It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Joker World
The 20-year-old Joker story that explains our times. A Jokerscape today might comprise endless memes and Reddit rabbit holes
Tagged: Superheroes
Men of Virtue: Or, Why Is It So Hard To Write A Good Guy?
Superman, Gary Cooper, Straw Man Fallacy, and Hollywood’s 50-some-odd years of embracing the anti-hero to a ridiculous extreme.
The Avengers: The Origin Story of Louisiana’s Mightiest Heroes
These days, an Avengers product would be top of the line. However, back in the mid-90s, the Avengers were decidedly second-class.
“Avengers: Endgame” Movie Review
Once the Avengers start getting the band back together, the movie oscillates wildly between broad comedy and some of the grimmer passages that made the first hour so great.
The Condiment King: An Oral History
DC writers hate him for being a one-note bit that persists over the years, surviving deaths and reboots with a mind and agenda of his own
Batman vs Superman, Seriously
So if “doing what works” is a working definition of fascism, and an affinity for “doing what works” makes Batman fascist, and Superman
fascist, what does that mean for us poor old everyday humans
Superheroism, Role-Playing, and Adulthood
How we approach the concept of identity has been in flux for nearly as long as superheroes have been popular.
5 People Who Should Have Played Batman Instead of Ben Affleck
The news that Ben Affleck has been tapped to play Batman in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman movie has me thinking of just about everyone else in the world I wish Warner Bros. chose instead.
DC Comics Gets Political with “The Movement”
“Yer goin’ all soft on me, Luis, I swear,” growls one cop to his partner. He then proposes the following to a couple just busted for drug possession, “You go. We keep the evidence....
