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  Categorizing Manga by Standardizing the Paratext

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  Casey Brienza University of Cambridge

  April 02, 2010

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  text’s presence in the world, it’s ‘reception’ and consumption in the form (nowadays at least) of ...
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  I Liked the Movie, So What Comic Should I Read?

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  Greg M. Smith Georgia State University

  August 01, 2011

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  I Liked the Movie, So What Comic Should I Read? superheroes comics Comic Books and the Movies comic books Curator's Note When I try to introduce comics to non-comic-readers, I choose what I consider to be fairly straightforward modern comics, and fre ...
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  The Outrageous Origins of the Motion Comic!

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  August 04, 2011

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  2008, the Wall Street Journal reported that DC Comics would begin to utilize a "new kind of Web ...
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  What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from Marvel's Men

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  Kayley Thomas University of Florida

  May 11, 2012

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  What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from Marvel's Men women The Avengers participatory culture media studies kayley thomas gender fanvid fandom Fan Studies fan fiction comics Curator's Note Some might say The Avengers ’ record-breaking d ...
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  What’s the Point of a Reboot?, or, Waiting for Godot in a Comic Book Shop

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  August 07, 2012

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  books as 52 new #1 issues. Beginning in October, Marvel plans to relaunch some of its major properties ... that: “This ain’t a reboot. It’s a new beginning.” Comics fans are notoriously – and justifiably – loath ...
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  Flashback to the Episode: An Example of Intertextuality between Batman: The Animated Series and Batman and Robin Adventures

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  Fabian Grumbrecht Göttingen University

  February 06, 2015

  stressing within the dream/flashback that the villain starts to perceive his defeat as a new beginning and ...
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  Transgender Webcomics

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  September 02, 2017

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  the transgender narrative has a standard arc. Jay Prosser describes it as beginning in childhood with ...
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  Digital De-Aging in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  April 15, 2019

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  Digital De-Aging in the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU Marvel de-aging aging down digitally-augmented body comics Curator's Note Superhero comic book narratives are notorious for their convoluted time schemes, their constant resurrection of dead chara ...
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  New Nostalgia in “Watchmen”

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  Jade C. Huell California State University Northridge

  September 14, 2020

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  New Nostalgia in “Watchmen” watchmen nostalgia comics HBO Curator's Note Removed from the Watchmen universe and dropped into an edgy and dark contemporary context where racialized realities are front and center, HBO’s “Watchmen” shatters neo-liberal ...
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  Prelude to a Remix: Damon Lindelof’s Instagram Letter to Watchmen’s Wary Audience

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  Sarah Riddick Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  September 16, 2020

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  insights into his unyielding reverence for the original: “I am a twelve-year old” and am beginning my ...

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