by pop culture news | Mar 4, 2015 | Comics
By Nicola Streeten Plowman, University of Sussex Last summer, major US comics publisher Marvel reincarnated one of its most popular characters, Thor, as a woman. Predictably, this prompted an avalanche of opinion, both positive and negative. The positive reaction...
by pop culture news | Feb 25, 2015 | Comics
Spider-Gwen is a weird title for the newest heroine to swing through the Marvel Universe. Technically, she’s a Spider-Woman. But the ‘Gwen’ part of her moniker highlights the most potentially exciting aspect of her: she’s an alternate version...
by pop culture news | Feb 25, 2015 | Comics
By Golnar Nabizadeh, University of Western Australia In the month since the the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, the significance of visual representation has been a topic of much discussion. Political cartoons have the potential to reinforce problematic stereotypes – and also...
