Outset
Greetings from the jungle. I’ve been wandering here for a few years now and though I have only wandered haphazardly around the outskirts of this vast, savage wilderness, I find myself already lost in...
View ArticleThe Digital Polis
(Originally produced as a guest post for a far superior blog, www.sportlinguist.com) I. The New Prehistory We can’t go ask ancient peoples what was going on when they decided to get together and...
View ArticlePreview of coming attractions
My next post is in the works and should be up in the next day or so. I will summarize its probable content in the following panel: Cheers!
View ArticleContinuity Error
“Suspension of disbelief.” Superhero comics don’t work very well without it. I. Weird Science It’s incredible enough that the human brain can make sense of these static representations at all and can...
View ArticleWat do? – Part I
Part I Imageboards like 4chan and others I’ve discussed are structured around (surprisingly enough) images. A typical post on these boards consists of an image, a short text, and technical information...
View ArticleWat do? Part II
Communicative Value As noted, the incorporation of images can be used to perform different paratextual functions, allowing for great diversity in both the content and the use of images. In my...
View ArticleSuperfolks Part I
1. Secret Origins I take superheroes pretty seriously. I don’t collect memorabilia, I don’t argue about character continuity on seedy internet forums, and I don’t write fan-fiction, but I do greatly...
View ArticleSuperfolks Part II – In Brightest Day
1. The Rainbow Rodeo Many years ago, test pilot Hal Jordan of the US Air Force was brought by a strange beam of light to a crashed space ship. A dying alien, victim of the crash, offered him a little...
View ArticleSuperfolks Part III: In Blackest Night
1. The revolving door of death Superheroes have an interesting relationship with death. Death is everywhere in their stories—heroes are often spurred into donning their tights by the death of a loved...
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