Status Updates From Death, Disability, and the ...

Fuck you. It's a book about disability and superheroes but you only address Babs in the context of how it affected depictions of Batman and the Joker. Your scholarship is bad and you should feel bad.

Perhaps the shoddiest comics scholarship I have ever read.

Slow reading, but I am really liking it now that we're getting into character studies.

Finally! We are finally moving away from the Golden Age of comics and other people's takes on the meaning of the superhero and toward the author's view on things.

I've seen the word "reify" more times in the first few pages of this book than I have in the entire rest of my life combined.

I'm not that knowledgeable about the older versions of various comic characters, but talking about them being sexless, or the central fantasy being power vs powerless... Brubaker's Winter Soldier and the fact that Steve has clearly had a sexual relationship with Sharon Carter would contradict that, and his portrayal in Steve Rogers: Super Soldier suggests that it's not so clear-cut anymore.

I'm not that knowledgeable about the older versions of various comic characters, but talking about them being sexless, or the central fantasy being power vs powerless... Brubaker's Winter Soldier and the fact that Steve has clearly had a sexual relationship with Sharon Carter would contradict that, and his portrayal in Steve Rogers: Super Soldier suggests that it's not so clear-cut anymore.