Sigrid Nansen: Icemaiden to Glacier
When the DC Pride anthology was released last summer, I must admit I found it rather underwhelming and somewhat performative. As an autochorissexual, the overall lack of asexual representation beyond...
View ArticleTRADE WAITING #16: Week of December 22, 2021
Graphic novels. Collected editions. Omnibuses. Trades. These are really all just words for “a kickass way to read comics”. So, with this column we’re going to look at all of those kickass bound pages...
View ArticleHOT FIVE: Week of January 5, 2022
Welcome to Comicosity’s Hot Five. Hot Five is a short list of the top books we think you’ll want to be checking out. Be they new title launches, key issues or just continuing stories from some of the...
View ArticleTRADE WAITING #17: Week of January 12, 2022
Graphic novels. Collected editions. Omnibuses. Trades. These are really all just words for “a kickass way to read comics”. So, with this column we’re going to look at all of those kickass bound pages...
View ArticleThe Legion’s Lightning Rod: The Growth and Evolution of Lightning Lad
The Legion of Super-Heroes are one of the oldest teams in the history of DC Comics. What began as three time travelling teens who made an appearance in Adventure Comics #247 evolved into a group with...
View ArticleHistory of Violence: The Brief History of Erika Storn
In 2021 I wrote an article that briefly talked about DC Comics’ first Pride-themed comic anthology. I listed over a dozen of DC’s earliest queer characters who received no mention or reference in DC...
View ArticleLetter from the Senior Editor: John Ernenputsch
While it’s hard to believe in a lot of ways, this website you’re reading right now is 11 years old. It both feels like yesterday and 40 years ago that I was firing it up and then quickly starting to...
View ArticleTruth-Telling: Tynion and Simmonds’ THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH as Art
I think it can be said without the ruffling of many feathers that “comics are art.” Still, one of the biggest philosophical issues we as a society tend to run into, much like Wile E. Coyote when he...
View ArticleHealth and Inclusivity: Considering Identity in Okura’s ‘I Think Our Son is Gay’
Queerness occupies a strange place in the world, pun not quite intended. From what I gather, which I hope is not my own projection, the queer and trans people I know just want to live and thrive, be...
View ArticleHealth and Inclusivity: Sparking “The Fire Within” with Pryor, Kambadais,...
This Black History Month hit a little different. There was a new spirit, and it’s hard to put a name to or to hold, but I could see it in the bright eyes of my skinfolk, in people’s determination to...
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