’s upcoming diverse comics
Spent way too much time reading comics over the past couple days when I should've been doing other stuff. But...
Somebody Will, again
I'm having one of those everything-is-deeply-intertwingled moments. On the way home, Ada Palmer's haunting and lovely and sad-yet-hopeful song “Somebody...
Good weekend
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
Morgan Calabresé on coming out
In the late 1980s, I was delighted to discover N. Leigh Dunlap's comic strip Morgan Calabresé. It was mostly about...