Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 14
note on all the image scans: they are correct manga-style so they are read right to left Spend enough time doing critical readings of media and you come across the…
Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 11
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 10
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
In Case You Missed it: Image Expo Edition
Lots of news and press releases come out in the summer because of all the conventions. Sometimes it slips through the cracks. Here are some announcements from Image Expo in…
Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 9
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
Epistemological YOLO: Kieron Gillen’s The Wicked + The Divine Vol 1-2
Kieron Gillen has a lot of things going on in The Wicked + The Divine Volumes 1 and 2, but below the plot there are some profound thoughts about godhood,…
Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 8
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
No Rest for the Weary: Gail Simone’s Red Sonja Vol 2
With the second story arc in her Red Sonja run, Gail Simone unifies what could easily be a series of six one-offs by creating a fetch quest. In this case,…
Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 7
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
Love or Lust? Sunstone Volumes 1 and 2
This has been a year of firsts for me when it comes to literature. Earlier this year I read a romance novel for the first time because it was written…
Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 6
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
All’s Fair in Love and War: Fables Volumes 3 and 4
Fables Volumes 1 and 2 were pretty intense. The first volume has Bigsby Wolf solving the alleged murder of Snow White’s sister, Rose Red. The second volume involved an uprising…