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• In Media Res
  Re: I Liked the Movie, So What Comic Should I Read?

  Film Experimentation?

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  Roger Whitson Washington State University

  Tuesday, August 2, 2011 — 1:55 pm

  Perhaps an interesting parallel can be built between the auteur market for comics and the market for cross-over films. While I agree that the payoff model is completely different (in that comics and film are two entirely different modalities), it seems th ...
• In Media Res
  Re: "I'm Not a Racist, I'm Just Really Invested in Continuity": Casting Aside Donald Glover as Spider-Man

  Great post

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  Roger Whitson Washington State University

  Wednesday, August 3, 2011 — 12:49 pm

  I really enjoyed this post. I think the Ult Spiderman development is complicated but pretty great, overall. True (as you say) it is an alternate universe, not the regular universe. It seems the Ultimate universe is different from an Elseworlds storyline, ...
• In Media Res
  Re: I Liked the Movie, So What Comic Should I Read?

  Comics as Language

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  Roger Whitson Washington State University

  Monday, August 1, 2011 — 2:55 pm

  As someone who went through the "decompression" crazy in the early aughts, I completely empathize with the fanboys who were annoyed that comics were being decompressed. I remember reading Ultimate Spiderman and thinking "gee, it took Bendis ...
• In Media Res
  Re: I Liked the Movie, So What Comic Should I Read?

  Marvel's continuity

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  Roger Whitson Washington State University

  Monday, August 1, 2011 — 8:45 pm

  Hi Ian, Your connection between the Avengers film and the Marvel films is really interesting. I'd disagree slightly with the terminology you use. The movies (more or less) are mirroring old 1960s-70s Marvel practice of creating a tight continuity bet ...
• Fieldguide
  Re: Technologies of the Book

  Media, Books, and Humans

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  Roger Whitson Washington State University

  Saturday, May 6, 2017 — 1:27 pm

  Thanks for this great post, Margaret. I really love this course and would love to see how you might teach a variation on the course at the undergraduate level.  I have a longer question about the centrality of textual studies approaches to archives in DH ...
• Fieldguide
  Re: On Sharing and Losing Control of an Online Persona

  Is there a real Mark Sample at all?

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  Roger Whitson Washington State University

  Friday, March 8, 2013 — 6:23 pm

  I have my doubts. I'm starting to question all the times I met his material self at THATCamp and MLA. Were those androids? Twitterbots? Archons of the demiurge?  I started thinking in the lines Jaime and Patrick brought up as well, since last night I ...
• #alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers
  Re: Toward a Third Way: Rethinking Academic Employment

  Re: Toward a Third Way: Rethinking Academic Employment

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  Roger Whitson Washington State University

  Monday, July 25, 2011 — 9:52 pm

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