All Things To All People
Are superheroes a modern mythology, or is this a way to flatten the complexities of traditional art while giving commercial media a spiritual significance it does not deserve?
Cultural criticism has always been an essential part of our media ecosystem, especially when it comes to geek culture. But is any of this really meaningful, or is it just another part of the big corporate content marketing machine?
Though the first three issues were setting the stage, it was Mad #4 that was the first big hit, thanks to the first direct comic parody, ‘Superduperman.’
“What’s wrong with me, Mom?” Superman is an icon of comic books. Superhero comics, and arguably comics in general, are what they are today partly because of him. Had he not come along, comics as we know them would be something altogether…
Cover of Batman: Anarky [Purchase Book] Anarky is a DC Comics collection of some of the stories featuring that character that ran in some of the Batman titles. The stories are all written by Alan Grant, the creator of the character; sometimes…