“Teen Titans Go! to the Movies” critiques the over-importance ascribed to film

Teen Titans Go! to the Movies rejects that cinematic adaptation offers validation for characters and storylines from “lesser” media such as comics and cartoons

“Lo, I teach You the Superman”: The Philosophy of Grant Morrison

On the Relation of Metafiction to Metaphysics in Sequential Art

Solo shows us the Dark Side to a Star Wars cinematic universe

Solo fails at being either a standalone story or an essential episode in the Star Wars saga

“As Above, So Below”: The Esoteric Philosophy of Alan Moore

“‘The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind”

Consulting the Norns: Fate and Free-Will in God of War

“Fate is a lie told by the gods.”

The Moral Philosophy of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War

How Thanos’ disagrees with Steve Roger’s mantra “We don’t trade lives”

The Dialectic of Killmonger, Wakanda, and T’Challa in Black Panther

On the competing ideologies of Killmonger and Wakanda in Black Panther and their ultimate synthesis in T’Challa

A New Direction for The Hub City Review

Regular readers will have noted that the Hub City Review had gone relatively dark in 2018. I’m finally ready to reveal the reason for this long silence. I’ve said from the start of this site that its primary purpose was as a portfolio; I always wanted to move onto bigger and better opportunities in the…

The Philosophy of Black Museum

Here’s the link to my first video that I wrote for Wisecrack exploring narrative empathy in the the Black Mirror Season 4 finale, Black Museum: Wisecrack QuickTake: Black Mirror: What’s the Point

Doomsday Clock #2

“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”