Who is Venom? What is the Venom symbiote’s “name?” Why even ask this question? Why do we care? Because the fandom community around this character has very strong opinions around who and what “Venom” is. There’s a very strong hostile undercurrent in regards to nomenclature that claims, with certainty, that only the bonded host and… Continue reading You Can Call the Symbiote Venom: A Textual Analysis
With the recent addition of Deadpool to Marvel Rivals, my various queer comic subreddits have raised the question “is Deadpool ACTUALLY pansexual?” meaning is it “canonical.” Is it “in the comics?” And this raises the question of how do we do character analysis within an expansive, multi-contributor lore? The first two obvious and interconnected hurdles… Continue reading Deadpool Needs to Kiss a Dude for Real: The Shifty Nature of Canon
Pride month means all my queer comic and comic adjacent subReddits are talking canon sexuality among Marvel characters, particularly the Marvel Rivals cast. And I do have to express a level of chagrin that people are boxing it into “gay, straight, bi” because like…asexual? Split theory of attraction? Whatever.One of the big points of discussion,… Continue reading The Bi-Vestigation of Eddie Brock
Note: There are two versions of this: a shorter outline view and more detailed one describing my logic. This is the shorter version. I've determined there're two ways comics can approach a Big Narrative Change. There's the unexpected and the out of character. And this has nothing to do with fandom response or the quality… Continue reading Spectacular Spider-Man: The Hunger-A Case study in Major Narrative Shifts (Short Version)
Note: There are two versions of this: a shorter outline view and more detailed one describing my logic. This is the longer version. I've determined there're two ways comics can approach a Big Narrative Change. There's the unexpected and the out of character. And this has nothing to do with fandom response or the quality… Continue reading Spectacular Spider-Man: The Hunger-A Case study in Major Narrative Shifts (Long Version)
It's been a long time since I've gotten to be part of a comic run from the start then all the way through the ending. I have to note, from the start, that I read large chunks of this run as it was coming out. So not every single issue comes back to me with… Continue reading A Review and Light Analysis of Venom:’21 Ewing and Venom War
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