Though superhero movies are Hollywood’s biggest moneymakers, too often we forget their source material.
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DC Comic’s New Bisexual Superman Met With Homophobic Backlash
A Brazilian athlete was fired from his team after making discriminatory remarks about character Jon Kent, who has a same-sex romance in an upcoming comic.
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Tired of Superheroes? Three Unconventional Comic Book Movies to Stream
Here are a few great titles to check out that have nary a cape in sight.
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League, an Invaluable Historical Document of the Age of the Fan
The result of a years-long fan campaign, the massive reedit of 2017’s much-maligned Justice League holds many lessons about contemporary film culture, production, and editing.
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After Viral Racist Encounter, Central Park Birder Shares Experience in Comic Form
A semi-fictionalized account of Christian Cooper’s own experiences, It’s a Bird takes on racist dog whistles with necessary straightforwardness.
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Centering the African Diaspora in Comics and Cartoons
A new exhibition recognizes the importance of representation both on the comics page and in the hands of the artists making them.
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Joker Is a Thinly Veiled (and Thin) Take on ’80s NYC
The film is far too derivative, far too wedded to juvenile mythology, and far too tentative to deserve its elevated profile.
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The Comics That Defined DC’s Shuttering Vertigo Imprint
With the influential mature comics line ending after more than 25 years, here are 10 series, both famous and lesser-known, which demonstrate some of the best it had to offer.