Black Panther and Wonder Woman-The importance of Represention

A while back when I was taking a break from studying, I decided to look at some Black Panther fan art and came across this picture. It called Black Panther and Wonder Woman Empowering Heroes and it was made by LucianoVecchio on deviantart. It is beautifully drawn and the artist himself has wonder art. I reccomend checking […]

Anime Power Ups: Why My Hero Academia Breaks the Shonen Mold

In Shonen magna, power ups or transformations are a staple of the genre. In these stories the protagonist needs to overcome some enemy or force through his own power. Usually this is the result of training accompanied by breaking the limit of what was thought possible in a certain situation. The best and well known […]

Do You Really Know Antman?

I first discovered Ant-Man during a part-time summer job at the movie theater. After seeing the movie and Paul Rudd portrayal of the character, Ant-man quickly became my favorite hero in the marvel universe. I wanted to know more about the history of this character and was quite surprised when I found out there have […]

Wanna see me talk about the greatest superhero? Wanna see me do it again?

  Ah, now that i got your attention, i want to talk about my favorite superhero,besides batman, and i’m not talking about spongebob. The flash first originated in the 1940’s as Jay Garrick. The comic instantly caught fire and was one of most renowned D.C superhero effortlessly.  Jay Garrick was the original flash but he wasn’t […]

The American Comic Book and its Jewish origins

At this point, I think it’s safe to say that over the semester we’ve looked at comics and graphic novels in depth. Like…super in depth. I mean, what else can you do in a class like this? And while it’s been great to see some historical stuff (Oldbuck), read some pretty out there stuff (Das […]

Hawkeye Hawkear

Recently, popular Deaf artist Nyle DiMarco (check him out winning America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars) has brought attention to a recent Mic article addressing the lack of diversity in the Marvel movie adaptations. The article provides helpful graphs using data from IMDb. DiMarco points out that they failed to mention that […]

Cyanide and Happiness: The Beginning

Most people familiar with internet based comics and memes are sure to have at least heard of Cyanide and Happiness comics. However, it’s not common knowledge how this now 53 million dollar enterprise came to be. In short, it all started with three dudes drawing stick figures and jokes. Kris Wilson, Bob DenBleyker, and Dave […]