We’re Living in the Postmodern Age of Comics

The Current Battle for Personal Truth, Social Justice, and a New American Way

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1

Giant mecha battling killer kaiju could conceivably occur. Standing up Amy Jo Johnson circa 1993? Far less likely.

The Goddamned #3

The Goddamned is a New Testament take on an Old Testament tale, focused on subverting the text to elicit in the reader a deeper contemplation of the question as to who actually constitute the sheep and the goats.

Superman: The Coming of the Supermen #1

No comic book reader with even a cursory knowledge of the history of the medium could deny the importance of Neal Adams contributions in the past. Alongside his most notable co-creator, Dennis O’Neil, Adams was instrumental in reestablishing a more serious tone for Batman, a necessary tonic after the high camp of the Adam West…

Star Wars #16

The brief interaction between Solo’s gender-swapped doppelgänger and his former partner-in-crime is a microcosm of everything good and bad, genius and cringe-worthy, since Marvel reclaimed the Star Wars license.

Superman: American Alien #4

The sublimity of Landis’ script is that such interconnectedness never comes across as contrivances. Every familiar face that interacts with Clark progresses the plot while keeping true to their character.

Darth Vader #16

If Aphra is evil Han, Queen Triton is the dark mirror of Leia, daughter to a world in rebellion who instead sides with Vader.

On the Relation of Metafiction to Metaphysics in Sequential art

Comics serves as an appropriate analogy for a more accurate understanding of reality than humans naturally intuit. It may very well be that all men are, in a very real sense, characters in a comic book which is already written, heroes of a story already set down.